The cheaper ASUS ROG Ally reportedly has inferior performance to the Steam Deck.
A review noted that the ROG Ally Z1 lagged behind the Deck in a variety of games.
It looks like battery life isn’t much better than the ROG Ally Z1 Extreme model, either.
ASUS launched the ROG Ally earlier this year, coming as the first Windows handheld from a major PC brand. This model shipped with an AMD Z1 Extreme chip, with the Taiwanese brand saying a cheaper model powered by a standard Z1 chip will launch later this year.
Now, Digital Trends has reviewed this cheaper ROG Ally model, and there’s bad news for performance.