ASUS has introduced its brand new ROG Ally X gaming handheld which is an upgrade to the original model using the same AMD Ryzen Z1 APUs.
ASUS ROG Ally X Handheld Is The Upgrade That You've Been Asking For, Everything is Better But At A Higher Price Last year, we got to see the ASUS ROG Ally which was the first handheld to make use of AMD's new Ryzen Z1 APUs based on the Zen 4 core architecture.
Now a year later, ASUS is upgrading things for its handheld users and offering a beefed-up model in the form of the ROG Ally X. Related Story AMD Zen 5 CPU Families Detailed: Granite Ridge Desktop, Fire Range & Strix Halo High-End Laptop, Strix & Krackan For MainstreamThe ASUS ROG Ally X is based on the same AMD Ryzen Z1 APU series but instead of having two models, the X variant will only come configured with the higher-end Ryzen Z1 Extreme which is the top APU of choice for handhelds featuring 8 cores,16 threads up to 5.1 GHz clock speeds, 12 RDNA 3 compute units and 24 MB of cache.
The APU can be configured between 9W and up to 30W and given the upgraded cooling on the ROG Ally X, you can expect better performance out of this insanely efficient handheld chip.
The ROG Ally X sees major changes in the battery and storage department, with the battery being upgraded to 30-40% larger capacities (ASUS calls the battery improvement very good), offering twice as much gaming time versus the original model.