Why do people act like Steam Deck and ROG Ally don't exist? Lol. We already know mobile chips can run the highest end modern games, there's no debate about that, the ROG Ally even at the lower 15 watts setting can run Alan Wake 2, which is basically the best looking modern game.
And again, you have to understand this is not even the max performance, these games are not optimized properly for hardware, with consoles you get a dev team to actually sit down and tailor make a version of a game specifically to one hardware spec, these are just PC games with settings sliders moved around, if a a dedicated dev team actually sat down and worked on a port for like 6-8 months, fine tuning every area of the game just for one piece of hardware, you'd have better performance than this.
There is a lot of performance being left unused because there's not much optimization here, you have to basically look at this as maybe 75-80% of the actual performance this chip could get. Games like this where you're seeing like 30-40 fps, under proper optimization you could be seeing 50-60 fps if they were traditional consoles.
And this system was widely available over the holidays for $399.99 (for the 512GB version no less), discounted down, you have to figure the actual manufacturing cost is considerably below $400 since ASUS doesn't make money from games.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 11 January 2024
