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ASUS ROG ALLY Rog Ally Review
ASUS ROG ALLy handheld gaming PC is Here and in this video we get to see what the ALLy can do! Powered by the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Zen4 APU with RDNA3 Graphics! The ALLY also has the best screen we’ve seen in a handheld so far, 1080P, 120Hz and it supports Freesync! We do an unboxing, go over the specs, check out Armoury Crate SE and of course Test some AAA games on the ROG ALLy like The last of Us Part 1, Cyberpunk 2077, Spiderman Mile Morles, Warfare and Sky Rim at 120 FPS plus more! With a Price Tag Of $699 and a release date go June 13th this is going to be the handheld to get.
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Asus ROG Ally review: it’s time to stop pretending Windows is the answer
Windows handheld gaming PCs existed before the Deck, and there’s been a parade of them in the 15 months afterward. Some are more powerful. Many boast premium build quality. Almost all have higher-resolution screens. Yet none have offered the combination of battery life, portability, and price as Valve’s portable. I won’t bury the lede: the new Asus ROG Ally, officially shipping June 13th for $699.99, doesn’t change that as of today.
Don’t get me wrong: at $700, the Asus ROG Ally is a big step forward for Windows handhelds in important ways. It’s not just a little more powerful than the Steam Deck; the AMD Z1 Extreme handheld is significantly beefier, without being thicker or anywhere near as expensive as the Windows competition. I wish my Steam Deck would run anywhere near as quiet, and I wish it had the Ally’s variable refresh rate screen to make my games as smooth.
Seriously, it’s so smooth for a computer this small, and I’m not just talking about games that run at 120Hz. In my tests, the magic of variable refresh rate (VRR) and low frame compensation (LFC) works right down to 30fps.
You’re waiting for a “but,” right? Here are three to consider before you put down preorder cash today: 1) battery life; 2) glitches; and 3) how the Windows operating system — supposedly a plus! — hamstrings the handheld experience.
In fact, frankly, the ROG Ally has incredible range, letting you configure it all the way down to just 7W TDP or up to a boosted 35W TDP for short periods on a handheld battery pack. You can play at one speed to maximize your battery, another for Steam Deck-plus performance, another to play games the Steam Deck can’t quite run, and you can sometimes even get a small extra boost of speed by plugging in the bundled 65-watt USB-C power cord. If that’s not enough, it’s got a special port with eight
It’s not rocket science: Both the Steam Deck and the ROG Ally have the same battery capacity of 40 watt-hours. You probably know that means they can run at 40 watts for a single hour — or 20 watts for two hours, 10 watts for four hours, and so on. Except that, with the ROG Ally, four hours looks like the best you can bargain for. With the Steam Deck, the best-case scenario is closer to seven.#rogally#ASUS#Handheld
I did manage to sip just 9.8 watts of total system power in Slay the Spire, but that’s playing a 2D game with largely static images and every battery-saving measure turned on, including the lowest possible processor wattage, limited to 30fps, while playing at the minimum screen brightness in a dark room. And yet, my Ally actually turned itself off at three hours, 38 minutes, not four-plus hours, perhaps because Asus’ battery always seems to drain more quickly when it’s nearing its end.
On Steam Deck, meanwhile, the least demanding games consume as little as six watts (6.7 hours) on a charge, and I can usually manage two hours out of moderately intensive titles like Control with a tweak or two. With the Ally, I’m seeing an hour and a half. The PC port of PlayStation 2 title Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time consumed around 8.5 watts on the Deck and 12.5 watts on the Ally, to give you another point of comparison.
Note: Asus confirms will also sell a second version of the ROG Ally with a lower-end AMD Z1 processor for $600 in Q3. While we weren't given an opp to test, we do know it’s designed to run at the same wattages as the Z1 Extreme, so it’s likely not a silver bullet for battery.)
On the plus side, the ROG Ally is way faster to charge — I got 50 percent in 40 minutes while continuing to play. (It takes maybe 30 minutes if you leave it alone.) You can fill the system all the way to 97 or 98 percent with the bundled charger even if you’re playing games in Turbo mode, though it might take a couple of hours to do so.
And that Turbo mode is a secret weapon the Steam Deck can’t touch.
Right out of the box, the ROG Ally runs in “Performance” mode, which is slightly faster than the Steam Deck in exchange for somewhat more electricity, as I explain above. There, I feel comfortable games for less than an hour at a time, the “Turbo” mode puts games within reach that the Deck can barely play at
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