Asus ROG Ally X handheld gaming console with improved cooling, bigger battery launched in India: Price, specs

Asus ROG Ally X

After launching its first gaming handheld device in India last year, Taiwanese computer hardware company Asus has launched the ROG Ally X in India. It has an improved design and boasts double the battery capacity with a faster 24GB LPDDR5x RAM over the first-generation model.

The ROG Ally X runs the Windows 11 operating system and is powered by the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme, also present on last year’s ROG Ally. It competes against the MSI Claw and Lenovo Legion Go, which were also recently introduced in India.

Asus ROG Ally X: Price, availability

The ASUS ROG Ally X is priced at Rs 89,990 in India. It is now available for purchase on Amazon, Flipkart, ASUS Online Store, ASUS ROG Offline Stores, and other partner retailers across India.

Asus ROG Ally X: Features, specs

The Asus ROG Ally X comes with Zen 4 architecture-based AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Processor. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, a total cache of 24MB, and can boost up to 5.10 GHz. The handheld also has a Radeon 780M iGPU with 12 Compute Units, providing enhanced portable gaming performance.

The biggest upgrade on the ASUS ROG Ally X is with its 80Wh battery, which is two times the battery of the original ROG Ally. It supports 100W fast charging, but Asus has bundled a 65W charging adapter in the box. Additionally, it has 24GB LPDDR5X RAM in a dual-channel configuration and 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD. The ROG Ally X also supports further storage expansion of up to 4TB via an external memory card.

It also has a 7-inch Full HD 10-point touchscreen 120 Hz panel with 500 nits peak brightness. In terms of connectivity, the Ally X gets a Type C USB 4 port, a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C support, a UHS-II microSD card reader, and a 3.5mm Audio jack.