I tested the ASUS ROG Ally in over 30 Games!

[@Hubwood]

IMPORTANT NOTES: All tests habe been made with BIOS 319, which was the newest Version as of making this video. (The hotfixed Version, which fixed the performance Issues the 319 BIOS initially had!) By now we're at version 323 which has been even better than 322. So the Performance would now be better than what you can see in the video! ALSO: Make sure to set the VRAM to 8GB as this will improve performance in almost ALL games! (It improves the 1% Lows aswell!)

[@iainballas]

Can you do an update 🥺

[@godwhomismike]

Can you do an update and include Genshin Impact and Honkai Rail Star with both medium and high settings?

[@jasonaragon2766]

The biggest problem with most people that don't like the ROG. I love it cause it plays all my games perfectly. Do I care if the FPS drop a little, No as long as the game doesn't stop working. And for those that have trouble setting things up to play the games good just remember it's not a Nintendo Switch. The ROG is a Computer that might have a little problems but not for people that know a little computer knowledge.

[@turnergaming125]

Correct

[@awp-erator4525]

lol imagine. steam deck same fps but 400 dollars cheaper

[@kyleoneill3420]

@@awp-erator4525what’s $400 cheaper??

[@Zionwolves]

MW2 plays with no stutter if you change the VRAM to 8Gb in armoury crate.

[@Evobed562]

I have found all my games to run better on 8gb than 4gb in fact, haven't had any compatibility issues just better performance and no more studders/choppiness

[@Hubwood]

IF that was true (and I'm not saying it's not!😅) that would be weird. The game needs RAM. Not 8gb vram. Especially on these low settings. 🤔 If you use 2 MEGAbyte of vram it should still work the same as it will use regular ram as vram anyways. Shouldn't make a difference.

[@Zionwolves]

@@Hubwood it’s an odd one as most games run fine on 4Gb for me but MW2 and the division 2 for example both run stutter free with 8Gb VRAM, anything less and they have slowdown and stutter. I am hoping we get a 6Gb option as I think that will be a good balance between ram and vram. Some of the newer aaa games defo need more vram to be stutter free.

[@Hubwood]

@@Zionwolves Should really be a Problem of the game then. Because in theory there shouldn't be a difference between 4 or 4000 MB of VRAM on an APU. 🤷‍♂

[@Zionwolves]

@@Hubwood I agree with you but it may be an issue with how the system/windows dynamically scales the memory if/when it needs to peak over the standard 4Gb allocated. Possibly a real time ramp up/down issue

[@everythinggucci3692]

Great video man. Iv been looking for a video like this

[@wadejackson-m4w]

that pre reworked icebox was a trip watching this a year later.

[@HekaWaset]

Thanks for the video. I first thought something must be wring with your ally, cause i get better or similar results on my SD at 15Wt! Then i realised that you probably did your test before the last 2 bios updates.

[@Hubwood]

Yes I did 😅

[@vindicator879]

RDR2 has really impressive optimisation

[@V1CT1MIZED]

The bottleneck in BF 2042 is the power. 30W on a CPU+GPU heavy game means really low clock speeds on both. I found the initial burst up to 42W gave 10 fps more than 30W. I still would rather play 2042 on my desktop, but I was curious on how it could handle it.

[@RohanPL]

Change Vram to 6 gbs put everything on low and change to 720p It's very smooth.

[@milo_andrs]

Honestly, I haven't played that many games. However, my performance for COD was great online and campaign. I also tested GoW and it ran spectacularly. For some reason every KZbinr get different performance metrics.

[@Hubwood]

Thanks for sharing!

[@humanbeing9079]

Excellent testing, you should also note the bios version in the description as the performance has changed sizably since launch.

[@Crosyph]

10:05 if I'm not mistaken you can disable the next-gen update from Steam setting, and still enjoy the previous one

[@ChrisRainHeart]

I don't understand people who are saying that good framerate maters only in fast-paced games. That's not truth - the higher FPS the more realistic and lively any movement become. Game genre or competitiveness means very little. For example both in first-person shooters and fly sim's slideshow is equally ugly.

[@yooWsof]

finally someone did war thunder

[@BayuBaron]

Thanks for benchmarking Cities Skylines!

[@nomaschalupas2453]

for the new gamers coming to pc. if you get 40 fps, lock it at 30, if it runs over 60 but below 120 limit at 60. i dont see a point in using more power then that.

[@JustMikeBro]

If you get 40 lock it at 40. 30 is too stuttery and choppy and not as enjoyable

[@Gingerlion777]

30 fps 60 hz should in practice not be so bad. At least on the deck, it's not stuttering. But on the deck 40 40 is quite the sweet spot.

[@JustMikeBro]

@@Gingerlion777 yeah agreed 30 is playable but if u can get 40 it’s way more enjoyable

[@nomaschalupas2453]

I said for new pc gamers. Once they see the fps counter they will try to get the most and make the experience worse. 30 is what console players have been on till just recently so it’s not gonna matter. It’s only stuffers because you got used to 60 and above. Once you play 30 for a bit it is unnoticeable. Also if you max at 40 I wouldn’t lock it there cause the frame drops if you get to a more intensive spot will most likely occurs that’s why I said down it and not keep it there. All the bad reviews of handhelds and the ally are mainly from un informed people with too high a expectation not the product.

[@Hubwood]

I would only lock it on battery in that case. Or if the fps are really choppy (like on cyberpunk or hogwarts legacy for example) 40 fps is more fluid than 30 on the Ally due to the variable refreshrate. It really adds to the experience.

[@bronsonlejour9239]

This video was a Rollercoaster of emotions lol for every positive he swooped in with a negative constantly

[@Hubwood]

😂😂😂🎢

[@JavierSegura]

Super helpful, thank you!

[@kakaroth80]

One question only that will make me buy it or not: Can you play: the franchise GEAR OF WAR, GOD OF WAR, HALO?

[@Hubwood]

Yes.

[@ryanisright3559]

Is 40fps still a sweet spot like with the steam deck?

[@loktron90]

I play valhalla on High to Ultra, 720p with 120% scale 40-45fps

[@Roman9441]

Thank for video, I think i will wait for may be next gen. Since the game I'm waiting to play is release next year may be next year we will see more powerful handheld and i can merge pc/handheld so I don't have to carry both when Travel.

[@theelaconic]

Were you testing the regular ally or the extreme? Thanks sorry if i missed it!!

[@Hubwood]

The extreme!

[@Hubwood]

(the extreme is the "regular ally." the non extreme version was released later this year.)

[@theelaconic]

@@Hubwood ah okay thank you! Just the extreme and didn't know that.

[@name_christian]

Allie klingt ist ja süß❤

[@shubhamgupta-lr8xy]

All these tests were done on BIOS 319 which isn't really the correct representation of the Ally's true performance potential.

[@Hubwood]

All these tests were done on the FIXED 319 version. (hotfix) 322 came out the day I released the video. Unfortunately I had to send back the review unit in time...

[@Patrick-tw7nr]

If you play on 720p do you upscale using RSR for 1080p

[@agustinarturoreynososantos1514]

Is your left stick wearing out? (on the side that touches the RGB ring while pushing the stick).

[@garyhay6771]

Could it be that you had the resolution on the device set to 720p with rsr on? Then when being g plugged into a 1080p external monitor this would give you your preformace troubles

[@Hubwood]

Maybe. I was trying all combinations. But for the sake of recording I just turned it of, so that it would perform the same way as without an external monitor/capture card.

[@anilksingh650]

Hello, Great video thanks for fine technical analysis, I am trying to play world of warship but can't play...

[@kevinpachuau3066]

How do you get low temperature in almost every game? In other channel with the same game/watt even at low setting their temperature is above 85 °C in almost every games. How did you manage to stable below 80 temperature?

[@dienalee]

Can you make more video Asus ROG Ally Games tested like this?

[@irrichcunanan]

Are you sure you are using fsr correctly? What resolution is your output monitor? If your using fsr on the native screen you need to set your in game resolution to 720 and it will upscale. Make sure ti restart your game to take effect. Majority of the games run and look amazing on high settings.

[@Hubwood]

The output monitor was a capture card. I was using 1080p for it to record the games that way. I'm not questioning the function of rsr, I just found out, that it would often lower the performance by 10-15 when I was using the capture card. And it didn't lower the performance when I was using the internal monitor. So I just turned it of for the sake of recording after a while :) get what I mean?

[@irrichcunanan]

@@Hubwood im more-so questioning your use of fsr. I don’t think you are properly utilizing it. you should be able to play most of those games on your list on high settings at in game res of 720p with fsr upscaling to 1080p and still get high performance(60fps+). You should not need to lower the settings on fsr.

[@Hubwood]

@@irrichcunanan oh you mean fsr and not rsr. I know how to use FSR 😅 Well I can only give you the results that I got. And I'm not a an unskilled pc/laptop user. If I get these results... Others will aswell. I don't have time to tinker around the settings for each single game when testing 30+ games... 😐 The firestrike and time spy results have been perfectly fine. So my unit was working as intended. And I know how to use fsr at 1080 or not use it at 720p... 🤷‍♂️

[@everythinggucci3692]

Are you gonna run them on manual mode??

[@joncruz]

Rog need serious optimization, this hardware is more than capable to do better.

[@Hubwood]

It did get several updates since I made this video! It IS a bit better now.

[@Dennnnis-hm2er]

are you getting the full Power of the Device, since you said in the beginning, that you plugged in a usb hub - doesnt the ally throttle maximum charging speed and the maximum wattage it can use?

[@Hubwood]

Yes this dock allows the Ally to use it's full potential! You can see in the osd, that it's pulling the intended 30w. I also double checked if the dock was causing the performance issue. It didn't performance was the same with the dock or with the ac plugged in directly into the Ally.

[@MTN1601]

I still wonder why Asus didn't put LPDDR5X 7500 into that handheld, that could have maximum advantages for that iGPU

[@Hubwood]

And 32 GB 😪

[@WuExist]

The only thing that sucks with the Ally is the battery life

[@robertsmith-wv2hw]

I want to buy one,do you think a new ROG 2 will be announced anytime soon?I know my luck i will buy one and a new ROG with better battery will be announced.

[@WuExist]

@@robertsmith-wv2hw MSI are releasing a new handheld soon, not sure about a new ROG though.

[@robertsmith-wv2hw]

@@WuExist i saw a few minutes ago on Reddit,they teased a few pics of the handheld.I cant wait for CES next week.

[@uhhh684]

DESTINY 2 would have been such a great game to have on this list.

[@Mattvweiss]

I Play it on mine, it runs beautifully

[@vanderkule2714]

You need to start tuning your system seriously. I'm playing gta 5 at 1080p all settings on very high including population density etc and getting 120+ fps. I'm seeing so many people with one of these and not knowing how to correct the settings. This just tarnishes this great console. Truly disheartened.

[@Hubwood]

Hm thx for letting me know. According to most benchmarks my ally was working as intended. But in gta little changes to the settings can indeed make a big difference. I just don't have the time to fine tune 30 games for a video like that :/ I wish I could...

[@vanderkule2714]

@@Hubwood Completely understandable. A quick easy tool to use that pretty much covers all bases is the universal handheld control panel if that helps out 😊

[@ittbelitt8409]

Yeah okay

[@Alsarmdia]

Watching this to see how strong the Lenovo legion is gonna be

[@Hubwood]

Stronger ;)

[@CGRFilmsStudios]

Could you please do a video showcasing games at 1440p medium settings with just the IGPU on external monitor? Even if they run badly, I'd be really curious to see like a couple dozen game examples to really get an idea of how well it can work at 1440p and say a bunch of old games and new games and simple games like Rocket League, Sons Of The Forest, the original Alan Wake, and Guilty Gear Strive. Really interested in this as my first windows PC and curious how far I can stretch it in this way! Thanks a lot of your videos

[@milo_andrs]

Is a machine designed for max 1080p, why would you even bother to push it beyond? Probably already know the results.

[@CGRFilmsStudios]

@@milo_andrs Hi, please check out ETAPRIME's video about running some old games at 1440p, it works but only he only has a couple examples, so asking around for more to see how well it really works. A cheap handheld that can run a bunch of games at 1440p docked would really work for what I need/can afford right now :D

[@desertbum8]

@@CGRFilmsStudios Most games it won't handle unless they are extremely minimal. You're lucky to get 1080p 60 with decent graphics settings.

[@tonypv9303]

BIOS 323 better than 319 by far far away. Boost performance about 10-15% and FSR looks very well. Diablo 4 looks great and very good fps

[@Rohan1s495]

Exactly, if this test is again conducted with BIOS 323 , performance is much better

[@Lazy_eu]

Turbo mode on battery have 25W not 30W

[@migookman]

ROG Alley

[@Hubwood]

Yeah yeah yeah I know... German pronouncation. Effed it up ;)

[@haiderahmed1240]

something not right with your test as I play FIFA 23 1080P Low at 25W and I get 70-75 FPS while on 15W with same settings I get approx 50 FPS

[@Gtaaccounts2344]

Which is the best ram on the ASUs ROG when playing rainbow six seige and fc 24 because it lags

[@geoffreyjohnstone5465]

Super impressed with the video, kudos to you. Also very impressed with the performance of a handgeld device. I imagine that games will soon start to be written with handhelds in mind rather than just generic PCs. If you look at the quality of Switch games then imagine what COULD be done if games were written specifically with a 20w to 25W TDP in mind. Come on developers, write some handheld specific games.....or patch existing games for improved efficiency

[@MFHZulkarnaenfadhil]

Please do a test on rog flow x13 rtx4070 unplugged on battery 🙏🏻

[@Hubwood]

I wish I could. It's not available in Germany 😢

[@frankcoley1537]

Did you test Path of Exile?

[@FFMPlug]

Ist das der Turbo Modus oder welcher Modus des ally?

[@Hubwood]

Ja, eingesteckt und turbo. Aber seit dem Video gab es ein BIOS Update. Außerdem erhöht das einstellen von 8gb vram in fast allen Spielen offsnsicht weiter die Performance. Man kann also gut 5-15% fps drauf rechnen.

[@needhelp123]

do u have z1 or the z1 extreme, these results look like they are from the non extreme version.

[@Hubwood]

Z1 extreme. Defenitely.

[@robertpayne6781]

Could someone please tell me why Tomb Raider is so often used for benchmarks?

[@conorwright5297]

need some game suggestions for my rog ally i already have a ton of steam games and what not just need to know good games to play through on it

[@Hubwood]

From my personal experience almost all 3rd person games are really working fine on it. Like Hogwarts legacy, horizon zero dawn, the last of us, etc. Or Sports games, and racing games. Especially because I personally would not play fast fps shooters on it. Or strategy games. 2d and 2,5d Plattformers work really well aswell.

[@flockesempire]

Just bought on from Kleinanzeigen just to be able to play Fallout "on the go" REALLY disappointed the franchise was never ported to the switch...😗

[@Djfoggui]

Hello I can't play Warzone. 2. In rog ally , the controls don't respond please help

[@dark2deeds]

iam loving the ally for emulation but big AAA games it sometimes sucks

[@thoru4367]

Did you update your Bios?

[@Hubwood]

It was bios 319. 322 just was released the same day I uploaded this video...

[@thoru4367]

@@Hubwood forums says that you have to update bios to gain more fps

[@TheMagnificentGman]

Z1 or Z1 Extreme?

[@Hubwood]

Z1 extreme but old Video! Better drivers and bios are now available. It became faster.

[@connorgriffiths3203]

Could this run Total War franchise???

[@sadiemicoalvin8695]

hi is this the non extreme version?

[@Hubwood]

The extreme version, but old video with early driver's and BIOS. Performance is now better. Check out my newe videos where I compare it with the MSI claw for example

[@ilhambuono5451]

show me a memory bandwidth benchmark, since IF runs at 800mhz, so low

[@Hubwood]

You have to multiply that by 8. It's 6400 mhz. The osd can't display that correctly.

[@ilhambuono5451]

@@Hubwood i know that, what i mean is That infinity fabric runs desync and at 1:4 mode, Even at 2Ghz infinity fabric can't utilize ddr5 ram bandwidth properly

[@IAMBOUTTA]

I play on a xbox that has a tv that cant really go above 60 and has stutters all the time because it tries to go over that so im fine with 40-60 fps with stutters, and i like playibg games on my crappy laptop that it cant play to see how bad it lags so im also used to 8 fps

[@metathanatos1]

these portable pcs: Rog ally, steam deck and lenovo legion go should have used 32gb of ram

[@Hubwood]

Yeah they should have...

[@martinhirineo-ortiz1105]

Rog eli

[@kenesufernandez1281]

❤

[@AnilSingh-h6w]

Hi Hubwood, Great video thank you for such a great video, I have downloaded World of warship but it's not working with Asus rog ally console can you please try and see if some setting is required, Thank you for your time.

[@richardmorales8016]

Does it run 1080p at 120hz?

[@richardmorales8016]

On a monitor?

[@midphoenix]

Boy you don't even know on how much lower FPS i have played games on.I have played Metro Exodus on 20FPS,if some thing is providing anything above 35fps i will take it.

[@Hubwood]

😅 that's fine

[@milanszkoklik2511]

I play god of war on 900p and rsr with high texture and other settings on original

[@denshaSai]

No overwatch?

[@name_christian]

I’d be really interested in who really is playing at 25W+ . It’s a mobile device with a small battery. So 15w max is a more suitable test I suppose. 🤷‍♂️. But seeing what this device is capable of makes sense

[@Hubwood]

Yeah i wished I would have time to test all games with more of the Performance Modes... but even with only one this video took almost 2 weeks to finish ;)

[@name_christian]

@@Hubwood I bet! Thanks for the effort! I really enjoy your videos! 👍

[@CJTheTokay]

Well it’s a pc with controllers it’s not really a console or a mobile device at max tdp it’s at 1650 performance which isn’t the best at running triple a games so anything below that isn’t gonna run extremely I intend on using the max tdp to get the 1650 performance

[@nomaschalupas2453]

anyone who is smart enough to plug it in will use it that way. laptops are meant for the go too but how many use one at home plugged in as a main pc? MANY!

[@HSSDamian]

I don't know anyone who is using this as a mobile device. You get an hour of juice out of at best. I've not had it off the charger since I got it last month.

[@rannarharmaste9857]

seems FSR performance often does not improve FPS as much as it should. probably running into mem bandwidth bottleneck? in this case better to use higher resolution FSR modes to improve picture quality

[@polyplaybox1081]

Es heisst "AAAAllie", nicht "Elli" :D aber gutes video

[@Hubwood]

Ja ich weiss, inzwischen hab ich's verinnerlicht. Nach den 376.871 Kommentaren die mich drauf hingewiesen haben 🙈

[@jigglypancakes1679]

Is it the rog alley or ally

[@Bl4ckH4nd]

Yes

[@NamTran-xc2ip]

🎉

[@johnfreeman5956]

What I don't get from AMD is that the Z1 extreme has 8 zen4 cores which is wayyy overkill for a handheld. I thought they slashed the cores to 6 or 4 while keeping the iGPU the same for better performance.

[@LuminousSpace]

well its good tho, i can emulate pretty much every switch game now

[@johnfreeman5956]

@@LuminousSpace I'm pretty sure a 6C/12T zen4 cpu can also do the same but with more power to the GPU

[@armandoyanez592]

U have something bad with ur ally bc on my ally the fifa in 1080p medium settings run in 73 fps

[@Hubwood]

Yeah I think something went wrong with fifa there 🤔

[@jamest6089]

cant go from 100+ fps to 50-60, not 2012 anymore sorry

[@Hubwood]

No handheld for you then ;)

[@jamest6089]

😇😇@@Hubwood

[@gawsss]

Still no TW WH3 gameplay

[@Hubwood]

Yeah sorry I neither have it not play it ;) and I just can't test every single game out there :(

[@gawsss]

@@Hubwood it's ok. if youjust have time to demo it :)

[@rogally305]

How to download games in rog ally?

[@Hubwood]

I was using an external M.2 SSD via a USB Hub :)

[@glittlehoss]

Can you test deathloop

[@Youtube-Censorship-Police]

the overall 1% lows are kinda disappointing tbh, not too hapy with the results, not worth selling my good ol' steam deck. though thanks for the huge test-spree and the informative & entertaining video!

[@Hubwood]

Performance has improved by quite alot though. New bios updates. And using 8gb ore allocated vram does help alot aswell. Check the videos by the channel "filterless". And say hi for me ;)

[@Someguyy2225]

YOUR DOING GR8

[@DeadGyt]

Bro didn't play spiderman 😢

[@Hubwood]

😔 I might do a small revisit of this video in a few weeks with new drivers. Maybe I can add it. But no guarantees and might take a while. Sorry!

[@SonicDestiny]

too weak for that price. You might as vell grab much cheaper steam deck for much better battery and Convenience.

[@asrr62]

Idk why you would buy this and use a monitor and mouse.

[@AltoBo123]

A LAI reeeeeeeereeeeee

[@Hubwood]

Yeeeees I knooooooow! I pronounced it wroooooong! I neeeeed toooo beeee cruuuuciiiifiiied!

[@_wolfyishere]

Asus rog ali

[@Hubwood]

yeah yeah yeah I pronounced it the "german way" back then. Sorry! Fixed that in future videos ;)

[@akneticgaming3186]

Didnt get 1% low still

[@Hubwood]

You can see them in the video....

[@Galatasaray--]

Can you install cm01/02 on this ?

[@jeanbiroute]

Allie ≠ Ally

[@Hubwood]

Yeah yeah it's just my weird pronouncation 😂

[@Untold-History-TV]

agreed thats painful to hear.. ==> "AL-eye."

[@wretchedslippage3255]

I'm not paying 800 bucks to play games on low at 25fps tho lol wtf

[@vexcarius7100]

Cities: Skylines has the worst optimization. Can’t expect anything from that game.

[@Hubwood]

Yeah tbh I was quite disappointed 😬

[@bekrah5961]

Having to resort to 720p for ANY game on a 1080p device is unacceptable in this day and age.

[@leorewinski7768]

It’s pronounced A-lie not A-lee

[@Hubwood]

I knoooow (that by now 😂). Pronounced it the German way. Sorry 🥴

[@Hubwood]

Now everybody is looking weirdly at me when I say : "Ho-lie-wood is on strike". Need further instructions.

[@NGEvangeliman]

Lol redfall

[@MarkWebbJr]

TURN ON 8GB in ARMOURY CRATE!! Your testing the device on 4GB of RAM!!

[@Hubwood]

No. No. No. If you always allocate 8GB as vram, the system and games will only have 8gb of ram left, which will be a problem in many games. You should not do that as a default setting.

[@TYTYSCARED]

o get 160 avg on all low 900p fortnite

[@rafalperfidny11]

why play beautiful games on the lowest details? It will kill the game

[@Hubwood]

Old video. Drivers and bios were bad...

[@The1just12]

Because of gameplay, I love to play good looking games on lower graphic settings if it means I can play mobile. If you are going for max graphics get at gaming laptop/pc

[@ahmedamer3850]

Ally not Ali

[@Hubwood]

Yeah yeah I know ;)

[@Hubwood]

Now everybody is looking weirdly at me when I say : "Holl-Eye-Wood is on strike". Need further instructions.

[@honestclickbait8243]

I cringe every time he said ALLY as ALLEY.

[@Hubwood]

Yeah yeah I know. Pronounced it "German"...sorry 😂

[@Hubwood]

Now everybody is looking weirdly at me when I say : "Holl-Eye-Wood is on strike". Need further instructions.