It had to happen, ASUS has just lifted the veil on its ROG Ally, an overpowered portable console that puts the mash on the Steam Deck.
Valve’s Steam Deck has some issues. Indeed here comes the time of the ASUS ROG Ally. A console that aims to directly compete with the creation of Valve. It must be said that this new product has strong arguments in its favour, in particular thanks to very well made and particularly powerful hardware. See instead.
Rog Ally ou Steam Deck ?
At first we find in the heart of the ASUS Rog Ally a six-core AMD Ryzen Z1 chip and an RDNA 3 graphics chip, which uses AMD’s Super Resolution FidelityFX and Super Resolution scaling technologies. Just there, in terms of powerful brute, we are well in front of a Steam Deck. Besides, people who have had the opportunity to test it are already announcing 50% more power compared to the Steam Deck. It’s enormous as it is for equal consumption. A real tour de force from the Taiwanese manufacturer. ASUS is already promising Cyberpunk 2077 in good conditions at 60 FPS. Sign of his omnipotence.
For display, the ROG Ally has a screen Full HD 120 Hz (alas without OLED) seven-inch capable of displaying up to 500 Nits of brightness with a response time of 7 ms. ASUS wanted to favor the reactivated (120 Hz) since there is currently no 7-inch OLED panel. To accompany the GPU and CPU there is 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM. Not bad is not it ? The Rog Ally also announces support for Dolby Atmos via the speakers to have audio that matches the rendering of the screen. The whole package has a total weight of only 608 g.
Le ROG Ally bat le Steam Deck
As for storage, the ROG Ally will come with un SSD de 512 Go, which can be further expanded with a microSD card. For the rest of the proposals, while the Steam Deck uses its own SteamOS as the default operating system, the ROG Ally will allow users to access games from a wide variety of PC platforms because it works on windows 11. You should be able to use all of your PC accessories, including controllers, headphones, mice, and keyboards. Great news.
Finally, the console uses a custom-designed cooling system, which Asus says is quiet and barely noticeable when using the ROG Ally speakers. We know ASUS on the very serious subject of cooling and it’s hard to have any doubts on this side.
The Rog Ally: the summary of its technical characteristics
In summary, we find:
- Screen : 7 inch 1080p 120Hz touch screen and 7ms response time with FreeSync
- Weight : 608 g
- Processor : AMD Ryzen Z1 series
- GPU (graphics) : RDNA 3
- Storage : SSD PCI Express 4.0 de 512 Go
- RAM : 16 Go to RAM
- MicroSD slot for storage expansion
- WiFi 6E
- Windows 11 operating system
- Haptic feedback
- Fingerprint sensor for unlocking
ASUS ROG Ally, what price?
Regarding the price, Asus has not yet confirmed the sale price of the ROG Ally, but the company has guaranteed that it will not exceed $1000. We hope it will be the same story in euros. The Steam Deck is offered to him at 679 euros in its most expensive version.
