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Asus ROG Ally gaming handheld is set to launch in India on July 12 at a starting price of Rs 69,990.
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Asus ROG Ally is coming to India on July 12. The ROG Ally was launched globally on June 13. It is Asus’s answer to Valve’s Steam Deck.
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The ROG Ally is designed for portable on-the-go graphics intensive AAA gaming both locally and over the cloud. Asus is promising to “revolutionise gaming in India’s esports community” with the handheld.
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The ROG Ally handheld comes with a 7-inch 1080p IPS display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 7ms response time. FreeSync is available. You also get Gorilla Glass Victus screen protection.
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The ROG Ally packs AMD’s 4nm Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor which is based on its Zen 4 architecture and comes with 8 cores (16 threads). This can go up to 5.10GHz (up to 30W TDP).
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A more standard 6-core Z1 configuration is also available.
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You get AMD’s Radeon RDNA3 GPU (4GB) and 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM. Storage tops out at 512GB M.2 NVME Gen4 SSD. This is further expandable through micro-SD.
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Connectivity options include Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, USB Type-C (Gen 3.2), and 3.5mm audio jack. Powering the handheld is a 40Wh battery which is claimed to offer up to 2 hours of “heavy gaming” and up to 6.8 hours of video playback. Fast charging is supported.
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You can hook the handheld to the company’s XG Mobile external GPUs for what is being billed as “high-fidelity 4K gaming”.
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The ROG Ally price in India will start at Rs 69,990. The handheld will launch broadly on July 12 and available to buy across Asus’s e-store, exclusive and ROG offline stores and also on Flipkart. Asus will host a 1-day “Flipkart Flash sale” on July 7, giving potential buyers early access to the handheld. (Photos credit: Asus)