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- 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.