Friday, April 14th 2023
ASUS ROG Ally Could Launch Sooner Than Expected
ASUS is keeping the hype up for its upcoming ROG Ally handheld console, and now it has confirmed the worldwide release and teased that it could come sooner than anyone expected, which is pretty impressive. Announced on April 1st, the ASUS ROG Ally has impressive specifications, running on yet to be detailed AMD 4 nm custom APU based on Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU architecture.
The ASUS ROG Ally measures at 280 x 133 x 39 mm and weighs 608 grams, making it shorter, narrower, thinner, and lighter than its competitor, Valve's Steam Deck. It has a 7-inch display with 1920x1080 resolution, 120 Hz refresh rate, 5 ms response time, and 500 nits of brightness. According to earlier hands-on previews of the prototype from Dave2D and LinusTechTips, ASUS did a great job with the dual-fan cooling solution, making it very quite. It will also have a dedicated PCIE Gen 3 x8 XG connector, which allows it to connect to the recently launched XG Mobile GPU, an external RTX 4090 GPU which retails at $1999.99 in the US. Linus also noted that the ROG Ally will offer 50 percent higher performance at 15 W and twice the performance at 35 W, compared to the Steam Deck. As noted, ASUS has now confirmed that the ROG Ally will launch worldwide, and that it might be sooner that we expect, linking to Best Buy for those that live in North America.
Sources:
ASUS ROG Twitter, via Videocardz
The ASUS ROG Ally measures at 280 x 133 x 39 mm and weighs 608 grams, making it shorter, narrower, thinner, and lighter than its competitor, Valve's Steam Deck. It has a 7-inch display with 1920x1080 resolution, 120 Hz refresh rate, 5 ms response time, and 500 nits of brightness. According to earlier hands-on previews of the prototype from Dave2D and LinusTechTips, ASUS did a great job with the dual-fan cooling solution, making it very quite. It will also have a dedicated PCIE Gen 3 x8 XG connector, which allows it to connect to the recently launched XG Mobile GPU, an external RTX 4090 GPU which retails at $1999.99 in the US. Linus also noted that the ROG Ally will offer 50 percent higher performance at 15 W and twice the performance at 35 W, compared to the Steam Deck. As noted, ASUS has now confirmed that the ROG Ally will launch worldwide, and that it might be sooner that we expect, linking to Best Buy for those that live in North America.
43 Comments on ASUS ROG Ally Could Launch Sooner Than Expected
too rich for my blood.
For ASUS "Competitive with the Steam Deck" means that since it's x2 as powerful they can charge twice as much and be thankful they aren't adding any extra in other concepts.
So $700-1000 usd is my guess
that being said, if this comes in at $649 and has zen 4 and RDNA 3... I will be a little sad... double the price, but also much much better quality. 1080p 120hz in this form factor would be awesome too...
I wonder if you can put Steam OS on this little device... or if you are forced to use WIn 11...
His is loud unless capped at 30fps in most games although that's probably subjective to the user.
Unless it's a physically bigger device (which hurts its portability) the screen resolution doesn't need to increase, nor do we need 120Hz because that's just going to kill runtimes. I run most AAA games at 12W and 48Hz just to push battery life to 3h - finished Dishonored 2 on a 4h train journey last weekend and had I been pulling 25W at full power, full brightness, 60Hz, I'd have been out of battery in 100 minutes.
Realistically I think the deck could benefit from a slightly bigger battery, and a more efficient APU on 4nm wouldn't hurt, but anything that pushes the price too high will be more of a detriment than a benefit. Where the deck excels is emulation of much older titles, anyway.
well that would also mean 25% more on the 799, since i never see other countries pricing or MSRP ;) (unless exceptional situation happens like whith my 6700 XT )
but i would prefer that one over the steamdeck ... due to analog stick placement being as they are.
I'm saying this as a lover of the XB360 and XBOne gamepads, which have the opposite left-side layout to the Steam Deck.
Clearly, it's all about relative position to the sculpting of the grips, and also YMMV based on the size of your hands. I can one-hand catch a basketball though so any controllers look like children's versions around me....
that is really my only complaint with steam deck though. the actual placement of the sticks I agree with you on, the steam deck is just made for adult hands, so damn comfortable.
I found myself using the trackpads to move the cursor instinctively whenever the in-game crosshair became a cursor, and that happens occasionally even in the most console-y games in my library.
The fact they're there doesn't mean you have to use them, and I don't think their placement displaces the other controls significantly. That's just me though....