S, the ROG Xbox Ally will ship in two models: one aimed for power users (Ally X), and a cheaper model (Ally, shown here) with

Inside the Xbox Ally X is an AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme processor, a custom version of its Z2 Extreme chip with eight Zen 5 CPU cores, 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, and 50 AI TOPS from the onboard NPU to help with a range of AI tasks. It'll have Copilot built in, too, so expect some chatbot integration.

Back in March, we outlined six features we wanted to see on what was then just a rumored Xbox-branded, Windows-powered handheld gaming device. Today, Microsoft's announcement of the Asus ROG Xbox Ally hardware line looks like it fulfills almost all of our wishes for Microsoft's biggest foray into portable gaming yet.