The Asus ROG Ally is the latest challenge to the Valve Steam Deck in handheld PC gaming and probably the most powerful to date.
The Ally bests the Steam Deck on a number of technical specifications, notably its seven-inch 1080p display with a 120Hz refresh rate (against its rival’s 800p, 60Ghz display) and its engine room, an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme. This 4nm processor is an eight-core, 16-thread beast with a 24MB cache and up to a 5.1GHz boost.
From an ergonomic point of view, the Ally also weighs in at 608g against the Steam Deck’s 669g, although hardcore gamers have differed over which sits more comfortably in your hands.
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At $700/£700, the Ally’s arrival has already led Valve to drop the price of its most highly specified model from $649 to $520.
The Ally is also very...