The ASUS Rog Ally X is the second iteration of the popular handheld gaming system. Source: ASUS
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While only on the market for a few years, the ASUS Rog Ally has become a staple among the handheld gaming consoles in the video game segment.
In 2025, ASUS released its latest iteration but in 2024 it released the Rog Ally X, a design upgrade that offered ergonomic and performance upgrades over the original design. It also offers better grips, larger and more lasting battery, a more powerful process with the AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme processor with 24 GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD for storage.
For more details on the handheld gaming console, TechInsights conducted a teardown of the device. What follows is a partial look into this deep dive from TechInsights.
Summary
- 7-inch TFT w/touchscreen (1080/1920 pixels, 16777216 colors)
- 24 GB LPDDR5 SDRAM
Released: July 2024
Price: $799
Availability: Worldwide
Target market: Gaming
The main board found inside the ASUS Rog Ally X. Source: TechInsights
Main board
The main board houses the processors and main memory of the ASUS Rog Ally X gaming console. The electronics components found on this board include:
- AMD’s 3.3 GHz Octo-core applications processor
- Monolithic Power Systems’ MOSFET driver
- Kandou’s USB retimer
- Kinetic Technologies’ OVP load switch
- Texas Instruments’ USB Type-C and USB 2.0 switch, temperature sensor
- Renesas’ buck-boost battery charger
- Silergy’s synchronous step-down regulator
- Genesys Logic’s card reader controller
- RichTek’s adjustable step-down DC-DC converter and audio CODEC
- ITE Tech’s embedded controller with memory
- Bosch Sensortec’s six-axis MEMS accelerometer and gyroscope
- SK Hynix’s multichip memory 6 GB mobile LPDDR5 SDRAM
- Infineon’s 3 amp synchronous buck regulator
- Nexperia’s single-two-input AND gate
- Winbond’s serial flash memory
(Learn more about MEMS on Globalspec.com)
The touchscreen display board found inside the ASUS Rog Ally X. Source: TechInsights
Display/touchscreen board
The following components are found on the display board inside the ASUS Rog Ally X:
- Novaetek’s backlight LED driver and display power management
- igaDevice’s serial flash memory
(Learn more about power management ICs on Globalspec.com)
The SSD subsystem found inside the ASUS Rog Ally X. Source: TechInsights
SSD subsystem
The SSD card inside the ASUS Rog Ally X is a 1TB hard drive that contains space for games to be loaded onto the device. The electronic components on this subsystem include:
- Silicon Motion’s PCIe SSD controller
- Samsung’s power management IC and Multichip memory module
- Texas Instruments’ digital temperature sensor
(Learn more about memory ICs on Globalspec.com)
Some of the components that are included in the ASUS Rog Ally X. Source: TechInsights
Major components
- $260.62 — 3.3 GHz Octa-Core application processor — AMD — Z1 EXTREME (Qty: 1)
- $92.31 — SSD subsystem — Samsung (Qty: 1)
- $54.20 — Multichip memory — 6 GB mobile LPDDR5 SDRAM — SK Hynix (Qty: 1)
- $21.05 — 120 Hz display/touchscreen subsystem — Tianma Microelectronics (Qty: 1)
- $13.07 — Battery subsystem — Dynapack Electronic Technology (Qty: 1)
- $9.20 — Heat sink (Qty: 1)
- $7.32 — Wi-Fi/BT subsystem — MediaTek (Qty: 1)
- $5.89 — 12-layer conventional FR4/HF — AOSHIKANG TECHNOLOGY (Qty: 1)
- $4.35 — Fingerprint subsystem (Qty: 1)
- $4.07 — Small passive: Cap, Res, Ferrite (Qty: 1017)
