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| shikamaru317 said: Looking through the technical specs and benchmarks of the Z1 Extreme chipset vs the Z2 Extreme chipset, I personally wouldn't recommend upgrading from the ROG 1 to the ROG 2, I'm seeing only a modest 14% gap in single-threaded CPU performance and an even smaller gap of 7% in multi-threaded CPU performance, while the GPU goes up from 4.14 tflops to 5.5 tflops. TDP seems a bit higher on the Z2 Extreme as well, so probably lower battery life. Current owners are better off waiting a few more years before upgrading to a new PC handheld. Not sure about the comparison of the lower end Z1 vs the Z2, but probably no bigger an upgrade than Z1 Extreme to Z2 Extreme is. |
It's probably not going to be worth upgrading from an ally x, maybe not original ally either, though the original ally wasn't very comfortable and has awful battery life so maybe worth upgrading for that even if the power bump isn't much.
For people on steam deck it would be a very nice bump in power though. I got rid of my ally after trying the steam deck oled because it's more comfortable and has way better battery life. The Ally X supposedly addressed those issues but I've not used one.
If this new ally has decent battery life and I can install steamos on it I'd be interested, though I'm expecting it to be out of my price range.
