If these benchmarks are true, the ROG Ally's graphics are gonna slap
According to recent benchmarks of AMD's Radeon 780M iGPU—the very same integrated RDNA 3 graphics attached to the ROG Ally's assumed custom Ryzen 7 7840U SoC(opens in new tab)—we should see the red team's next generation of mobile chips playing the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 at 60fps at 1080p. At least, when overclocked.
What that means for the ROG Ally is still nebulous, but if the custom SoC's iGPU is anything close to the one being tested here, we're expecting great things from Asus's upcoming gaming handheld.
The numbers come from YouTuber ETA Prime(opens in new tab)'s time with the Asus TUF A15, and its Ryzen 9 7940HS Zen 4 APU (via WCCFTech(opens in new tab)). While that's not the exact CPU we're expecting to see in the ROG Ally, its Radeon 780M integrated graphics are what we're most interested in. Asus has been teasing us with the ROG Ally since April Fools(opens in new tab), and the latest rumours place its custom SoC somewhere between the Ryzen 7 7840U and the Ryzen 5 7640U—either way it'll be touting the 780M.
Just to make things clear, the TUF's Ryzen 9 7940HS was initially supposed to come with a 3GHz base clock, though AMD cut it back to 2.8GHz. That's closer to what we're expecting from the ROG Ally in order to keep it handheld friendly, though we're likely to see some differences in performance due to the custom nature of the Ally's SoC.
It's also important to consider the potential for thermal throttling, since the Ally packs a lot into a much smaller chassis.
Still, if ETA Prime's benchmarks are anything to go by, that 45W iGPU sits somewhere below the performance of Nvidia's mobile RTX 2050, and above the Radeon 680M iGPU.
With all games set to 1080p, GTA V ran at an average of 81 fps at very high
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