Asus ROG Ally price leaked — and it wasn’t as great as we expected.
Price has been the primary question we’ve been asking about the ROG Ally since it was announced. We originally thought it might cost around $1,000, based on the specifications of the mobile device. However, according to several sources, the ROG Ally won’t cost nearly that much.
Take all this with a grain of salt, however, a leaked Best Buy screenshot posted by wickedkhumz (Opens in a new tab)Another leak from snoopy tech (Opens in a new tab)and the data displayed on the edge (Opens in a new tab) by the passenger Roland Quandt (Opens in a new tab) He claims that the Asus ROG Ally will cost $699.
This is supposed to pack the recently announced model AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor (Opens in a new tab)and 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. AMD also announced the Ryzen Z1 chip, though it’s unclear whether or not there will be another model with this processor. But even if the portable Z1 Extreme is the only model available, it’s still only $50 more than the Steam Deck.
| Header cell – column 0 | Asus ROG ally | steam surface |
|---|---|---|
| price | $699 (as stated) | $399 to start, $649 for the 512GB model |
| Slices | Custom AMD Zen 4 APU | Custom AMD Zen 2 APU |
| storage | 512 GB | 64 – 512 GB |
| OS | Windows 11 operating system | SteamOS |
| an offer | 7-inch LCD touch screen, 1080p@120Hz | 7-inch LCD touch screen with a resolution of 720p at 60Hz |
| ports | One USB-C port, one PCIe port, one headphone jack | 1 USB-C, 1 3.5mm audio jack, 1 microSD card reader |
| measuring | 11.0 x 4.4 x 0.5 in | 11.73 x 4.6 x 1.93 in |
| Weight | 1.3 lbs | 1.47 pounds |
| battery life | 8 hours (claimed) | 3 hours 51 minutes (tested) |
ROG Ally measures 11.0 x 4.4 x 0.5 inches and weighs 1.3 pounds. In contrast, the Steam Deck measures 11.73 x 4.60 x 1.93 inches and weighs 1.5 pounds. Overall, the Asus laptop is smaller and weighs less than the Steam Deck.
The ROG Ally has a 7-inch, 120Hz, 16:9 display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080. Asus says it can reach 500 nits of brightness. The Steam Deck also has a 7-inch screen, but with a maximum resolution of 1280 x 800 and a refresh rate of 60Hz. Valve says the Steam Deck can hit 400 nits of brightness, but it peaked at 170 nits in our lab test.
As mentioned earlier, the Asus ROG Ally has new AMD Ryzen Z1 series processors, which feature RDNA3-based graphics. The new chips have up to 8 cores and 16 threads and feature the efficiency of Zen 4 architecture, according to AMD. The new AMD processors are based on the x86 architecture and are compatible with Windows 11.
| Row 0 – cell 0 | cores/threads | graphics | cache |
| AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme | 8/16 | 12 AMD RDNA 3 Compute Units | 24 MB |
| AMD Ryzen Z1 | 6/12 | 4 AMD RDNA Compute Units 3 | 22 MB |
AMD Ryzen Z1 series dedicated Zen 4 RDNA3 4nm APU. The Steam Deck also uses an AMD APU, but its CPU is based on the Zen 2 architecture while the GPU uses RDNA 2. This chip has four Zen 2 cores and eight RDNA 2 compute units. By comparison, the AMD Ryzen Z1 has six Zen 4 cores and 4 RDNA 3 computational units.
Asus claims that the ROG Ally has twice the performance of Steam Deck. The company said Linus Technology Tips (Opens in a new tab), who also previewed the system, found that Ally is twice as fast as the Steam Deck at 35W — with the latter coming out at 15W. Ally may not hit 35W at launch but it will put the APU in AMD’s U-series chips, which range from 15W to 28W.
prospects
At $699, the Asus ROG Ally has a chance to go head-to-head with the popular Steam Deck. Price was one of our concerns with the ROG Ally but that has now been resolved. Game compatibility is now the main thing we have questions about. Just because a game can run on Windows 11 doesn’t necessarily mean it will run well, especially considering that ROG Ally is running on a new processor. But if developers optimize games to run on Ally as they do on the Steam Deck, the Asus laptop could give Valve’s hardware some stiff competition.
Asus ROG Ally is expected to be released on May 11th. We will do a review for you at that time. In the meantime, be sure to read our hands-on Asus ROG Ally preview to hear what we think of the mobile device.
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