Some big changes and a host of further tweaks have fixed the old flaws making this the handheld gaming PC to get.
The original ROG Ally was flawed but brilliant. The updated Ally X is just brilliant and any remaining issues are entirely down to Windows not being very suited to small screens on handheld devices.Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.to give it a raft of much-needed updates and rename it as the ROG Ally X.
Asus has retained the 7-inch 1080p, 120 Hz IPS display from the Ally but that's okay as it's sharp, bright, and has great colour reproduction. Using something with more pixels would only tank the performance and a higher refresh rate would eat into the battery life—something we noticed with theWhere the first iteration of Asus' handheld PC feels somewhat cheap and flimsy in places, the updated version has a far more robust and high-quality air to it, especially the controls.
The performance gains aren't especially noticeable in our standard benchmarks but running them again with FSR upscaling enabled and all the quality settings dropped to medium values, the Ally X was around six to 10% faster than the Ally. That's not very much but it's better than nothing. Pitting the Ally X against the Ally in our standard battery test doesn't produce any major surprises—80 Wh vs 40 Wh—but the fact that it's a little bit better than it should be shows that Asus' engineers have done a great job of maximising the Z1 Extreme's efficiency.
Horizon Zero Dawn and Cyberpunk 2077 didn't just have great performance on the Ally X, they worked perfectly with Asus' controllers—F1 22, on the other hand, was a pain to get running properly, requiring several restarts before filling the screen and recognising the thumbsticks correctly.
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