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Asus ROG Ally receives timely GPU driver update despite rumors of AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme deprecation

Latest from Tom's Hardware·@BenStockton·2 months ago
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Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful An interestingly timed update to the Asus ROG Ally with the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU has just been released. That in itself wouldn't necessarily be big news, but it follows recent reporting that suggested that AMD was deprecating the Z1 Extreme chip, leaving handhelds like the ROG Ally without further GPU updates as a result. There hasn't been a lot of clear confirmation, from either AMD or manufacturers like Asus, about the status of the Z1 Extreme. What we do know, however, is that it had been several months since the ROG Ally received a major SoC update. With reports that other Z1 Extreme handhelds like the Lenovo Legion Go and Go S were also lacking new updates, and seemingly a confirmation from Lenovo's Korean branch that product updates were stopping for those handhelds, consumers with Z1 Extreme-powered handhelds have been left with uncertainty over recent days.…

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