A little over two months have passed since ASUS will announce, surprising us all, its ASUS ROG Allywith which the technology company decided to make the leap into a market, that of portable game consoles, which until about a couple of years ago seemed to be totally displaced from the spotlight, but which has since been revitalized and, to this day, today, it enjoys an effervescence and a rate of innovation that never cease to amaze us.
That ASUS chose April Fools’ to carry out the first announcement of its ASUS ROG Ally was, in my opinion, a fun and wise move at the same time, since it first made us think that it would be great if said device was real, only to confirm days later that it really was. And it is that its technical specifications made it clear to us, from the first moment, that the company’s intention is to compete at the top of the table, in which, according to these specifications, it is above the vast majority of devices at those who are facing
Let’s remember that, to command this ROG Ally, ASUS has opted for AMD Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme APUs, the latter being the first to hit the market. This integrated has a CPU of 8 cores / 16 threads and 24 megabytes of cache, capable of scaling up to 5.10 gigahertzalong with a Radeon GPU with architecture RDNA 3, 12 CUs, up to 2.7 gigahertz and up to 8.6 teraflops. AMD defines this Ryzen Z1 Extreme as the most powerful APU it has designed so far. This integration is based on 16 gigabytes of LPDDR5 RAM (6,400MT/s double channel) and 512 gigabytes of NVME PCIe 4.0 storage.
The visible face of the ASUS ROG Ally is a multitouch screen (10 simultaneous points) IPS level of 7 inches diagonally with full HD resolution (1,920 x 1,080, 16:9), 500 nits of brightness, a remarkable response time of 7 milliseconds and a refresh rate of 120 hertz. It allows to represent 100% of the sRGB color space and reaches up to 75.35% of AdobeRGB. In addition, to guarantee your safety, it is protected with Gorilla Glass DXC.
Regarding its controls, and as you can see in its images, the ASUS ROG Ally integrates everything you would expect and more:
- ABXY buttons
- D-pad
- Analog L and R triggers with Hall effect
- L and R stops
- view button
- menu button
- Command Center Button
- Armory Crate Button
- 2 x customizable grip buttons
- Thumbsticks: 2 x full-size analog sticks
- Haptics: HD haptics
- Gyro: 6 axis IMU
To ensure the best wireless connectivity, a key aspect for many games, ASUS ROG Ally offers Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2and all this set is fed with a 49 watt-hour battery capable of providing up to eight hours of autonomy, according to its manufacturer. And in case you’re wondering how portable this handheld console is, you’ll be surprised to learn that it weighs just 608 grams.
Thus, in summary, there are two things that we can affirm without fear of being wrong. The first is that ASUS demonstrates going all-out in the portable game console market, with a performance that has little or nothing to envy to more than a complete PC, but in a form factor that is especially suitable for gaming. And the second is that the ROG family of devices maintains the excellent level to which we are already accustomed.
The ASUS Rog Ally with AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU is now available on the ASUS website, and also in GAME stores, and its price is 799 euro. For its part, the model with Ryzen Z1 will arrive soon.
