The ASUS ROG Ally will be available in two different versions, as confirmed by the latest entry in the Geekbench database. Both versions will feature AMD's Phoenix APUs with Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU architectures, but with different specifications. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme version will have an 8-core/16-thread configuration with 12 Compute Units (CUs) GPU, while the Ryzen Z1 non-Extreme version will have a 6-core/12-thread CPU configuration and 4 RDNA 3 CUs.
The Geekbench entry also shows a small difference in clock speeds between the two Ryzen Z1 SKUs, with the non-Extreme version having a base frequency of 3.2 GHz and Boost of 4.9 GHz, while the Ryzen Z1 Extreme version has a base frequency of 3.3 GHz and Boost up to almost 5.1 GHz. The non-Extreme Ryzen Z1 SKU will have a big impact on the GPU side, with just 256 Stream Processors, while the Ryzen Z1 Extreme iGPU will have 768 Stream Processors, making it significantly more powerful.
The ASUS ROG Ally will come with a 7-inch 1920x1080 resolution screen with 500 nits of brightness, 120 Hz refresh rate, and a 7 ms response time. It will pair up the Ryzen Z1 APU with 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM in dual-channel mode (at least for the Ryzen Z1 Extreme version), and feature 512 GB of PCIe Gen 4 M.2-2230 internal storage. Unfortunately, there is no precise launch date or any solid hint about the price, but ASUS did announce it will be available worldwide and could come sooner than expected.
