Asus ROG Ally launches May 11 with pricing 'for sure... below $1,000'
The Asus ROG Ally has an official launch date of May 11. That's a lot sooner than many of us expected to see the new Steam Deck(opens in new tab) rival, a wee PC that Asus is promising will «redefine handheld gaming.»
The company has been seeding us with some solid data ready for its upcoming launch event, including the super-bright 120Hz 7-inch screen's response time, and the machine's confirmed pair of AMD Ryzen Z1-series chips.
After teasing the Ally on April Fools(opens in new tab), then waiting days to reveal that it wasn't actually a joke, Asus Steam Deck rival wasn't off to the greatest of starts in the eyes of some jaded tech journalists. Asus is happy with how it all went, however, with Asus' global marketing director, Galip Fu, telling us: «We took an unconventional approach to showcase our unconventional device, and we're pleased with the results.»
Not long after the initial announcement the company needled us with yet another teaser that the Ally's launch date may be «sooner than you expect»(opens in new tab), and with that coming in just a couple of weeks from now, Asus clearly wasn't messing around. This time.
APU: AMD Ryzen Z1Lithography: 4nmCPU uArch: Zen 4Cores: 6Threads: 12GPU uArch: RDNA 3Compute units: 4Memory: 16GB LPDDR5Storage: 512GB PCIe 4.0 SSD | UHS II MicroSDScreen: 7-inchResolution: 1080pRefresh rate: 120HzResponse: 7msPeak luminance: 500 nitsPPI: 314Operating system: Windows 11Weight: 608g
Previous reports from YouTuber Dave2D(opens in new tab) placed the ROG Ally's processor as a custom AMD SoC built on TSMC's 4nm process node. Asus has now confirmed the Zen 4 CPU and an RDNA 3 GPU the Ally will be running on as a semi-custom, 6-core, 12-thread SoC known as the Ryzen Z1. It's essentially a
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