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Last year, Asus and Xbox worked together to launch the Asus ROG Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X, and the latter is still one of the best handheld gaming PCs on the market right now. Not only is is great at playing games, but even amid the RAMpocalypse, the Xbox Ally X hasn’t gone up…

After spending time with the original ROG Ally, the ROG Ally X, and more recently the ROG Xbox Ally, ASUS has only so many ways to keep reshaping the same basic handheld idea before the differences start to feel minor. The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X20 avoids that problem, combining substantial hardware upgrades with a…

When Valve took a year to redo its original Steam Deck from 2022, it didn’t just go about adding a better screen. The Steam Deck OLED included redesigned sticks, a modified chip, and an improved battery that could handle the new screen. Asus decided to go the same route, but its $300 upgrade over the…

Due to the ongoing RAM crisis, handheld gaming PCs have long parted ways with affordability. But that hasn’t stopped vendors like Asus from putting out revisions to their existing lineups. The latest is the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 ($1,299), a swanky gold-and-black repackaging of last year’s Editors’ Choice-award-winning Asus ROG Xbox Ally X. Now it…

TAIPEI, Taiwan, October 15, 2026–ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) is proud to announce that the ROG XBOX Ally X20 is today available for purchase. A handheld that’s both a throwback to gaming two decades ago and a vision of what’s next, it’s housed in a translucent black chassis with a vibrant gold internal structure. The…

Asus has released a new version in its ROG Xbox Ally range, a handheld PC capable of playing games across a variety of different platforms.

The updated version of the OG Microsoft-sanctioned Windows gaming handheld, the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X, hits a lot of high points for the category, combining the comfortable controls and layout of the original with a great new OLED display. But while I really like it, the ROG Xbox Ally X20 falls short of having…

Nintendo currently dominates the handheld gaming market with the Switch family of consoles, but it faces stiff competition from platforms such as the Steam Deck and the ROG Xbox Ally. While the former is considered a handheld gaming PC, the latter is touted as a mobile Xbox, raising the question of how its GPU compares…

A ROG Xbox Ally X paired with a Radeon RX 9070 XT eGPU averaged 151 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 at 3440×1440 using FSR upscaling and frame generation. The docked setup demonstrates the handheld’s graphics potential, but the figure doesn’t represent native rendering performance or establish results without frame generation.