Which Handheld Plays It Better? - ASUS ROG Ally vs. Steam Deck - Lord of the Rings: Gollum

Your host Joe introduces the channel segment called Which Handheld Plays It Better. For its third video the game is Lord of the Rings: Gollum and Joe compares how the game plays on the ROG Handheld and the Steam Deck. Test Parameters: - No AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) used in game or on OS - No Ray Tracing enabled - Handheld not plugged into power - Used w/ over 50% battery - Game time at each TDP limit/setting is at least 1 hour over 2+ game sessions - Numbers arrived at without screen recording software used - No frame cap on both devices (in game nor OS) - Frame rate scope excluded menu screen and includes nanite screen - Proton Driver GE-Proton8-3 used - Steam Deck OS Version 3.4.8 & OS Build 20230508.1 - 8GB VRAM allotted - 9W, 15W, and 25W limits had separate profiles created (30W limit used Turbo profile) - RC71L version 2.5.30.0 & BIOS upgrade utility for RC71L version 1.319.0 (this is titled bios 319) 00:00 - 01:00 Introduction 01:01 - 02:15 Test Results, Test Parameters, and Framerates 02:16 - 02:44 9W APU TDP Limit (Steam Deck and ROG Ally) 02:45 - 03:54 15W APU TDP Limit (Steam Deck and ROG Ally) 03:55 - 04:04 25W and 3W APU TDP Limit (ROG Ally) 04:05 - 05:06 Other Thoughts on Test Results and Game w/ Testing 05:07 - 06:20 Conclusion