Hot, Xbox Rog Xbox Ally and Rog Xbox Ally X are joining the handheld party with Nintendo Switch 2’s heels. You can also learn it as Asus Rog Ally 2 or Project Kennan, and Microsoft took a chance in the Xbox Gass showcase, which was to show 2025 launch (value yet unknown) before.
With these two new handheld new chips, a completely full-screen Xbox UI (expected, it means that Windows 11 desktop on the screen with one hand), and has increased considerably, which can make these best gaming handheld that you can buy today.
Let’s get here what you are getting, you are playing on those games, and why Microsoft is finally on the right path to take on steamos.
Rog Xbox Ally: Spects
You are getting new Xbox collaborative in two tastes.
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Social class |
Xbox ally |
Xbox ally x |
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Operating system |
Windows 11 Home |
Windows 11 Home |
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Processor |
AMD Ryzen ™ Z2 a processor |
AMD Ryzen ™ AI Z2 Extreme Processor |
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Memory |
16GB LPDDR5X-6400 |
24GB LPDDR5X-8000 |
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storage |
512GB M.2 2280 SSD (upgradable) |
1TB M.2 2280 SSD (Upgradable) |
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Display |
7 “16: 9 FHD (1080p) IPS, 500 NIT, 120Hz Refresh Rate, FREESYNC Premium, Gorilla Glass Victus + DXC Anti-Rifles |
7 “16: 9 FHD (1080p) IPS, 500 NIT, 120Hz Refresh Rate, FREESYNC Premium, Gorilla Glass Victus + DXC Anti-Rifles |
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Graphics |
AMD Radeon ™ RDNA 3 graphics |
AMD Radeon ™ RDNA 3 graphics with AI Boost |
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Battery |
60Wh |
80Wh |
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I/o port |
2x USB 3.2 General 2 Type-C, MicroSD Reader, 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack |
Thunderbolt 4, 1x USB 3.2 General 2 Type-C, MicroSD Reader (DDR200), 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack 1x USB4 Type-C. |
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network |
Wi-Fi 6E (2×2) + Bluetooth 5.4 |
Wi-Fi 6E (2×2) + Bluetooth 5.4 |
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Audio |
Dual Smart AMP Speaker, Dolby Atomos, AI Shor-Cancer Microphone |
Dual Smart AMP Speaker, Dolby Atomos, AI Shor-Cancer Microphone |
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Dimensions and weight |
11.4 × 4.8 × 1.99 inch, 1.48 pounds |
11.4 × 4.8 × 1.99 inch, 1.48 pounds |
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launch date |
Holiday 2025 |
Holiday 2025 |
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price |
unknown |
unknown |
Rog Xbox Ally: Hardware
If you have seen the Kennan leak project earlier this year, you will not be very surprised by the look of this new handheld. And when other people are saying that it looks like a toy, I actually dig this form factor, as well as with small nodes for Xbox in most Estus aesthetics.
The appropriate controller grips look in such a way that it will give a great hand-gesture-appropriate to hold on something.
So far, the only thing that has come close to establish a good grip is the new AMD-fuel MSI Claw A8, but it is ready to take it to the next level. Oh, and you are getting everything that you will expect from the Xbox controller such as HD HPTix and Hall Effect L and R Triggers.
In front, you have found a 7-inch 1080p panel across the pair, which are the 120Hz refresh rate of Gorilla Glass Victus and IPS screens with protection courtesy. Here are minor port differences, as you are receiving USB4 in the premium model, and in that pricier model, you are also looking at the battery capacity upgraded from 60Wh to 80WH.
And trust me when I say that the new AMD chip requires additional capacity.
Rog Xbox Ally: Software
But when the hardware design only indicates only and there in the Xbox partnership, the software has a dramatic overhaul to deal with some important problems that we have been talking for more than a year. Just what they are to address:
- The experience of desktop Windows 11 does not work well on just one handheld screen. Whether it is Lenovo Legion GoS or Asas Rose Elie X, how much we enjoyed the gameplay, everything stumbles for steam decks because Windows is just lame on a small screen.
- Performance and strength efficiency are interrupted to run an entire OS in the background. I was found that when Rog Ally put steamos on X – the stamina draws it down without a harsh uplift in the frame rates and the height of the windows.
Well, it seems that Microsoft took it on board and finally did something about it again with the engineer Xbox app. Not only you can set it to full screen mode, just to start it, but when you do so, all Windows 11 processes (including desktops) will be disabled. It gives you 2GB RAM back for gaming!
So not only gives you a re-engineer UI that gives you a collected gaming library in a controller-focused design to navigate all your libraries such as steam and game, zippili, but all this is also being abolished by Windows overhead, so you can take maximum benefit of your system’s RAM.
As Jezz Cordon added Windows CentralThe Xbox has confirmed that it is exclusive to the new Xbox app and re-tulled Windows 11 Xbox Ally and Ally X, until other devices such as “Lenovo Legion Go” will also begin to achieve it.
Rog Xbox Ally: Performance
In the context of strengthening the games under the hood, you have received two new new chips from AMD: Ryzen Z2 A and Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme. We have already caught a glimpse of these in Computex, but without NPU to distribute on AI features.
Ryzen Z2 A is a large extent sliced APU that is designed to pack lower-power gaming for Indy title and pack such -4 core/8 threads and configure up to 20 watts on skilled “Zen 2” architecture. However, this means that you are only receiving 5 -year -old RDNA 2 graphics of AMD.
But the real party starts with Ryzen AI Z2 extreme-she is rooted with laptop-centered ryzen AI 9 HX 370 chipset with a new name. For the fastest multitasking on the latest Zen 5 architecture of 8 core/16 threads AMD, the highest power generation at 35 watts, and to double the GPU core count.
Final result? As Microsoft confirmed, Gears of War: Reloaded Cordon’s Windows is capable of running on “fully stable 1080p 60 fps” according to Cordon’s Windows rape. This is AAA console gaming that is on a handheld with Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme!
Rog Xbox Ally: Games
As Xbox CEO Sarah Bond herself said, every game declared in the showcase is Xbox Play. So what is announced in the showcase here.
- Personality 4 revival
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Rebirth
- Call of Duty: Black Oms 7
- Clockwork revolution
- High on life 2
- Ninja Gaden 4
- Gears of War: Reloaded
- Super Meat Boy 3D
- Grounded 2
- constellation
- Keeper (Double Fine)
- No ghost in grandeer
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – Order of the Giants (DLC)
- Chronos: The New Dawn
- Invincible vs.
- At the end of luck
- Resonance: A plague story heritage
- Final Fantasy VII remake intergrad
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Planet of Lana 2
- Animo
And of course, you have the rest of the Xbox game pass library, as well as you bought steam, epic games stores and anything to play.
Rog Xbox Ally: Price and release date
This is a big question that is bothering me. No company gave me the price in Computex, and everyone is calm here too, and it is due to tariffs. No one wants to jump until they are 100% sure what is happening for all their components, and uncertainty is increasing the cost.
Given that they also include complete purchases with a docking station, I will guess and say that the Ryzen Z2 is going to come in a model of about $ 500, and the top of the line can occur anywhere between $ 800- $ 1,000.
Microsoft has confirmed that more goods are being announced soon, so stay for a new case and perhaps some device modes!
Outlook
I have become clear about my problems with Windows Gaming Handheld, and it seems that Microsoft has taken personally.
On paper, these huge touched performance uplift, look incredible with fresh design, which looks real comfortable to catch, and paid to a real attention that Windows is paid that Windows experiences you just to give you the game.
We will learn more when we get some appropriate hands close to the launch of its launch.
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