The ROG Ally doesn't need the Deck's Verified system because of Windows and its AMD Z1 chip
The Asus ROG Ally isn't going to ship with any form of game validation system because you «should be able to play all games without needing validation from either our team or the game publishers.»
That's a confident statement, and a confident stance as to the power of the custom AMD silicon at the heart of the new gaming handheld and the Microsoft OS. The Steam Deck has a specific Deck Verified rating system to give gamers confidence a given game will run well on its hardware, on its Linux OS, and on a handheld device.
But Asus believes the combination of a Windows 11 OS and a powerful Zen 4/RDNA 3 APU will be all the validation you need to know your games will just work.
Asus has confirmed the ROG Ally will launch on May 11(opens in new tab) this year, and that it will be sporting custom AMD Ryzen Z1-series APUs. There are two different chips, likely going into two distinct variants of the Ally: a standard six-core, 12-thread version and the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, with eight Zen 4 cores and 16 threads.
APU: AMD Ryzen Z1Lithography: 4nmCPU uArch: Zen 4Cores: 6Threads: 12GPU uArch: RDNA 3GPU: 780MMemory: 16GB LPDDR5Storage: 512GB PCIe 4.0 SSD | UHS II MicroSDScreen: 7-inch Resolution: 1080pRefresh rate: 120HzResponse: 7ms Peak luminance: 500 nitsPPI: 314Operating system: Windows 11Weight: 608g
Both should come with the AMD 780M integrated graphics silicon, though whether there is a difference in terms of clock speed between the two versions of the iGPU we don't yet know. Either way, we've seen early benchmarks of the chip in modern titles, and you're looking at over 60 fps at medium 1080p settings.
That jibes well with the assertion from Asus' global director of marketing, Galip Fu, that all your games will work.
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