![]() ![]() Hooking the Ally to power unlocks an even better mode, which allows you to set the Z1 Extreme Chip to 30W, which gives you even more performance. You can toggle between several presets on this - or choose wattages by yourself: a silent mode at 9 watts, a performance mode at 15 watts, and a turbo mode at 25 watts. Remember that name, as we will see that one appear in many more handhelds in the future. In the laptop world, it is comparable to the AMD 7840U. It is of a newer generation than the custom-made chip - also by AMD by the way - found in the Steam Deck. This is all made possible by the Z1 Extreme, an AMD chip custom-made for the Ally. Games on the Ally, for the most part, just perform better than on the Steam Deck. So this means that you can either play games at a higher resolution, at higher settings, at a higher refresh rate or all of that combined. ![]() It’s only on lower wattages where the Steam Deck prevails, but more about that in a second. When setting both devices to 15 watts, the ROG Ally outperforms the Steam Deck even on an older BIOS settings.Īs you can see when setting both devices to 15 watts, the ROG Ally outperforms the Steam Deck by about 10 to 20 percent. Also, check his channel for all the other benchmarks. But my friend Cary aka ThePhawx, gave me access to these graphs, which I feel is probably the most important one. ASUS ROG Ally: The XGm proprietary port (in black) for the XG Mobile eGPU Unfortunately, you can't use any other eGPU with this device, but at least when it comes to the USB-C plug alongside it, you can use any other peripherals like chargers, docks or external SSDs as you'd expect. Regarding that proprietary 'XGm' port/connection (see image below): It is with this that you can use the ASUS external eGPU enclosure, the XG Mobile. Holding one of the back buttons and clicking D-Pad Up will, for example, show the keyboard on Windows 11.Īs for ports, the Ally has a microSD port that supports UHS-II cards, a headphone + microphone combo jack, a weird USB-C + proprietary connection port meant for external GPU docks, volume buttons, and a power button that also serves as a fingerprint sensor for Windows Hello. The Ally also has two back buttons which serve as macro buttons in combination with the D-Pad. Though the sticks on this are not hall-sensing sticks like those used by some competitors, they at least have RGB around them (if that's your thing). As for the sticks, triggers, and bumpers, they are also completely usable. ![]()
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