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(Image credit: Future) What's inside the ROG Ally? The ROG Ally is fast, responsive, good-looking, and is a genuine gaming PC on the go. It's not quite cheap enough to be a companion to your high-end gaming PC, but it could easily replace a budget desktop machine, and maybe even a cheap gaming laptop. I'm a huge fan of the ROG Ally, and I really did not expect to be. You may get higher performance from a cheap RTX 3050 system priced only a little more than this, but you won't get the CPU performance, the same level of memory support, or the versatility of being able to take it anywhere. Because of its utility as a desktop gaming PC when docked to a monitor and peripherals, it's also arguably the best budget gaming PC you can buy today. And, on the whole, Asus has done an incredible job of making this desktop OS utterly usable on a handheld, largely because of what it has learnt from the Steam Deck, it must be said.īy pricing it at $699, just $50 more than the equivalent 512GB Steam Deck, Asus has effectively rendered the top spec Deck obsolete. Given how well it performs in general, however, that feels like a surmountable software problem than a fundamental issue. Neither LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga or Jedi: Survivor got anywhere near actually playable. And I had a few times where the GPU component of the chip wasn't doing its job in a particular game, and it would either crash or simply not perform.īasically, it really didn't like Star Wars.

Portable desktop clock driver#

No matter that it's running on Windows, without the need for Proton game support to circumvent Linux, you still need the driver software to be there. This is the only part of the picture where it feels like Asus has missed the mark, delivering gaming laptop-level battery life which isn't quite good enough in a genuine handheld. Testing Elden Ring on the ROG Ally even got me back into the game again because it was delivering such a good experience whether docked to my TV or in my hands.

Portable desktop clock 1080p#

Native 1080p gaming is absolutely possible if you drop it down to medium or low settings.

The 12 CU RDNA 3 GPU is also mighty impressive for an integrated GPU, too. That, along with its surfeit of DDR5 memory and PCIe 4.0 SSD, makes it a supremely responsive system and pleasure to use.

That AMD Z1 Extreme APU is a stunning piece of mobile silicon, with a CPU heart capable of easily outstripping modern Alder Lake Core i5 and Core i7 processors. The performance of the system itself is what sets it apart from Valve's inaugural handheld, though.