2023-05-13 01:38:21
ASUS ROG Ally vs. Steam Deck｜With the miniaturization of processing hardware and more power saving, handheld devices that can play PC games are gradually entering the market. Among them, Steam Deck, which was launched in Hong Kong at the end of last year, is one of the most popular models , recently ushered in the strongest competitor, which is the ROG Ally, the same product officially released by ASUS on May 11.
ROG Ally will be officially released globally next month, and we already have a real machine to try it out earlier????????????
But at the same time, I believe that many users are most interested in the difference between ROG Ally and Steam Deck. In this regard, foreign media Digital Trends found the real machine of ROG Ally and Steam Deck to compete in terms of price, specification and operation feel. for direct comparison.
The price gap is actually not as big as imagined?
Many people know that following ASUS released ROG Ally, the first thing they care regarding is the price, whether it is more expensive/fair than Steam Deck. It is related to Steam Deck as a mobile phone that can play PC games. It starts at $399 ( The selling price in Hong Kong (priced at $3,288) is indeed very attractive.
And when the price of ASUS ROG Ally was announced, its starting price of $600 was immediately considered to be “very different” from the price of Steam Deck. However, it can be noted that the cheapest version of Steam Deck only provides 64GB of slow storage. If you want In terms of storage capacity, it is on par with ROG Ally. In fact, the prices of the two are not too far apart.
(However, it is worth noting that the price data used by Digital Trends for comparison here is ROG Ally in the US market. In the US, the price of ROG Ally in the high-end Z1 Extreme version with 512GB capacity is only US$700, which is less than US$5,500 in Hong Kong dollars. , and in Hong Kong, the Z1 Extreme version of ROG Ally is priced at HK$6999.)
ROG Ally Handling performance lasts generations
The price of ASUS ROG Ally is undoubtedly much higher, and even one ROG Ally can buy two Steam Decks. However, considering that its release date is 2 years later than Steam Deck, in terms of specifications, ROG Ally can be said to have a cross-generational advantage.
The high-end version of ROG Ally uses the Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU, which is equipped with eight Zen 4 cores and 12 RDNA 3 cores. The performance can reach as high as 8.6 TFLOPs, and it also provides a maximum operating power of 30W. In contrast, Steam Deck, no matter what you choose Which model, you will only get four Zen 2 cores and eight RDNA 2 cores, its theoretical performance is 1.6 TFLOPs, which is several times weaker than ROG Ally, and the maximum power is only 15W.
Such a performance gap will cause a very large sensory difference when the game is actually running. If you want to pursue game quality and fluency, ROG Ally must be the winner.
Steam Deck Operations Bring It Back
Although there is no advantage in performance, Steam Deck is not useless. Digital Trends praised that Steam Deck is larger and bulkier, but the developer Valve made full use of this space, equipped with high-quality joysticks and buttons, and provided Touchpad and Handles PC games that require high-precision operations.
In terms of operation, ROG Ally has been severely criticized. Although it is smaller and easier to hold, ROG Ally does not have a Touchpad. The real problem is that its buttons feel bad. The joystick feels a bit cheap, and the D-pad feels poor, not as bad as the Joy-Con on the Nintendo Switch, but the ROG Ally’s buttons feel like a $30 knockoff controller.
Overall still ROG Ally wins
Both PC phones had their own issues, but overall, Digital Trends still thinks the ROG Ally offers acceptable battery life, better performance, more gaming support, and a better screen for the price. With little difference, they still recommend ASUS ROG Ally.
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