ASUS ROG Ally, twice the power of the Steam Deck. 120Hz, 500 nits.
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arandomguy
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Looking at Steam Deck numbers with SteamOS vs Windows would likely be more telling. From what I remember the results could be rather mixed, as in some games actually did perform better.
In terms of SteamOS on the RoG Ally there's a few issues. The SteamOS version available to the Steam Deck isn't actually publicly available. SteamOS on the Steam Deck also has specific optimizations for the Steam Deck and provisions for more hardware access/control which would not be the case for the RoG Ally.
new revolutionary software for the Asus Rog Ally, the Handheld companion, which adds functionality for the built-in gyroscope, better power management with Auto-TDP (you can lock the framerate of the Asus to run games at 30fps all the time in case you need the battery, so it only uses the necessary power to achieve 30fps), Xbox or PS controller emulation..., and all of that for 2€.
taking into account that the Asus RoG Ally has two version, one featuring the AMD Ryzen Z1 with 2,8 teraflops of processing power, and the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme version, with 8,6 teraflops, how is that the performance difference isn't a 250-300% faster on the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme compared to the Z1, but a mere 30% to 50% faster?
Memory Bandwidth bottlenecks.
arandomguy
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My guess also is that effective clocks might be higher on the Z1 vs Extreme, so the actual theoretical tflop gap (from clockspeeds) in typical usage might be lower than implied. You might even have the odd edge case as with the Farcry 6 result in which the Z1 is faster, somewhat akin to that PS5/XSX discussion in which the PS5's GPU is actually faster in some aspects due to the higher clocks despite much less compute throughput from being much less wide. Also what might be interesting is if the Z1 non extreme might effectively have more cache available to the GPU due to less contention from the 2 less CPU cores.
But with the above it's worth noting that looking at averages can be misleading in many cases. We do see some results in which the Extreme really pulls aside as it should on paper, especially with RDR2.
But with the above it's worth noting that looking at averages can be misleading in many cases. We do see some results in which the Extreme really pulls aside as it should on paper, especially with RDR2.