So I was looking to by hand held pc Should I buy Rog ally z1 vs streem deck I will play Forza horizon Fortnight F1 Fifa Also I will use xbox game pass and emulate switch
So I was looking to by hand held pc Should I buy Rog ally z1 vs streem deck I will play Forza horizon Fortnight F1 Fifa Also I will use xbox game pass and emulate switch
So is stream deck less powerful at 30 w tdp
Steamdeck only can go to 15 w tdp asus rog ally can go to 30 w tdp this is why the power increase.
The Steam Deck uses a 15W TDP APU. The Z1 Extreme is a 30W APU. More watts means more performance, so it’s not like there’s anything particularly special about the silicon in something like the Ally. It’s actually a laptop chip in there. It’s intended for a device with a much bigger battery. If you constrain it to the same 15W as the Steam Deck, performance is virtually identical. The Deck OLED, actually pulls ahead in some cases, and still is more efficient.
As such, it really boils down to a battery life issue. If you care about long battery life, the Deck is the only answer. If you’re fine always being tethered to a wall outlet or plan to use it mostly docked, then yeah, you can kick the Z1 Extreme up and go to town, just don’t expect it to last even an hour on battery like that.