Geekbench listing shows ASUS ROG Ally variant with slower CPU and GPU

Two versions of the ASUS ROG Ally have appeared on Geekbench, one with fewer CPU cores and GPU compute units than the other version. There have been rumors for some time about two variants of the gaming handheld.

The Geekbench listings talk about a ROG Ally with Ryzen Z1 soc and a version with Ryzen Z1 Extreme soc. Both SoCs contain a Zen 4-based Ryzen Z1 APU with an integrated RDNA3 GPU. However, the Extreme SoC has more cores that run at a higher clock speed and a GPU with more compute units.

The Extreme version has eight CPU cores with a base clock of 3.3GHz and a turbo clock speed of 5.1GHz, according to the Geekbench listing. The regular variant would have six cores with a base clock of 3.2GHz. The turbo clock speed here would be 4.9GHz.

With the GPU the difference would be even greater. The Geekbench listing mentions six compute units for the Extreme variant, but Geekbench halves the actual amount of Cus. In practice, the ROG Ally Extreme would have twelve compute units. The regular ROG Ally would have a total of four compute units, three times less than the Extreme variant.

The ROG Ally previously appeared at an Indonesian inspection body, the specifications of which correspond to the Extreme version that has now appeared on Geekbench. According to the testing agency, the handheld would have 16GB of memory. ASUS has said that the device will have a 7-inch display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, a refresh rate of 120Hz and a brightness of 500cd/m².

ASUS has not yet announced anything about the arrival of two variants with different specifications; so it is unknown whether they will both be released worldwide and what the price difference is. The manufacturer recently said that the handheld should be released worldwide ‘soon’.