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Asus ROG Ally Detailed Specs And Pricing Officially Confirmed
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Asus has finally revealed the full specs list and pricing details for its ROG Ally handheld gaming PC.
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The AMD Zen4 device comes as a direct challenger to Valve’s Steam Deck offering an impressive package for gaming on the go.
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ROG Ally features a 7-inch IPS LCD display with FHD resolution, a 16:9 aspect ratio, and a 120Hz refresh rate.
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The panel cranks out up to 500 nits of brightness and is protected by Gorilla Glass Victus.
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Asus claims a 7ms response time and 100% coverage of the sRGB color space.
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ROG Ally comes with two chipset versions – AMD’s new Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme chips.
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Z1 features six-core Zen 4 CPU with twelve threads while the GPU side is covered by four RDNA 3 cores.
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Z1 Extreme packs an eight-core Zen 4 CPU with sixteen threads and twelve RDNA 3 GPU cores with 24MB cache.
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You can hook up an external GPU with the console supporting up to ROG XG Mobile which packs a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU.
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Both ROG Ally models get 16GB LPDDR5 dual-channel memory and 256/512GB PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD of the 2230 size.
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You also get a 40Wh battery pack with up to two hours of endurance in heavy gaming titles ran under the 15W performance mode.
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Asus added dual fans and a copper heat pipe to help with cooling. The console ships with a 65W PD charger.
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ROG Ally features an aluminum chassis and weighs 608 grams.
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It runs full-fledged Windows 11 Home with a special edition of Asus Armoury Crate on top.
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You are able to run Xbox Game Pass and you get a three-month trial with each ROG Ally purchase.
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You can also run games from any other major game launcher and game streaming services.
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For controls, ROG Ally offers two analog thumb sticks with capacitive touch and RGB lighting, a D-pad, ABXY buttons, left and right Hall Effect triggers and bumpers as well as two assignable grip buttons on the back.
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In terms of I/O, you get a Type-C combo port with support for USB 3.2 Gen2, and a port for connecting external GPUs as well as a microSD card slot that supports up to UHS-II cards and a headphone/mic combo jack.