New specifications for the ROG Ally X have surfaced online, and with it comes the news that the next iteration of ASUS’ portable gaming handheld will, while not being a true successor, feature not only a substantial boost in memory capacity, but also a nice upgrade in the battery department for players who have been frustrated about the lack of playtime delivered by the original device. Lining up with a report that The Verge shared earlier this month, the ROG Ally X will feature a larger battery—80 Wh, to be exact—while its memory is being boosted from 16 GB of LPDDR5-6400 to 24 GB of LPDDR5-7500, marking a 1,100 MHz improvement.
ROG Ally X specs include:
- AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
- 7-inch FHD 120 Hz 500 nit display
- Dolby Vision support
- 1 TB M.2 2280 SSD
- 24 GB LPDDR5 memory @ 7,500 MHz
- 280.2 x 114 x 36.9 mm dimensions
- 678 g weight, 80 Wh battery
- 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 (DP 1.4, PD 3.0)
- 1x USB-C 4.0 (DP 1.4, PD 3.0)
- 23% smaller fan with 50% thinner fins
- Airflow increased by 10%
- Precision D-pad rated for 5 million cycles
A slice of a comparison table that ASUS plans to show, with improvements highlighted:
From a previous report:
…the newly black-colored handheld will have a substantial battery life improvement, Asus SVP Shawn Yen tells The Verge — because Asus will cram a substantially larger battery pack into the Ally X’s revised shell. “We’re not looking at 30 to 40 percent more capacity,” he tells me. “We’re looking at way more than that.”
…the Ally X should now have more than its current 16GB of RAM so that you can allocate lots of it to the GPU without impacting the rest of the system. It should have a longer M.2 2280 SSD slot, so buyers can more easily find and purchase larger SSD upgrades than the current M.2 2230 allows.