Steam Deck vs. ASUS ROG Ally Arch Linux Gaming Performance

First up was Counter-Strike: Global Offensive running on these handhelds with the Vulkan renderer. The Steam Deck managed to run at around 109 FPS for this first person shooter game at the native 1280 x 800 resolution. The ROG Ally meanwhile managed to run at around 134 FPS out-of-the-box or up to a 146 FPS average when running with the "performance" ACPI Platform Profile. So around 23% faster for CS:GO out-of-the-box with the ROG Ally powered by the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme.

With the Cyberpunk 2077 game running on the devices via Steam Play the Steam Deck and ROG Ally performance was close out of the box at around 45 FPS but with the performance ACPI Platform Profile was much more fluid at above a 60 FPS average.

Interestingly though the Steam Deck was delivering better performance-per-Watt than either ROG Ally configuration.

With high quality settings at 1280 x 800, the ROG Ally was slightly faster than the Steam Deck or much more so with the performance profile. The Steam Deck though was delivering much better performance-per-Watt.