ASUS ROG Ally handheld console will have AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU

Manifestos for ASUS ROG Ally handheld discovered by Videocardz mentioned that the upcoming model RC71L will ship with the Ryzen 7 7840 CPU.

The upcoming APU of the Phoenix Z1 series has made its first appearance on the Geekbench benchmark database. It packs 8 Zen4 cores with 16 threads, a clock speed 3.30GHz, and boost clock speeds of 5.05 GHz. The APU has 16MB of L3 cache and 8 MB of L2 cache and is equipped with 12GB of DDR5 memory.

The iGPU has 12 RDNA 3 compute units at 800MHz clock speeds, which could very well be the base clock as the RDNA 3 generally runs over 2GHz across various implementations with the Phoenix CPUs.

The manufacturer ASUS: mentioned in the release video that they were going to equip the ROG Ally with the “fastest custom-made APU” yet. The renders make it look like a custom version of the Rembrandt series or Phoenix APUs.

ASUS ROG Ally handheld console to come with AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU
The Z1 processor benchmarks on Geekbench for the ASUS ROG Ally handheld

Since the iGPU is based on the RDNA 3 architecture, RSR and FSR upscaling technologies are confirmed. This will double the performance when compared to its competitor Steam Deck.

At half the power, it is set to develop a 50% performance boost over the Steam Deck. The ASUS ROG Ally handheld is set to come out sooner than expected.

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