Asus Rog Ally: games, prices and technical sheet, here is everything you need to know

Thus under the thermal camera, the hottest parts are obviously the aeractions with nearly 63 ° C recorded on the radiator. We are however closer to 54 ° C on the ventilation itself. Note that these values ​​are maximum measured in turbo mode.
The rest of the console is however kept cool, especially in the palms of hands, triggers and other pimples. Your hands will not suffer from the heat in play.

Rog Ally test: the portable console that takes itself for a gaming pc

Under its air of a portable console, the Rog Ally wants to be a portable gaming pc rather. Operating under Windows 11, she is just as capable of launching Cyberpunk 2077, A Nintendo gamecube emulator or (theoretically) the Office suite.

Presentation

On April 1, Rog surprised his world by revealing his Ally portable console, a real little technological gem boosted with hormones. Thought to run the latest most demanding games as effectively as possible, she has an APU Ryzen Z1, a variation of the Ryzen Zen4, with the Graphic Part Radeon 780m based on the RDNA3 architecture. Armed with 16 GB of RAM (which is found in a good laptop gamer) and 512 GB for storage, the Rog Ally treats her technical sheet as much as she flats the retina with her IPS screen (1920 x 1080 px ) clocked at 120 Hz whose response time would not exceed 7 ms. In short, on paper, the machine seems ready to delight the most demanding nomadic gamers who would like to embark on a Forza Horizon 5 in high resolution with all the details pushed at the bottom of a journey between Le Creusot and Dijon. We were able to use the beast for a few weeks, and here are our conclusions, between high -flying performance and frustrations.

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Ergonomics

ROG Ally cannot deny its origins. Republic of Gamers being the Gaming branch of Asus, it would have been surprising not to see her wear this little touch geek specific to the laptop dedicated to the game.

Even if it is much more discreet than a computer like the MSI Raider Ge68 HX, the manufacturer could not help but stick the inevitable RGB functionality (here around the sticks), the designer air outlets, Decorating streaks encrusted in the plastic of the shell as well as some small holographic parts. The back of the Ally is, moreover, as such, quite representative since the ventilation gowns alongside the largest holographic band take up the form of the ROG logo.

Maybe it is to mark its difference with the steam deck, but Rog has chosen a white color. Even taking care not to dirty it, this immaculate dress may quickly lose its superb and to see the countless interstices getting craft, especially with users who tend to have their hands moist. Good point, the plastics used seem solid and the texture of the handles limits the risks of seeing the ally escape from the unpleasant hands.

The ROG Ally accommodates two analog sticks placed in an assymmetrical way, as can be recognized on an official Xbox controller. The manufacturer has chosen quite conventional analog sticks which can be subject to the phenomenon of Drift: the neutral position of the sticks is no longer recognized and this leads to involuntary movements at stake. We would have preferred hall effect sticks (which, theoretically, cannot undergo this type of dysfunction), especially since the replacement may be most complicated.

The rest of the interface on the facade consists of the four action buttons (A, B, X, Y), also classic as possible, of four keys of function and a directional cross -plastic cross which attracts and retains fingerprints (inch in this case) with disconcerting ease. Let’s just be, it is still relatively precise, even if some diagonals could have come out better; Watch out for 1v1 fighting games.

During our various game sessions, we noticed that the location of the right stick could sometimes be problematic to press two buttons simultaneously, particularly the combination of the X and A keys and a. Certainly, it is not the most used, but it happens.

On the upper facade, we are entitled to four triggers (LB LT on the left, RB RT on the right): two digital and two analogs. The racing length of these last two seemed comfortable enough to manage accelerations or braking in racing games. Finally, ROG has planned two last keys on the back of the Ally, just to multiply the inputs and make life in play in play.

Overall, the Rog Ally is rather comfortable to use, much more in any case than a steam deck which remains its main competitor. However, the differences are not so numerous since the deck is more long than two centimeters for example. The weight gap does not explain this better feeling: 675 grams for the Steam console, 612 g for that of ROG. The explanation may be to be found on the side of the handles, less marked on the Ally.

Rog Ally’s connection is limited to the congruent portion. On the upper edge, there is a 3.5 mm jack port (to avoid audio latency), the port to connect a possible external xg mobile graphics card. Finally a USB-C socket at the USB 3 standard.2 Gen2 (10 Gb/s) which can be used for recharging, to connect external screen in DisplayPort 1.4 or any other accessory using this type of connection.

Obviously, the facade is occupied by the 7 -inch tactile ips slab to which we will come back in more detail. Nevertheless, the upper and lower edges seemed to us very wide, necessarily cutting in the display size.

Finally, a last word on accessories. In addition to the console, the box contains a charger and a cardboard display to the glory of Rog to put the machine next to the TV or on the desktop. Given the price of the beast, we would have appreciated a rigid transport case (supplied with the steam deck by the way) or, at least, a flexible cover.

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Software handling

Since its revelation on April 1, 2023, ROG presents the Ally as a portable console but we are rather in front of a portable gaming pc whose main bone is Windows 11. Consequently, even if the manufacturer has tried to simplify the grip with a few tips such as the Armoury Crate SE software, we are very far from the simplicity of using a real console like Switch, for example.

Because if Windows 11 ensures an almost unlimited compatibility for games designed for the PC, but also for certain titles exclusive to the consoles-thank you to the emulators-, it is often necessary to put your hands in silica (failing the cump cump) to configure everything That, if only to develop a comfortable configuration of the buttons in a given game. The Rog Ally is therefore intended for hackers, who will not be afraid to lower the frequency of this, to modify the display distance of this, to deactivate anti -aliasing (staircase effect) or on the contrary to engage it for this or that title. in order to play in comfortable conditions or, at least, which suit them.

To simplify things a bit, as we have said, ROG has equipped the Ally with its Armoury Crate over. This one is displayed by pressing the dedicated key, placed to the right of the screen. We then have a slightly more interface User-friendly For console players thanks to the game and applications library, especially. Armoury Crate also offers a quick configuration tab that brings together the most useful functions in play, such as operating mode (windows, silent, manual turbo performance), Bluetooth or wifi connection. More anecdotal, it is also at this place that we can configure the RGB features of analog sticks and even deactivate them (phew phew !)).

To modify certain parameters in a even more reactive way, Armoury Cutte allows the user to create shortcuts for several features, grouped under the tab. The latter opens up the key on the button on the left of the screen. You can therefore fit Pell-mell, the screen luminosity adjustment, the screen cooling rate, the choice of performance mode, etc. Thanks to the touch screen, each parameter is easily changed before returning to the game and achieving what these settings have changed.

Pure and hard pisists can use their Rog Ally as a real Windows 11 PC, with an office, a configuration panel and tutti quanti. We can simulate the use of a mouse with the right stick; A support on the latter corresponds to a left click. For the right stick, you will have to press the RB trigger. But all this is hardly practical and we will prefer to fall back on the touch features of the screen in this eventuality.

In fact, the easiest way is to mix all these control modes a little and, for example, to use tactile features even if the ROG Ally turns lovey crate. In any case, a certain adaptation will need before mastering the machine on your fingertips. It makes the charm of the Rog Ally. Inevitably, this hyper-personalization of the machine makes the console much less intuitive than a Switch Lite for example and we will therefore hesitate to put it in the hands of users little comfortable with this type of configuration, children in particular.

Windows obliges, the multitasking is an integral part of the experience and it sometimes happens that a completely independent program of the game turning on the background in the background. Therefore, some resources are used, which can directly impact performance. We met this pitfall, especially with Steam, who was updating during our game session.

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Performance

Games and performance

The Asus Rog Ally sold in France takes on an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor accompanied by 16 GB of video memory and an SSD of 512 GB. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme is a processor specially designed for portable consoles, it shares the same base as the Ryzen 7 7840U with a wider power range allowing it to operate at 9 watts.

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AMD reveals the Ryzen Z1 processors of the Rog Ally and their performances in play

On the sidelines of the announcement of the Rog Ally d’Asus, AMD has formalized its series of Z1 processors for PC consoles. The Ryzen Z1 and.

We therefore submitted the Ryzen Z1 Extreme of the Rog Ally to the same protocol as laptops.

The Rog Ally equipped with its Ryzen Z1 Extreme obtains a performance index of 147, which places it between a Samsung Book3 Pro 360 and its Core i7-1360p (121) and the Core i5-13450HX of the Asus Rog Stix G16 (165). The Rog Ally is especially much more efficient than the Ryzen 5,5600h integrated in the HP Victus 15 and many other gaming laptops.

To assess the performances at stake of the ROG Ally and its graphic part, we have submitted it to our usual gaming panel in Full HD with the details of the games set at least. The graphic part is integrated into the processor and is made up of 12 AMD RDNA3 calculation units. For comparison, the dedicated Graphics Card Amd RX 7900 XTX has 96 of these RDNA3 units.

On our gaming panel, the Rog Ally in weak detail has no trouble holding a framerate close to 50 i/s according to the games. Some less gourmet or optimized games like forza Horizon 5 even allow you to go up in detail while remaining close to the 60 i/s.

Screen

Asus has chosen a 7 -inch 16/9 screen with IPS technology. If the Taiwanese has been satisfied with this technology, it is that it preferred the responsiveness of an IPS panel operating at 120 Hz, a characteristic which does not currently exist in OLED according to the manufacturer’s saying.

The definition of the 7 -inch slab is also amendment since it displays 1920 x 1080 pixels. A definition which is both an advantage since the game graphics executed in this definition will be finer, but also a major drawback: it takes a significant graphic power in order to make games in 1080p.

Another important point for this portable console, the screen benefits from two treatments from Corning Glass, one for the resistance of the screen and the second for reflections.

Under the probe with the default setting, the slab is particularly faithful since the delta E is less than 3 (threshold beyond which the drifts are visible to the naked eye) with exactly 1.6. The temperature is a little high with 7302K, a slightly high value and therefore a slightly cold rendering of colors . To get closer to the ideal value of 6,500k, you have to go to Armoury Crate to reduce the temperature, however, no graduation is present on the setting bar. Finally, the contrast rate is 1217: 1, this is the average raised on the IPS tiles and it is on this point that we regret the absence of the OLED which offers almost unlimited contrasts and Unparalleled depth of black.

On the reactivity side, the 120 Hz IPS slab does not disappoint, we have thus measured a remanence of 8 ms. Which places the Rog Ally at the same level as the best gaming laptops who manage to descend below the 7 ms mark. By way of comparison we had measured the steam deck at 20 ms.

The maximum brightness is 493 cd/m2, if this value is in the high range for a laptop, it is relatively low for a device intended to evolve outside. Thus the best smartphones can reach up to 1300 cd/m2 to ensure visibility in the most extreme light conditions.

Fortunately, the ROG Ally screen has an effective anti -reflective treatment thus under our reflectometer The percentage of reflected light is only 23.3 %. According to our findings in real situations, it is thus possible to play outdoors even in full sun, it will however be much more pleasant to find a shadow to play in a comfortable way.

Audio

For the audio part, Asus has placed its two speakers on the facade thus facing the user. The manufacturer has studied their positioning well since the hands once in position do not come to cover them.

Listening, the rendering is equivalent to that of a mobile phone. A slight box effect is heard and the whole lacks serious, nothing amazing given the size of the machine.
Thanks to their positioning, stereophony is well rendered and perfectly noticeable . The maximum volume is more than enough in order to take advantage of its games in good conditions and the distortion at high volume is contained.

However if you want to take full advantage of your games you will have to put on your headphones. In Bluetooth and adorned with our Sony XF-1000m3 headphones, the latency is limited allowing you to enjoy the most nervous games. However, the most demanding players will use a wired helmet.

Asus Rog Ally	Average PC tested
Output level	97 mvrms	161 mvrms
Distortion+noise	0.016 %	0.016 %
Dynamic	104 dB	99 dB
Diaphony	-43 dB	-64 dB

Heated

With its extreme Ryzen Z1 and its thermal envelope varying from 9 to 30 W, we could have feared that the Rog Ally turns into a hot water bottle at the slightest stress. This is not the case and the opposite would have been particularly disappointing on the part of Asus which benefits from all its experience on laptops and more particularly gaming models.
Two fans and a capacity are responsible for evacuating the calories of the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, the air is thus sucked in the back of the console and rejected above the console.

Thus under the thermal camera, the hottest parts are obviously the aeractions with nearly 63 ° C recorded on the radiator. We are however closer to 54 ° C on the ventilation itself. Note that these values ​​are maximum measured in turbo mode.
The rest of the console is however kept cool, especially in the palms of hands, triggers and other pimples. Your hands will not suffer from the heat in play.

Noise

The noise pollution of the console are limited to say the least. In silent mode, the Rog Ally goes unnoticed with 32.8 dB measured. It begins to be heard with a slight breath in performance mode with 33.2 dB. Turbo mode is logically the most vindictive with 36.9 dB, which remains much lower than that of the steam deck raised at 41 dB.

In any case and even in turbo mode you will not bother your traveling companion whether by train or by car, on the other hand if you are a fan of the game in your bed your half can blame you for your rog ally whatever either the mode.

Autonomy

Asus did not communicate during its presentation on a precise autonomy measure, limiting itself to announce a autonomy similar to its direct competitor Steamdeck. And for good reason the ROG Ally has a 40 Wh battery is the same capacity as the steam deck.
In practice in a recent 3D game with an unlimited image rate, the Rog Ally can last a little more than an hour and thirty minutes in Performance mode. If you want to increase the autonomy we advise you to block the number of images per second to 30 i/s, to pass the slab in 60 Hz and reduce the brightness of the screen obviously more a game requires more resource autonomy will be reduced and in particular if you have set a target framerate.
Anyway if you have planned a trip, we advise you to board the 65 W USB-C charger supplied all the more as it is relatively compact. Only defect its cable is not detachable, it will therefore be necessary to take care of it.

Asus Rog Ally: games, prices and technical sheet, here is everything you need to know

Asus Rog Ally is a portable console under Windows 11 which wants to compete with the steam deck. It has an AMD Zen 4 RDNA 3 processor, a 7-inch full HD screen and a USB-C port. Here is all you need to know.

• �� What is the Rog Ally ?
• �� Asus Rog Ally: What release date ?
• �� Asus Rog Ally: What price ?
• ⚒️ Asus Rog Ally: What technical sheet ?
• �� What is the design of the Asus Rog Ally ?
• �� What are the performances of the Asus Rog Ally ?
• �� Asus Rog Ally vs steam deck: what differences ?
• �� Asus Rog Ally vs Nintendo Switch: what differences ?

�� What is the Rog Ally ?

Asus Rog Ally is A portable game console which works under Windows 11. His goal is to compete with the Steam Deck console. The idea, according to Asus, is to create A console capable of playing all PC games With a loyalty greater than that of Steam Deck in a Windows environment. Other features:

• A, b, x, y buttons
• D-PAD
• Analog triggers Hall Effect L&R
• Bumpers l & r
• View button
• Menu button
• Command Center button
• Armoury Crate button
• 2 assignable grip buttons
• Full -sized analog joysticks (2) with capacitive tactile function
• HAPTIC HD
• 6 -axis gyroscope IMU
• Noise reduction technology AI
• Hi-Res certification
• Support for Dolby Atmos
• Integrated microphone with noise cancellation technology
• Audio system with 2 speakers with Smart Amplifier Technology

The Rog Ally console of course includes buttons A, B, X, Y, a directional cross, L&R analog triggers, navigation buttons, but also, an audio system with noise removal technology by artificial intelligence, a 40 WHRS battery, an integrated fingerprint sensor, and more.

Asus’ last portable console also has a multitude of ports and system controls. She takes advantge a 3.5 mm mini-jack headset, a UHS-II microSD location and a USB-C port which also connects to the ASUS ROG XG Mobile external GPU.

In addition to the console itself, the box also contains a 65 watt adapter which loads the ally via USB-C, which will have an additional USB-A port and will also serve HDMI output. Thus, the adapter provided in the box can also work as a kind of reception station.

The console is white in color. It is made with high quality materials to ensure increased durability and resistance: Gorilla Glass DXC and Gorilla Glass Victus protective glasses for the 7 -inch touch screen. The latter is surrounded by relatively fine borders to maximize the display space and offer a good gaming experience.

The console has a customizable RGB backlight, allowing you to choose from a wide range of light effects and colors to customize the appearance of the console according to the preferences.

�� What are the performances of the Asus Rog Ally ?

A recent geekbench list has confirmed this information and also provided an overview of the Rog Ally performance. She gets An impressive score of 35,498 in the OpenCl benchmark De Geekbench, with performance similar to those of other GPUs Radeon 780m. According to a previous leakage, the portable console should compete with a GTX 1650 Max-Q, thus placing it in front of its competitors, such as the Steam Deck.

In addition, the list reveals that the frequency in Boost of the CPU of Asus Rog Ally is set to 5.0 GHz for a 15 Watts chip. It’s impressive, but to run your FHD screen at 120 FPS, the portable console will need maximum calculation power.

Since Ally turns on Windows 11, the user is not limited to specific games and applications as is the case for the Steam Deck. You can therefore run titles from other publishers and stores, such as EA Play, Epic Games, Xbox and, of course, Steam.

The console is much quieter than the steam deck, which, in all honesty, can become quite noisy with the most demanding titles. During the tests led by Dave2D, the noise of the Asus Rog Ally fan reached 20 dB, while the steam deck arrived at 37 dB. As the measurement of decibels is logarithmic, it is a huge disparity.

Still according to Dave2D, the firmware update has made the Asus Rog Ally much more powerful than the steam deck. Deployed on May 30, this update would have enabled performance earnings of around 20% in certain games, allowing it to reach 60 IPS in Red Dead Redemption 2 in 720p. Not enough to compete with a real gaming pc, but still respectable.

�� Asus Rog Ally vs steam deck: what differences ?

The Rog Ally and the Steam Deck are two portable consoles focused on the game, but they have some notable differences in terms of characteristics and functionalities. Here is an overview of the differences between the two:

Operating system :

• ROG Ally: Works under Windows 11 Home.
• Steam Deck: works under Steamos, a personalized version of Linux designed specifically for Steam Games.

Processor and graphics card:

• Use an APU AMD Ryzen ™ Z1 Extreme based on Zen 4 architecture with an AMD Radeon ™ Graphics graphics card based on RDNA ™ 3 architecture.
• Steam deck: uses a personalized chip of APU AMD Zen 2 with an AMD RDNA 2 graphics card.

Screen :

• 7 -inch touch screen with a FHD resolution (1920 x 1080) and a 120 Hz refresh rate.
• Steam Deck: 7 -inch touch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and a refresh rate of 60 Hz.

Controls:

• Has standard play buttons, a directional cross, analog triggers, analog sticks and assignable buttons.
• Steam Deck: Has standard play buttons, a directional cross, analog triggers, analog sticks, capacitive trackpads and touchpad buttons.

Connectivity:

• Supports 6th Wi-Fi (802.11AX) and Bluetooth 5.2.
• Steam Deck: supports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11AX) and Bluetooth 5.0.

Storage :

• Has a 512 GB SSD in M ​​format.2 NVME ™ PCIe® 4.0.
• Steam Deck: offers different storage options, including 64 GB EMMC, 256 GB NVME SSD and 512 GB NVME SSD.

Game ecosystem:

• Compatible with a wide range of Windows PC games, including those available on game distribution platforms such as Steam, Epic Games Store, etc.
• Steam Deck: focused on the Steam ecosystem, offering direct access to the Steam game library.

One of the most important aspects that distinguishes the two devices is the operating system. The steam deck uses Steamos, while the Rog Ally uses Windows 11. Although Steamos offers an easy -to -use interface for portable games, it is still in its infancy and does not allow you to play certain games, including games on other marketplaces than Steam.

On the other hand, Windows 11 allows you to play games in other stores. However, Windows 11 is a complete operating system, with a lot of overload which can potentially reduce the life of the Ally battery life.

However, if you happened to you with one of the components of the Rog Ally, you have to keep in mind that the Asus Rog Ally is easier to repair than the steam deck. In a short YouTube video, the IFIXIT service has made a complete depiauting of the device, showing that disassembly of its parts is much easier, as well as their replacement.

If you want to go even further in the comparison of the two portable consoles, we put them face to face in an epic fight in this summary entitled “Asus Rog Ally vs Steam Deck: What portable console to choose ?». After reading it, you will really have a clear heart.

�� Asus Rog Ally vs Nintendo Switch: what differences ?

The Rog Ally and the Nintendo Switch are two portable game consoles, but they have really significant differences. The Rog Ally has an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor with Zen 4 architecture, offering much higher performance compared to the Tegra processor used in the Nintendo Switch.

The Rog Ally is delivered with Windows 11 Home, while the Nintendo Switch works under the Nintendo owner operating system. This means that the ROG Ally offers compatibility with a wide range of Windows software and applications, offering something more versatile overall.

Of course, the Nintendo Switch benefits from a large ecosystem of exclusive games developed by Nintendo, with Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, etc. franchises, etc. These games are only available at Big N. On the other hand, the ROG Ally provides access to a greater variety of games from different platforms, including PC games, thanks to Windows 11.

The Nintendo Switch offers an online subscription service, the Nintendo Switch Online, which offers online multiplayer features, free monthly games and other advantages. In comparison, the ROG Ally offers standard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity features, but it does not have a specific online subscription service for games, at least, not yet.

The Nintendo Switch benefits from a wide range of official accessories, such as additional controllers, reception stations, protection cases, etc., which are specifically designed for the console. On the other hand, the Rog Ally also offers accessories, but they can be more oriented towards traditional gaming PC accessories, such as keyboards, mice, etc.

Finally, the Nintendo Switch is finally generally offered at a much lower price compared to the Rog Ally. We find the Nintendo console between 250 and 350 €, against € 799.99 for that of Asus. It is neither the same public nor the same budget.