From PC Mag:
The upcoming Asus ROG Ally PC gaming handheld has wowed gaming fans by potentially giving us a next-generation Steam Deck before Valve. But one lingering mystery has been the price.
In some potentially good news, leaks suggest the ROG Ally will be well under $1,000. A Twitter user spotted a product page for the handheld on Best Buy, which revealed a $699 price.
The now-deleted page showed the $699 model will come with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB of NVME storage. That means the ROG Ally would only cost a little more than the most expensive Steam Deck model, which goes for $649 with 512GB of storage, 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and older specs. The base Steam Deck model costs $399 with only 64GB of built-in eMMC storage.
The $699 price also means the ROG Ally, which runs Windows, will be cheaper than many flagship smartphones and midrange laptops.
Another leaker on Twitter, SnoopyTech, also claims the $699 ROG Ally model will run AMD’s Ryzen Z1 Extreme chip, which contains eight CPU cores and 12 RDNA 3 compute units for the GPU. This suggests Asus might be preparing a more affordable ROG Ally that could use the lower-powered AMD Z1 chip, which features six CPU cores and four RDNA 3 compute units.
If real, the $699 price is surprising since the ROG Ally contains several improvements over the Steam Deck, including a 7-inch 1080p touch display with a 120Hz refresh rate, along with faster processors. The device also comes with Windows 11, instead of the Steam Deck’s Linux-based OS.
We’ll have to wait and see if the price leaks are true. Asus is holding a launch event for the ROG Ally on May 11, where it will announce pricing and availability.
The upcoming Asus ROG Ally PC gaming handheld has wowed gaming fans by potentially giving us a next-generation Steam Deck before Valve. But one lingering mystery has been the price.
In some potentially good news, leaks suggest the ROG Ally will be well under $1,000. A Twitter user spotted a product page for the handheld on Best Buy, which revealed a $699 price.
The now-deleted page showed the $699 model will come with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB of NVME storage. That means the ROG Ally would only cost a little more than the most expensive Steam Deck model, which goes for $649 with 512GB of storage, 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and older specs. The base Steam Deck model costs $399 with only 64GB of built-in eMMC storage.
The $699 price also means the ROG Ally, which runs Windows, will be cheaper than many flagship smartphones and midrange laptops.
Another leaker on Twitter, SnoopyTech, also claims the $699 ROG Ally model will run AMD’s Ryzen Z1 Extreme chip, which contains eight CPU cores and 12 RDNA 3 compute units for the GPU. This suggests Asus might be preparing a more affordable ROG Ally that could use the lower-powered AMD Z1 chip, which features six CPU cores and four RDNA 3 compute units.
If real, the $699 price is surprising since the ROG Ally contains several improvements over the Steam Deck, including a 7-inch 1080p touch display with a 120Hz refresh rate, along with faster processors. The device also comes with Windows 11, instead of the Steam Deck’s Linux-based OS.
We’ll have to wait and see if the price leaks are true. Asus is holding a launch event for the ROG Ally on May 11, where it will announce pricing and availability.
