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With a 7', 16:9 aspect ratio and a brighter 500-nit screen that has a refresh rate of 120Hz with up to a Full HD resolution along with VRR support, the Ally is arguably well-positioned to be the best handheld in the market when it comes to display quality alone for some time. This is a major letdown in our opinion as Wi-Fi 6 was a mainstream standard when the Steam Deck launched and having better wireless internet in a handheld would have considerably made life easier for the multitude of users that often complain about limited download speeds and higher latency while gaming especially when most of the current networking hardware is Wi-Fi 6/6E compatible today.

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On the networking end, the Steam Deck uses Wi-Fi 5 (AC) and Bluetooth 5.0 to communicate while the ROG Ally pushes much more recent tech (Wi-Fi 6E plus BT 5.2). Networking Options & Connectivityīoth the Steam Deck and ROG Ally are powered by USB-C connectors which feature the ability to also connect external displays, add to or function with more devices, and/or connect to Ethernet ports. The Steam Deck's bundled adapter caps out at 45W while the ROG Ally comes with a significantly faster 65W version. That being said, efficiency also kicks in here and allows both to perform similarly unless you engage the Ally's Turbo mode which, based on most tests runs less than an hour when charged at full capacity. Power: Charging & Capacityīoth the Steam Deck & ROG Ally are powered by a 40WH Battery but the ROG Ally has a potentially more significant power drain potential thanks to a full HD display and a much more powerful processor coupled with a full-fledged version of Windows running on it.

While the advantages of this are debatable in most real-world scenarios where the Steam Deck does well enough on its SSD variants to not warrant a major overhaul in terms of raw potential speeds, but the option is good enough to have for those looking to compare the two.īoth consoles support microSD cards but the ROG Ally does tend to edge out the Steam Deck with UHS-II support which allows approximately 3 times the effective speed of the Steam Decks UHS-I speeds. It must be noted that the console itself restricts speeds to a maximum of 2 lanes of PCI-E 3.0, meaning that the console is limited to ~2000mbps of I/O even if you find a faster storage module.Ĭompared to this, the ROG Ally comes with PCI-E 4.0 support out of the box and an SSD to match which caps out at approximately 5000mbps of storage speeds that dwarfs anything that you could possibly couple and get similar speeds with on a Steam Deck. In terms of internal SSD offerings, this gets more interesting as the Steam Deck comes in 3 flavors the 64GB gets eMMC storage while the 256GB and 512GB get SSD storage that works below the PCI-E 3.0 speeds that the console is capable of with the 512GB clocking in slightly faster than the 256G unit's module. While the ASUS offering is slightly faster at 6400MT/s, the Steam Deck, despite being over a year older, also clocks in at a respectable 5500 MT/s. Storage & Memory Optionsīoth the ASUS ROG Ally & the Steam Deck ship with 16GB of LPDDR5 memory accessible by the APU. The 12 RDNA 3-based graphics cores on the Ally versus the 8 RDNA 2-based cores on the Steam Deck further cement its position as the superior console when considering potential performance. This is reflected thanks to both, the higher IPC (instructions per cycle) count that Zen 4 cores come with versus the older Zen 2 cores and the higher clocks the ROG Ally brings to the table with the Z1 Extreme able to push even 5.1 GHz sustained if thermally allowed to do so.

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The AMD Z1 Series APUs are expected to power multiple handheld consoles in the coming days with the ASUS ROG Ally expected to be the first of many.

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AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme/ AMD Ryzen Z1 (Zen 4 Cores)Ħ4GB (eMMC), 256GB, and 512GB with the option to upgrade