The most serious competitor of the Steam Deck from Valve, the ROG Ally benefits from a quality follow-up from its promoter.
Imperfect (it’s quite normal), the ROG Ally is still a very nice little machine. ASUS is making it a little more interesting with its latest update.
Focus on 15 W
The euphoria of the announcement passed, the ROG Ally enters a calmer phase which, we hope for ASUS, is also the sign of pre-orders which continue at a good pace.
Side figures, the Taiwanese firm is hardly talkative, and we have no information about the number of copies already reserved while the actual release should take place on June 13. On the other hand, we are delighted to see that the follow-up provided by ASUS does not seem to be contradicting itself, as explained to us by VideoCardz.
A new firmware for the ROG Ally has been released with the main objective of improving performance. More specifically, it is the low power modes (9 or 15 W) that have been improved when they were the weak point against the Steam Deck.
Performance up 15-20% at 720p
Relayed by our colleagues from VideoCardzthe measurements made by Dave2D on YouTube also confirm the much better behavior of the ROG Ally, which can boast of a performance increase of 15 to 20% in 720p.
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The three graphs that illustrate our news are also very clear, and on the majority of games, the 15 W mode allows the ROG Ally to take a very clear advantage over the Steam Deck while of course retaining the bonus what the 28 W mode represents.
In 9 W mode, the progress recorded on the ROG Ally is real, even if the Steam Deck retains the advantage here. That said, under such circumstances, none of the consoles measured by Dave2D are playable, whereas Forza Horizon 5 Or Horizon Zero Dawnfor example, are quite possible in 720p in 15 W mode.
Thanks to this firmware, AMD’s Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU (close to the Ryzen 7 7840U) is able to express its potential more clearly. On the other hand, we are concerned about the silence around the “non-extreme” Ryzen Z1 which must animate a less expensive variant of the ROG Ally.
Source : VideoCardz
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