The ROG Ally X Is a Solid Mid-Gen Refresh, Here’s What I Want to See Next
The specs of the upcoming ASUS ROG Ally X, a refresh of the ASUS ROG Ally, are all but fully leaked, and I’m pretty satisfied with what I’m seeing. Here’s what I think about the ROG Ally X and what I want to see in the ROG Ally 2.
The ROG Ally X Packs Some Cool Upgrades
It looks like ASUS tweaked or upgraded everything the community complained about with the original ROG Ally. We’re expecting a much bigger battery, an SD card slot that actually works, more storage, more RAM, and several other smaller upgrades.
The most important change here is the new SD card reader, apparently the same one ASUS uses on its laptops, which has been moved away from the air vents where the card reader on the original Ally is located. This is a step in the right direction, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The next big improvement is a larger battery. According to Videocardz, which apparently acquired a document listing the official specs of the ROG Ally X, the new revision features an 80Wh cell, doubling the capacity of the original ROG Ally’s battery. This should hopefully allow the ROG Ally X to last two hours at its max TDP, considering I get about an hour when gaming at 25W.
Next up is 24GB of LPDDR5X-7500 memory, which is 8GB more than on the original model. I’ve been saying that the ROG Ally should’ve launched with 24GB of RAM from the get-go, so this is yet another right move by ASUS, allowing future ROG Ally X owners to reserve 8GB of RAM for the GPU and still have 16GB of memory for games and the OS.
Performance improvements due to faster memory should be minimal (the ROG Ally packs 16GB of LPDDR5-6400 RAM); I don't expect more than 10% difference between the two machines.
We should also get support for regular-sized 2280 NVMe SSDs instead of being limited to compact 2230 SSDs on the OG Ally. This should allow for more affordable storage upgrades, but considering that the ROG Ally X features 1TB of storage and a working SD card reader, I doubt many owners
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