The Steam Deck struggled with Spider-Man 2, while the ROG Ally performed decently well

TechPowerUp tested two extremely popular gaming handhelds with Marvel's Spider-Man 2: Valve Steam Deck, and Asus ROG Ally - both based on AMD APUs.

The Steam Deck is powered by the AMD Van Gogh APU with a Zen 2 CPU and RDNA 2 GPU,

Whereas the Asus ROG Ally is powered by the substantially more potent Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU with an 8-core CPU and 12-CU iGPU allowing for a whopping 8.6 TFLOPS of raw performance.

Handheld potential: Steam Deck stumbles, ROG Ally survives

Rog Ally

At 720p with "very low" settings, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme-powered ROG Ally managed a playable 51.3 FPS at 25 watts with a minimum FPS of 17.8.

At 15 watts, the number dropped to 38.9 FPS, with a minimum of 13.1.

Steam deck

The Steam Deck, however, showed its age and barely managed 26 FPS at the same settings, with a minimum of 12.8 FPS.

At the slightly more visually appealing "low" preset, the ROG Ally clocked a respectable 46.1 FPS, whereas the Steam Deck struggled with 21.1 FPS

Interestingly, the game experienced crashes on the Windows-based ROG Ally, unlike the Steam Deck, which did not experience any such issues.

Frame rates were also more stable on the Steam Deck according to TPU's testing, although still borderline unplayable even with upscaling.

The ROG Ally, unsurprisingly, fared much better, and once it gets the update to the recently unveiled Ryzen Z2 Extreme with four additional CUs, the performance will only get better

Source - Notebookcheck 

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