Asus unveiled the long-teased ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X at Gamescom 2025 in Cologne, and both handhelds will be available on October 16. The official Xbox website offers an email notification option for availability. Both devices use Windows 11 with a customized setup that includes the Xbox full-screen experience and an Xbox button that opens an enhanced Game Bar overlay in the operating system, and Xbox is collaborating on performance tuning for the hardware.
The ROG Xbox Ally is built around an AMD Ryzen Z2 A-series processor featuring four Zen 2 cores, eight threads and eight RDNA 2 GPU cores. It comes with 16 GB of LPDDR5X-6400 RAM, a 512 GB M.2 SSD and a 60 Wh battery. The higher-end ROG Xbox Ally X uses the AMD Ryzen Artificial Intelligence Z2 Extreme, an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 APU with 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores and an integrated neural processing unit. The Ally X is paired with 24 GB of LPDDR5X-8000 RAM, a 1 TB M.2 SSD and an 80 Wh battery.
Xbox ROG Ally X includes software features aimed at faster load times and better efficiency. Advanced shader delivery preloads a game´s shaders during download so supported titles can launch and run significantly faster on first play, with reports cited up to 10 times improvement in some cases, while also reducing battery use and expanding support over time. The integrated NPU enables Automatic Super Resolution, which upscales frames rendered at lower resolutions to higher-resolution output to help preserve framerate without requiring changes from developers. Availability, performance tuning and broader support for these features are being managed in collaboration with Xbox.
