ASUS ROG Ally Pricing Leaks, Setting Up A Steam Deck Showdown

One space specifically the place the ROG Ally seems to be forward of the Steam Deck is uncooked processing energy, particularly when factoring within the asking worth of the 2 handhelds. The Steam Deck’s AMD processor depends on 4 Zen 2 items, whereas the graphics engine can also be primarily based on the older Zen 2 structure. 

For comparability, the Asus ROG Ally comes armed with the brand new Zen 4-based AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Excessive processors, each of that are primarily based on the 4nm course of and can reportedly arrive on extra gaming handhelds down the highway.

The Excessive variant provides eight AMD Zen 4 processing cores and 16 threads, coupled with 24MB of cache reminiscence and 12 AMD RDNA3 pc items for graphics processing. The usual AMD Z1 processor provides six cores, 12 threads, 4 RDNA3-based compute items, and 22MB cache house. After all, we’re speaking about leaks right here, so course of the pricing info with a good dose of skepticism.

Asus will announce official particulars in regards to the pricing and availability particulars for the ROG Ally at an occasion on Could 11 — beginning at 10:00 a.m. EST. As for AMD, the corporate will not affirm if, or when, the Z1 collection processors are anticipated to look in additional gaming handhelds. Nonetheless, rumors declare that the likes of Ayaneo are prepping new machines primarily based on AMD’s silicon — additional including competitors for the Steam Deck.