Steam Deck vs. ASUS ROG Ally Arch Linux Gaming Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 5 July 2023 at 02:00 PM EDT. Page 6 of 6. 39 Comments.

Lastly for curiosity sake are some CPU benchmarks between the Steam Deck and ROG Ally on Arch Linux / SteamOS... Not gaming handheld relevant but curious about the CPU capabilities of these SoCs. To no surprise the ROG Ally performs much better with having twice the core/thread count of the Steam Deck's VanGogh APU while also being based on Zen 4 (complete with AVX-512 for this handheld) compared to Zen 2.

miniBUDE benchmark with settings of Implementation: OpenMP, Input Deck: BM1. ROG Ally - Perf was the fastest.

OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: particle_volume/ao/real_time. ROG Ally - Perf was the fastest.

OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/pathtracer/real_time. ROG Ally - Perf was the fastest.

The performance profile really drives up the performance but again the power use peaked at around 53 Watts for the CPU benchmarks.

CPU Power Consumption Monitor benchmark with settings of Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring.

Here is also a look at the impact on the peak CPU frequency being recorded:

CPU Peak Freq (Highest CPU Core Frequency) Monitor benchmark with settings of Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring.

The Steam Deck was topping out at 3.5GHz compared to 5.0GHz with the ROG Ally, besides the ROG Ally having twice the CPU cores and Zen 4 based microarchitecture.

More ASUS ROG Ally benchmarks and other follow-up articles to come on Phoronix.

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