Asus India has officially confirmed via its official Twitter handle that the ROG Ally is launching on July 7 in the Indian markets and will be exclusively available from Flipkart India.
On the 1st of April, Asus posted a teaser of its very first PC gaming handheld under the ROG (Republic of Gamers) brand– the ROG Ally. But everyone thought it was an April Fool’s Joke, later the brand confirmed that the ROG Ally company’s first gaming console is real.
Many people still can’t able to believe on this and yes the brand says that this PC gaming handheld is a rival to the Steam Deck. Even Asus claims that the ROG Ally will offer 2x more performance compared to the Steam Deck.
Talking about specs, The ROG Ally handheld device runs on Windows 11 out of the box which means all the cloud-based gaming services will work (including Xbox and Steam cloud gaming) on the ROG Ally.
In terms of performance, Asus says that the ROG Ally PC gaming console is powered by a custom AMD’s Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme chips based on a 4nm architecture paired with a ROG X6 mobile eGPU. It has a 7-inch IPS LCD FHD resolution display with 120Hz refresh rate support.
The Ryzen Z1 (12/256GB) model starts at $600 while the Ryzen Z1 Extreme (16/512GB) is priced at $700 in the US. Pricing for the Indian market will reveal on the launch day and it will available for sale via Flipkart.
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