(NEW BIOS VERSIONS!) ASUS ROG ALLY vs. LENOVO LEGION GO

a lot of people did have complaints below my first comparison between these two handhelds and the reason for that is that I used an old bias version for the r Ali which is because that was the newest version when I recorded the Ali footage and was replaced by a faster one like 3 days before I published my video however I promised to redo this video Once both handhelds did get further bias updates and some of the results really surprised me so here we are let's go this is hubwood but before we begin the bias for the r Li was version 335 from early December this time and the version for the legion go was N3 cn28 ww from early December as well I was also using the newest officially available AMD radon graphic drivers for both of them now when you are watching this video there might even be newer bias versions available already as L noo is really working very hard on that these days but I think that at least the performance in most games won't differ that much anymore from what you can see today considering the legion go there might have been some big changes in terms of functionality though but that's a different topic and not part of this video and also some people were complaining that I was only testing the games at 720p so today we are both looking at 720p and 1080p and each of these with both the 30 W performance custom modes and also the 15 W balanced mode on both devices well except for Avatar and you will shortly see why however it is important to keep in mind that the legion go has a higher resolution screen so it would always have to push out a few more pixels compared to the r Ali even when using the lowest resolutions for both handhelds which would be 720p for the Ali and 800p for the legion go or 1080p for the Ali and 1200p for for the legion go if we use them without an external monitor or a capture card which is around 11% more pixels to render for the legion go let alone its native 1600p resolution I was again recording the footage via an external capture card so that the performance is identical to using the integrated screen only both handhelds have been plugged in for all tests as well and I've set the vram for both devices to 6 GB this time with the exception of baldos Gate 3 where you really really want to set it to 3 GB instead believe me furthermore I've set the fan Curves in both devices to the maximum fan speed and without further blah blah let's just jump right into the benchmarks round two fight now the first game we're going to look at today is going to be the brand new Assassin's Creed Mirage which really works pretty well on both handhelds and at 720p medium settings and FSR quality with the 30 W performance profiles activated I saw an average of 69 FPS with 1% lows of around 44 FPS for the RG Ali and 70 FPS on average with 1% lows of around 40 FPS for the Lenovo Legion go which is absolutely perfectly playable for sure even on medium settings and running the 15 wat balanced mode seemed to work all right as well in that scenario with 51 FPS on average for the ri Ali and 53 FPS on average for the leion go with 1% lows over around 27 to 30 FPS for both of them and even at 1080p with medium settings and FSR on performance using the 30 watt modes the game was performing Pretty okay on both handhelds with an average of 61 FPS on the lii with 1% lows of 33 FPS and 63 FPS on average with 1% lows of 38 FPS on the legion go and last but not least using the 15w balanced mode with identical settings the Ali still scored 45 FPS whereas the legion go fell way behind in that case with only 36 FPS on average but spoiler up front in other games it looked a lot better for the legion go when using the 15 watt mode now let's just take a quick look at the also brand new Avatar frontiers of Pandora for which I was trying to use the integrated Benchmark again and it didn't really work on either the r Ali nor the legion go it has just been a stuttery mess even at 720p with the lowest settings and FSR enabled the stuttering really made it unbearable on both devices while the r Ali seemed to hold up a bit better than the legion go but still I think you'd face a lot of areas inside the game that would be pretty unplayable though this game is pretty new so we could at least hope for game and AMD driver updates to fix that in the future now actually playing the game seemed to work a bit better as you can see here the first few minutes actually take place inside a facility and once you're outside in this area it really starts to get these heavy stutterings from time to time which we really don't want in an FPS game so um it's really unplayable and that's a shame since it actually looks beautiful and the average FPS aren't even that bad but anyhow let's just jump to the next game instead which was baldder Gate 3 for which I was setting the vram on both handhelds to 3 GB and I would highly recommend doing so if you'd want to play this game on either of them for this test I was using my walk through the city of balos gate in act 3 which is probably the most demanding part of the game now using the 30 W mode at 720p with low settings and FSR unbalanced I was getting around 40 41 FPS on average on the r Ali with a 1% low of around 28 FPS and just slightly higher 44 FPS on average for the legion go with 1% lows of about 31 FPS now when I was using the 15 W balanced mode instead and I really have to point out that lovo seems to have improved that since the last comparison because even using this one instead resulted in a higher 37 FPS on average for the Le and go over the Allies now 33 FPS on average while the 1% lows have been pretty similar in that case with around 23 to 25 FPS for both of them meaning the game is still playable on both of them even in this highly demanding run through the ACT uh three of the game at 1080P and low settings using the 30 wat mode with FSR on performance the Allies scored around 34 FPS on average with 1% lows of only around 18 and the legion go scored a 12% higher 38 FPS on average with 22 uh or 23 FPS for the 1% lows and using the 15 watt modes at 1080p resulted in only 27 FPS on average for the Ally and only 18 FPS for the 1% lows which is well probably still kind of playable considering it's one of the most demanding areas of the game and you don't need a super fluid gameplay for this title in this scenario the legion go was able to still achieve 30 FPS on average and 20 FPS for the 1% lows and while we're at it I also want to mention that loading these safe Games took around 5 minutes each time on either handheld for whatever reason so you'd have to be the patient kind with this one next up was cyberp Punk 2077 in which I was using the integrated Benchmark at 720p medium settings and FSR unbalanced I saw an average of 71 FPS on the r lii and 73 FPS on the legion go with both having pretty good 1% lows of almost 50 FPS now the game is even playable that way using the 15 watt mode with the same settings resulting in 49 FPS on average on the Ali with 33 FPS for the 1% lows and 48 fps on the legion go with 1% low of 30 FPS so this time around the Ali seemed to have a super tiny Advantage though one FPS is to be considered within the margin of error really now now for 1080p I was also using the medium settings but this time with FSR on performance and the 30 wat mode resulted in an average FPS of 52 for the Ali and 55 FPS for the legion go while the alli's 1% lows have been around 40 FPS and he goes at around 36 FPS and in this configuration but with the 15 W mode I still got somewhat playable 35 FPS on average on the Ali and 34 FPS on average on the legion go go while once again the 1% lows were a bit higher on the orig Ali with 26 over 21 FPS now Forza Horizon 5 really runs remarkably well on both the Asus R Ali and the Lenovo Legion go once more I was using the integrated Benchmark at medium settings at 720p and with the 30 W performance modes I saw an average of 83 FPS on the Ally and 79 FPS on the legion go meaning the Ali really had a small lead in this case um this time around and while we're at it I double and triple checked all these benchmarks leading to over 100 Benchmark runs in total so liking the video really helps others to find it with a YouTube algorithm so thanks up front for that surprisingly the results were identical for both handhelds when I was using the 15 wat balanced mode instead resulting in an average of 66 FPS for both the Ali and the legion go with even identical 1% lows of 30 uh 53 FPS now even at 1080p for the Horizon 5 is one of the few AAA titles that actually run with more than 60 FPS on medium settings on these gaming handhelds 69 FPS on the Ali and 67 FPS on the legion go on average for 1080P and medium settings pretty neat 1% lows have been almost identical once more with 58 for the Ally and 56 for the Le and go meaning it really ran super fluid with no stuttering whatsoever and even using the handels at 15 watt results in playable FPS at 1080p with an average of 51 for the Ally and 49 FPS on the legion go so overall the Ali is a bit better with Forza Horizon 5 but they're both handling it really well and I also fired up Starfield while we are once more beginning with the 720P and 30 W Benchmark at low settings with FSR enabled for that I was taking a walk in the first big city you'll get to at the beginning of the game on the r Ali that resulted in an average of 42 FPS and a 1% low of 30 FPS while on the legion go I saw a slightly higher 46 FPS on average and a 1% low of 32 FPS using the 15 watt mode in that scenario the performance was perfectly equal on both handhelds with 30 1 FPS on average and a 1% low of 21 FPS on both handhelds alike probably a good idea to cap the FPS at 30 in that case either way now at 1080p low settings and FSR activated using the 30 W mode the game was still playable with 37 FPS on average for the Ally and a 1% low of 25 FPS while the legion go once more scored a slightly higher 40 FPS on average with a 1% low of 20 28 FPS still doable for most people I guess now here using the 15 wat balanced mode resulted in only 28 FPS on average for the Ally and 29 FPS for the legion go which is just on the brink of being playable for most people out there all right what's today's conclusion well testing these six games isn't super representative of all the available games out there I'm aware of that but there are just too many games games to test especially if um I want to do that for different resolutions and different wattage modes as people just use these handhelds in too many different ways to cover all of that I still think that the legion go could have a tiny performance Advantage once the bias versions are both equally developed just due to the faster Ram which in most use cases would of course be neglected by the higher resolution it has to render and then the Ali does of course support VR which can make up for lower FPS in my opinion and yes I know that the faster R can sometimes even lead to lower FPS especially on the lower power modes for the legion go but that's a story for another video If this comparison was helpful please make sure to like this video so others can find it as well thank you also subscribe for more Benchmark videos laptop reviews and handheld related stuff in the future if you haven't yet checked out my video in which I'm reviewing the XR glasses in combination with the legion go and the Ali make sure to watch that next because that was a real game changer for me I will link to it in the end card and the description of this video all right and that's all for today thanks for watching see you next time bye-bye and [Music] cheers [Music] oh

Channel: Hubwood

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Length: 14min 2sec (842 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 16 2023