I'm very impressed with what Asus has done here. At the same time Intel's upcoming lunar lake platform promises to do at 17 watt what AMD's Z1 Extreme takes 30 watts to do as well as reduce idle power draw. I am really looking forward to seeing what these chips can do. The combination of big batteries and upcoming more efficient chips should produce even better results.
Waiting for the 2. I tried the original ally and was a little bugged by the jankiness compared to the steam deck. They’re great devices but these are constantly being updated and I can wait because I’m fortunate enough to have other games to play for the next 12 months lol
There is none worthwhile right now. Strix point apus are coming out 2025 for laptops, and for handhelds it will likely be towards the end of the year or even 2026.
@@catchwreck928 I'm sure Deck 2 will come in 2 years when Valve is confortable with delivering something actually worth the wait as they said it themselves "the tech is not yet here".
@@Thetechchap I hope they don't all go OLED because there are people sensitive to some OLED displays like I do. Switch OLED gives me headache because of the DC dimming thing. Haven't tried Steam Deck OLED but my OLED phones were all fine because of Samsung displays (Pixel and iPhone)
This is really a game changer. People just don't realize how much these improvements actually mean. In the portable industry, comfort is always more important than performance, and better ergonomics, 100% longer battery, less heat and higher 1% are really appealing.
It's actually much better than 100% longer battery, despite it being 100% bigger in size. Not sure how that works, but all the in depth testers prove this. If a game lasts 1 hour on ROG Ally, it lasts 2.5-3 hours on the X.
Did they tell you to say that the SD card issue was " quickly fixed"? You really brushed over that quickly. It was not fixed for a lot of people and it was one of the reason i never picked up the ally.
Can you confirm if the extra vent on top of ally x actually helps cooling off the display? On og ally the display getd really warm after 30 mins of use, so asus put the extra vent on ally X to help.
I can confirm from my model it does the og ally ran a bit hotter at 15w abt 55 to 60c where the x for me ran low 50c at 17w. Og ally had thermal pad on heat pipes DIY back plate and bigger air vents.
Getting mine next week and I’m gonna get the ankle 24,000MAH 140W power bank with it, I want it to be portable, not wireless, full power with all day battery, here we come
Digital foundry did a video explaining the extra ram enables it to run next gen games at a concistent fps such as Alan wake 2 and avatar where the original couldn’t, it makes me wonder if it could actually run a game like GTA 6 as the thumbnail suggests. Definitely a bigger update than people realise
For somebody with a visual impairment, I would recommend sticking to windows. Some of the games that I’ve played that I’ve recently become accessible, unfortunately, do not have full capabilities, or at least I have not gotten them to work, on Linux. For example, when I started fiddling around, I noticed that Forza Horizon 5 has its own built-in screen reader, which is to say software that will read things aloud to people who have a hard time seeing them. The issue is that for some reason, the speech isn’t working on the steam deck, and I’m gonna presume that it’s due to a proprietary Windows API that it’s using. They also tweaked the visual novel Katawa Shoujo with accessibility option options as well, but it too, can’t produce the speech output on the steam deck, but it can on Windows and Mac. So at least for now I’m probably going to end up sticking with windows, and this is coming from a steam deck owner. Hopefully Valve will address these things in the future.
You might get better battery life from the Ally X playing PS3 games, you also have the CPU Boost that is necessary (or very helpful) for PS2-3 emulation that would make quite the difference Depending on how much money you can afford, I'd just do a lot of research comparing these two specifically cause the Ally X is REALLY good. Like way better than we thought it'd be
You noted that you can use an external monitor - what is the limitations there? Can you say add a keyboard and mouse (Bluetooth etc) and is it any good for say standard use like a laptop would (browsing or watching youtube on a larger monitor). In other words could be a laptop replacement in that portability but still able to game and be the full on handheld device life...?
If they shipped this at the same price of the OG Ally it would trump every handheld from performance to price point. No doubt Ally x is awesome, but the massive price increase is not justified without a screen and processor upgrade . This cost pretty much the same as legion go in the region I live
I would gladly pay $900 or $950 for this exact model running the upcoming AMD chip, which will have significantly better graphics and efficiency. Then Asus could have pulled an Apple and kept the regular Ally in the lineup, maybe even with a small price reduction. I do love all the updates of the Ally X, but the lack of a substantive performance gain (albeit a minor gain due to faster memory) makes it impossible to justify for all of us owners of a regular Ally.
There is no need to drop Steam Deck from 1080p and/or 1440p benchmark tests because Deck can run game with those resolutions internally. Just set resolution higher than 800p display. Under game Properties. Easy.
@@Thetechchap It is because bencmarking performance. Not visuals. (....some games do benefit running higher resolution like GTA4 which basically has no antialiasing....) But the point is still the same. Set devices at same level when comparing those.
there's two things that might make it a better choice than the steam deck and they're the battery being equivalent to it and storage it does use 2280 so you can put 4tb or more out of the box … hopefully it won't have the SD issues old ally had
Also, the price might be a hard sell for this if you already got one. But sell your old ally for 250-350 (and whatever else you can sell that you might not need 😅) and suddenly it becomes a lot cheaper. lol I’ll be doing just that myself.
asus rog ally original is the best currently in UK at 400 pounds vs the steam deck oled which i had in the past and sold because of poor performance in games its practically unplayable + the ROG ALLY is really really comfortable in hand. seriously with amazon black friday early discount nothing can beat it
Why cant they just use the lap top hardware and turn it into a hand held. Whats with all this new hardware? Pretty sure laptop nowadays are compact too. Why cant they run just like a PC why with all this drivers and crap just so it can run on hand held mode?
Still trying to figure out the $1 to £1 conversion rate when it comes to pricing. Even taking into account American sales tax and UK VAT, $799 does not translate to £799 at today's exchange rate. This thing shouldn't be costing a penny over £749.99
I had the Steam Deck OLED, but the lack of no VRR, no options to play Triple A games on it, and all these workarounds to get third party launchers working, and no anti-cheat games.
Wait a minute, this video he said the steam deck oled battery life is 2 hours and 15 minutes but his other comparison video…he said it has 3 hours and 30 minutes 😅
800 pounds is disaster for handheld. If it would be 400 pounds, it would be different sorry. 800 it basically competes with laptops now, which all are much faster in this price range, yes less portable but still would fit in any backpack. You don't even get an OLED screen. Seriously it's just a cash grab, terrible pricing.
@@kewa_design you must cluless person which does not understand money value, in which sense 800 pounds is nothing when you are paying for a handheld console? 🤣 Do you know how much Switch cost? 😊
@@kigasdj2 WE talk about weight ? 😭 Thought we talked about weight lol now we talk about Money i guess. If so, i agree 800 bucks is a lot No Matter what country u live in. Maybe Here its a Bit okay since Most products are equally the price and the og Ally still is above 550 Here and Z1 Ultra above 600 but usally yeah the prices is too high. Just thought we talk about weight 😅
Just got mine yesterday, and this is honestly what the original should have been! They completely nailed it with the vram increases, and adding that big battery. I was able to play wwe2k24, some max Payne *original* with some sonic frontiers, at 17watts which lasted me 1hr 50mins with some juice left to spare. If you’re able to get hold of a power bank battery, that’s your whole day sorted. 80watt should be the norm going forward, along with VRR screen!
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I'm very impressed with what Asus has done here. At the same time Intel's upcoming lunar lake platform promises to do at 17 watt what AMD's Z1 Extreme takes 30 watts to do as well as reduce idle power draw. I am really looking forward to seeing what these chips can do. The combination of big batteries and upcoming more efficient chips should produce even better results.
i’m just going to sell my ally x and get the 2 when that releases
Mine comes in Thursday. I have too many handhelds... xD
@@holmesfutrell yeah i dont trust intel chips these days
Waiting for the 2. I tried the original ally and was a little bugged by the jankiness compared to the steam deck. They’re great devices but these are constantly being updated and I can wait because I’m fortunate enough to have other games to play for the next 12 months lol
I really wish the new Ally had an updated CPU and GPU! The price is a hard sale given how close it performs to the original.
I don't think there's any new hardware available yet - hopefully next year. very excited for a fully Ally 2 with a Z2 extreme and an OLED screen!
@@Thetechchap this is why im not buying it i would lose my mind if they released the steam deck ally and lenovo go 2
There is none worthwhile right now. Strix point apus are coming out 2025 for laptops, and for handhelds it will likely be towards the end of the year or even 2026.
@@catchwreck928 I'm sure Deck 2 will come in 2 years when Valve is confortable with delivering something actually worth the wait as they said it themselves "the tech is not yet here".
@@Thetechchap I hope they don't all go OLED because there are people sensitive to some OLED displays like I do. Switch OLED gives me headache because of the DC dimming thing. Haven't tried Steam Deck OLED but my OLED phones were all fine because of Samsung displays (Pixel and iPhone)
🎉🎉🎉 the best Ally X review I've seen so far
Thank you!
This is really a game changer. People just don't realize how much these improvements actually mean. In the portable industry, comfort is always more important than performance, and better ergonomics, 100% longer battery, less heat and higher 1% are really appealing.
It's not a game changer brother it's a larger battery and more ram it doesn't know how to distribute properly watch the phawxs video 💯
there's nothing game changing about it😂
It's actually much better than 100% longer battery, despite it being 100% bigger in size. Not sure how that works, but all the in depth testers prove this. If a game lasts 1 hour on ROG Ally, it lasts 2.5-3 hours on the X.
When you play it and see the battery is wayyy better than the original you understand why ppl say it’s a game changer
Lmfao fanboyism is cancer, this device is overrated 😂😂😂😂😂
I love the Ally series, I just wish your could pause and resume more seamlessly, but oh well, just grabbed the X from Best Buy.
I’ve got mine in hand now. I need a bit of time now to set it up so that I can sit back, relax and play some games,
Did they tell you to say that the SD card issue was " quickly fixed"? You really brushed over that quickly. It was not fixed for a lot of people and it was one of the reason i never picked up the ally.
Great video!
Love the vid! 😀
Can you confirm if the extra vent on top of ally x actually helps cooling off the display? On og ally the display getd really warm after 30 mins of use, so asus put the extra vent on ally X to help.
I can confirm from my model it does the og ally ran a bit hotter at 15w abt 55 to 60c where the x for me ran low 50c at 17w. Og ally had thermal pad on heat pipes DIY back plate and bigger air vents.
ill wait for Ally 2. I am a long term steamdeck user but I think ill sell it and wait for ally 2
Great review! Looking forward to the hand held comparison video!
Cheers!
Getting mine next week and I’m gonna get the ankle 24,000MAH 140W power bank with it, I want it to be portable, not wireless, full power with all day battery, here we come
Ohh that’s a fun idea!
i wish i can afford that beautiful Handheld
Wait for the future handhelds with 890m guys
1080p will finaly REALLY be running at 60fps and even with some settings higher than low or very low 😅
oh ill wait
so I can get ally x cheaper :>
Im happy with it. My tv caps at 60 fps so its not that different.
I personally think the weight difference between the X and the Ally is negligible. I wish it was still white, though.
Why? White gets so dirty
Digital foundry did a video explaining the extra ram enables it to run next gen games at a concistent fps such as Alan wake 2 and avatar where the original couldn’t, it makes me wonder if it could actually run a game like GTA 6 as the thumbnail suggests. Definitely a bigger update than people realise
Thumbnail is my hope for it hah! But yes the ram certainly makes the performance noticeably more consistent, as does improved cooling
Can you install bazzite on it and run some tests? Edit: 13:26 yup Windows lol
For somebody with a visual impairment, I would recommend sticking to windows. Some of the games that I’ve played that I’ve recently become accessible, unfortunately, do not have full capabilities, or at least I have not gotten them to work, on Linux. For example, when I started fiddling around, I noticed that Forza Horizon 5 has its own built-in screen reader, which is to say software that will read things aloud to people who have a hard time seeing them. The issue is that for some reason, the speech isn’t working on the steam deck, and I’m gonna presume that it’s due to a proprietary Windows API that it’s using. They also tweaked the visual novel Katawa Shoujo with accessibility option options as well, but it too, can’t produce the speech output on the steam deck, but it can on Windows and Mac. So at least for now I’m probably going to end up sticking with windows, and this is coming from a steam deck owner. Hopefully Valve will address these things in the future.
This is a commendable enhancement. 👍
Is it worth the upgrade if you have the original? And will you be doing a comparison next to the legion go?
Nope not worth it if you already have an Ally. Full comparison coming next week
which is best for gaming ROG ALLY X OR LENOVO LEGION GO & NO LAG ?
Have a full buying guide testing them next week
Wow this is great, if it had trackpads i would have actually needed to reconsider whether I wanted to buy a Steam Deck now
Between this and a steam deck ifninjust wanna play ps1-3 games and GameCube gba 3ds is a steam deck a better investment?
I'd get as steam deck oled then yep
@@Thetechchap Ahh lovely stuff I shall purchase later today on Amazon thanks 😁
You might get better battery life from the Ally X playing PS3 games, you also have the CPU Boost that is necessary (or very helpful) for PS2-3 emulation that would make quite the difference
Depending on how much money you can afford, I'd just do a lot of research comparing these two specifically cause the Ally X is REALLY good. Like way better than we thought it'd be
@@imlskr yeah to be fair though was thinking to buy the steam dock so I can just play on TV n not worry about that too much
Ps3 emulation is very bad on Steamdeck compare to the ally , but for ps1 and ps2 it is ok
Shallow take on my part but the black aesthetics are leaps and bounds better than the "white only" model.
0:01 It was just dangling in the backpack? 😳😅
Great review. 👍🏽
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You noted that you can use an external monitor - what is the limitations there? Can you say add a keyboard and mouse (Bluetooth etc) and is it any good for say standard use like a laptop would (browsing or watching youtube on a larger monitor). In other words could be a laptop replacement in that portability but still able to game and be the full on handheld device life...?
Yes with the original you can connect it to a monitor and use a mouse and keyboard, so this should be the same. Windows acts as a normal computer.
I'm waiting [not so] patiently for mine to arrive in the mail.
I’m waiting for mine to show up at Best Buy hopefully this Friday
hey do or the rog ally accessories fit the rog ally x ?
Nope
If they shipped this at the same price of the OG Ally it would trump every handheld from performance to price point. No doubt Ally x is awesome, but the massive price increase is not justified without a screen and processor upgrade . This cost pretty much the same as legion go in the region I live
What game is at 2:37? thats some SICK physics destruction effects 😲😳
Cyberpunk 2077
But will it be able to play gta 6
7:07 I don't think viewing angles are a factor for a handheld.
Why no OLED screen? A 7,4-8" OLED on this would have been ez win.
No VRR support on the current 7" OLED, I think that's why.
Without VRR ? No thanks, always would rather pick an LCD with VRR instead of an OLED screen without VRR
No OLED, lasts longer
Thanks for the review. Definitely looks like the Steam Deck (which isn't a complaint).
This is wild!
At timestamp 2:38 what’s the name of that game?
Thats Cyberpunk 2077 😅 a very Early Level in the story
Microsoft needs to release a version of Windows dedicated to these handhelds. A version with a native games launcher and simplified UI.
Any chance of you being able to link that storm trooper?
Can't remember where it came from actually! Had it for years!
I need to make decisions by July 31 to ensure I get the pre-order bonus. All these videos are really helpful. Thanks!
what is the pre order bonus?
Is there a pre-order bonus?
@@nickjacobsss In my country yes from Official Asus, in which i will get free ROG Ally hard carrying Case, rog ally charging dock and screen protector
@@Isa-hf8pg In my country yes from Official Asus, in which i will get free ROG Ally hard carrying case, rog ally charging dock and screen protector
I would gladly pay $900 or $950 for this exact model running the upcoming AMD chip, which will have significantly better graphics and efficiency. Then Asus could have pulled an Apple and kept the regular Ally in the lineup, maybe even with a small price reduction. I do love all the updates of the Ally X, but the lack of a substantive performance gain (albeit a minor gain due to faster memory) makes it impossible to justify for all of us owners of a regular Ally.
Don’t get it, why there is no data for steam deck Oled? What is the point of comparing the new model to the previous generation?
He doesnt have one, also specs are the same
Waiting for handheld gaming buying guide !!!
Wish 80wh will be the next handheld standard
So the OG 65w charger will not charge this new one?
It will, but at 65w instead of 100w
@rayyanefekkak That's great. As sometimes the weaker chrgers wouldn't be recognised. EG, the OG ally wouldn't recognise my 45w charger and needed 65w.
@@bryanecek That's odd because my Ally charges with a 45w charger fine. It's just my Steam Deck charger and it always charges it no issues
@crestofhonor2349 my post was a question, not a statement.
There is no need to drop Steam Deck from 1080p and/or 1440p benchmark tests because
Deck can run game with those resolutions internally.
Just set resolution higher than 800p display. Under game Properties. Easy.
there's no point though - as it can't be displayed
@@Thetechchap It is because bencmarking performance. Not visuals.
(....some games do benefit running higher resolution like GTA4 which basically has no antialiasing....)
But the point is still the same.
Set devices at same level when comparing those.
Can this play Xbox game pass games & ps games via cloud streaming?
Yes, watching other reviews (and in rigs own website) it has xbox gamepass built in,remote play and cloud for xbox.
Not sure about ps5 .
set up guide for the ally x?
I got say it’s amazing device even tho they doubled 80 but drain quickly
can you install the rog ally x battery into the rog ally? was wondering if i can upgrade my rog ally if i can somehow buy the battery
Can we use this device as a full fledged pc by connecting monitors and keyboard?
Yeah Same like you can with the original ally
F1 is the game to play with these handhelds. I play F1 on the legion go everyday.
there's two things that might make it a better choice than the steam deck and they're the battery being equivalent to it and storage it does use 2280 so you can put 4tb or more out of the box … hopefully it won't have the SD issues old ally had
Also, the price might be a hard sell for this if you already got one. But sell your old ally for 250-350 (and whatever else you can sell that you might not need 😅) and suddenly it becomes a lot cheaper. lol I’ll be doing just that myself.
asus rog ally original is the best currently in UK at 400 pounds vs the steam deck oled which i had in the past and sold because of poor performance in games its practically unplayable + the ROG ALLY is really really comfortable in hand. seriously with amazon black friday early discount nothing can beat it
This is the best gaming handheld yet.
I felt the pain of that fall 😭😭
Its such a bummer there's no touchpad. Especially on a windows handheld it's a necessity imho.
waiting for your next video , i will choose based on that
What’s the game shown at 10:00? Thank you!
One of the newer Hitman games. Either 1, 2 or 3
I won't buy it until they put a xg mobile port on it, so still using the original ally.
I think 800 bucks is fair, just look at the avg price of the 7/8840u chinese handhelds with similar specs(32g+512)...
OLED is awesome but vrr is kicker 👍
What’s vrr?
@@lankytoast1315variable refresh rate, one of Not the best technical advancements of Displays in recent years IMO
Can we play while charging and does it affect the battery?
Of course you can play while charging. It even gives you a better performance.
@@Baleygrr Does it cause damage to the battery?
@@A1000-o8o I don't think so. I always play while it's plugged in and charging. It gives you more FPS in demanding and newer games.
@@Baleygrr ❤❤❤Thanks
I was loyal to the steam deck until I saw this
Thinking of selling my Steam Deck LCD (Q1) and buying this. I’ll probably only get like $200 for the SD
I need to know what north face backpack that is lol
Lenovo Legion Go Squad 👍
Whats the fps in gta 6?
Same ally og plus 5 more fps 😂😂
GTA6 isn't out
@@crestofhonor2349 really?
We don’t know. GTA 6 is not out yet
@@chazallen7959 no way
I can’t find the z1 for 200 anywhere
What gpu veam setting was used ?
Why cant they just use the lap top hardware and turn it into a hand held. Whats with all this new hardware? Pretty sure laptop nowadays are compact too. Why cant they run just like a PC why with all this drivers and crap just so it can run on hand held mode?
Can we install and run games likr *.exe files in it?
Deck oled for me I bought the original rog ally and the crap from Windows done my head in.
Are this rog ally x support hdr dolby vision?
It doesn't have a HDR screen.
I would hold off on handhelds until AMD strix comes out, that at the 15w level is going to see massive improvements thanks to RDNA 3.5.
Or lunar lake! But yes I’m hoping so. Most likely early next year though
9:48 so... motionflow technology. AKA 16 years old
Would anybody know if you could use an external Xbox terabyte on the Asus ally?
I see bugs very very rarely with windows llemn lol I prefer it for the ease of access.
Спасибо за быстрый обзор .
The steam deck still looks better
Still trying to figure out the $1 to £1 conversion rate when it comes to pricing. Even taking into account American sales tax and UK VAT, $799 does not translate to £799 at today's exchange rate. This thing shouldn't be costing a penny over £749.99
I would agree
Sixth, here for the much awaited battery test
Legion go all the way for me 😊
I had the Steam Deck OLED, but the lack of no VRR, no options to play Triple A games on it, and all these workarounds to get third party launchers working, and no anti-cheat games.
Good points!
Never noticed tearing on the deck oled with 'tearing off' even enabled. Tf?
COPIUM Rx prescription for the ones who spent more for it and the ones who want to upgrade but can’t.
Wait a minute, this video he said the steam deck oled battery life is 2 hours and 15 minutes but his other comparison video…he said it has 3 hours and 30 minutes 😅
I knows it’s late because I’ve already bought it lol but I don’t have it yet so I’m here to see if it was worth it
Love the fact it runs win 11
Where is the teardown?
tech cahp do the onexplayer x1 review or we will.......
800 pounds is disaster for handheld. If it would be 400 pounds, it would be different sorry. 800 it basically competes with laptops now, which all are much faster in this price range, yes less portable but still would fit in any backpack. You don't even get an OLED screen. Seriously it's just a cash grab, terrible pricing.
That’s just very subjective
800pounds is nothing :0
@@kewa_design you must cluless person which does not understand money value, in which sense 800 pounds is nothing when you are paying for a handheld console? 🤣 Do you know how much Switch cost? 😊
@@kigasdj2 WE talk about weight ? 😭 Thought we talked about weight lol now we talk about Money i guess. If so, i agree 800 bucks is a lot No Matter what country u live in. Maybe Here its a Bit okay since Most products are equally the price and the og Ally still is above 550 Here and Z1 Ultra above 600 but usally yeah the prices is too high. Just thought we talk about weight 😅
Considering my desktop rig cost 4k the ally x is great value for 800 😂
Why all reviewers use the same games on tests
Why is it 799 in both US and UK :(
£799 = $1000+
we are literally paying more
Its 899€ in Germany 😭
Why on earth would anyone buy this when the legion go exist?
He’s got his sisters eyes
For $800 I expected them to upgrade it internally. They only upgraded the battery. It looks cheap compared to the SD.
It does a bit, you're right. SD Oled is literally quite a bit cheaper as well
Yeah, just ignore the upgraded ram, ssd moving to 2280, 1 tb standard, better dpad.
just do ur research dude
@@FierroSevNot to mention the faster 100w charging, the second USB-C which is thunderbolt 4, the better joysticks and power modes.
lol you can tell them but they won't be able to read it from their 720 screens.
Just got mine yesterday, and this is honestly what the original should have been! They completely nailed it with the vram increases, and adding that big battery. I was able to play wwe2k24, some max Payne *original* with some sonic frontiers, at 17watts which lasted me 1hr 50mins with some juice left to spare. If you’re able to get hold of a power bank battery, that’s your whole day sorted. 80watt should be the norm going forward, along with VRR screen!
Oops 😬 I bought it before I watched.
what with these steam deck fanboys, crawling like ants when every ally videos
😂😂
Tempting buuuh nah! I will skip this and wait for OLED