Recently, a Thai influencer leaked the price of the Asus ROG Ally as well as new elements on its configuration. Today, it is a result on the Geekbench 5 OpenCL benchmark which suggests the possibilities of the portable console and its Ryzen Z1 APU.
The Benchmark page provides more information on the AMD Ryzen Z1 chip, a redesigned version of the Ryzen 7 7840U which equips the portable console from Asus. According to Geekbench, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme is equipped with 8 hyperthreaded cores (8C / 16T) having a base frequency of 3.3 GHz and can go up to 5.06 GHz depending on the conditions.
It’s also the first time we’ve come across the “Extreme” name, which could mean that a “non-Extreme” version would also be in the works, with a reduced price for players who don’t have need that much power.
On the performance side, the Asus ROG Ally achieved a score of 35,498 points, which positions the AMD APU between a GTX 1650 Max-Q achieving around 34,000 points and an RTX 2050 mobile around 39,000 points. These are GPUs cut to play in Full HD and which favor heat dissipation.
The graphics part of the Ryzen 7840U, from which the Ryzen Z1 is probably derived, had already stood out on Geekbench OpenCL with a score of 30,195. The Asus ROG Ally, carrying a revised version of the AMD chip, would therefore achieve a 17% performance gain. For our part, we tested the Ryzen 7 6800U with the Radeon 680M graphics part a few months ago and obtained a score of 31,283 under this same benchmark. We had also launched a few recent games under honorable conditions. It remains to be seen how the ROG Ally will behave in a real situation and what its autonomy will be.