News New Asus ROG Ally Model Confirms AMD's Z1 Is Much Slower Than Z1 Extreme

[Admin]

Asus has unveiled gaming benchmarks of its new lower-end ROG Ally sporting AMD's Ryzen Z1 (non-extreme) SoC, confirming that the Z1 is a lot slower compared to the Z1 Extreme, due to the Z1's significantly lower specced GPU.

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[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

15% lower cost for 30% less performance. What a deal!

 

[mcmlai]

15% lower cost for 30% less performance. What a deal!

Well, depends how you word it. 15% more will get you 30% more performance. That is a great deal!

 

[Sluggotg]

$700 vs $600, I would just spend the extra 100. There is a significant difference in performance. If you can afford a luxury item like this, the extra 100 should be doable. I always like Asus! One of the better computer parts companies.

 

[salgado18]

But what about battery duration? It only makes sense if the Z1 lasts a lot longer. I'd get one if it lasted a lot more with one charge, but if it lasts almost the same, then the Z1 version is a bad product (or just too expensive)

 

[jk47_99]

This seems to follow the same strategy as graphics cards. The "cheaper" model is just there to upsell to the more expensive one, until it will obviously drop in price once enough of the top model has sold.

 

[AgentBirdnest]

Is anyone else surprised/confused that the Z1 Extreme has 200% more CUs, but only 30% more performance?

 

[Amdlova]

I will wait for the switch 2 asus things don't have good support. When come a new one of these the old one goes to the bin.

 

[Phaaze88]

The performance metric is an average though, so depending on what the user will play, it could be higher(good) or lower(bad) than that. The price difference is what it is.
Great deal? ~Ehh, looks pretty 'meh' to me.

 

[George³]

Is anyone else surprised/confused that the Z1 Extreme has 200% more CUs, but only 30% more performance?

RAM speed is bottleneck. No surprise.

 

[jeremyj_83]

Is anyone else surprised/confused that the Z1 Extreme has 200% more CUs, but only 30% more performance?

This isn't surprising at all. Even though the Extreme has a lot more GPU resources, it is held back by RAM bandwidth. If it has dedicated GDDR6 then it would be much faster.

 

[AgentBirdnest]

Ah, the memory didn't occur to me. Thank you both for answering that. : )