ASUS ROG Ally has a lot to prove, and in order to better squeeze that potential, the Taiwanese giant of hardware components and devices has published a new firmware version that improves performance by up to 20%.
Going a little deeper into the new firmware for the ASUS ROG Ally, it is important to bear in mind that it only works if you have the most recent graphics drivers installed, the improvement in performance it provides is oriented mainly to low energy contexts, 9 and 15 watts specifically. We remind you that there are two variants of the console that use the existing AMD Ryzen Z1 APU models, but for now only the standard one has been marketed, while the Extreme is expected to become available from June 16.
He youtuber Dave2D has published a series of graphs in which you can see the performance level results of the new firmware compared to the previous one and running the games at 720p resolution on the standard variant of the console. Here you can see that the new version of the firmware brings a very notable improvement in terms of performance, between 15 and 20 percent, to place the ASUS ROG Ally at the same level as the AYANEO 2S, another x86 console that has the power by flag.
The Steam Deck has been left behind, but it is important to note that Valve’s device has a focus more on efficiency than raw power, apart from being an older technology when using an APU with architecture Zen 2 at the level of CPU and RDNA 2 for the integrated graphics. The Ryzen Z1s used by the ASUS ROG Ally variants are based on the Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures respectively.
When it comes to running games at 9 watts, the Steam Deck is still capable of showing some superiority and what’s more, Valve’s console is capable of running at 3 watts when running 2D isometric perspective games and they are quite light in terms of power. use of the machine’s hardware resources. With all the decades of existence of the video game industry, there are many titles that were technologically cutting-edge in their time, but that today can be moved in ultra quality even by very modest machines.
ASUS ROG Ally was released recently, so hopefully it still has ample room for improvement both at the level of firmware and drivers and operating system, and not only with regard to generating a greater number of images per second through, but also in a more efficient use of available resources, and that is that the autonomy offered by The battery is a very important point in these devices.
