
The ROG Ally was also shown to fare well with more demanding emulators and games. Dolphin emulator for GameCube and Wii also showed 1080p 60 fps performance at 7 W.

The Ally consumes 13 W at 3x settings but drops down to 7 W when played at the 3DS's original 1x setting. Similar results were achieved with the 3DS Citra emulator, which demonstrates AMD's improvements to OpenGL support. The Ally could play PSP games at 1080p 60 fps while drawing about 7 W of package power. The first emulator tested was PPSSPP, a PlayStation Portable (PSP) emulator. Starting off with Launchbox Big Box on a 512 GB microSD card, the YouTuber demonstrated smooth transitions and easy import of games from various platforms. YouTuber ETA Prime has tested out several emulators on the ROG Ally. What this means is that the ROG Ally can is capable of running popular console emulators, including Xbox 360 Xenia emulator and RPCS3 for the PlayStation 3, while consuming just about 7 W to 15 W power in many cases. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme is more or less akin to the Ryzen 7 7840U, and it supports AVX-512 instructions.

The Asus ROG Ally with the Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU came across as a capable handheld gaming device in our review.
