Leaked: Asus ROG Ally 2 with AMD Z2 Extreme CPU and 64GB RAM — Black Model Includes Dedicated Xbox Button

Oh man, so Microsoft’s got this thing going on called Project Kennan, right? Sounds like they’re finally bringing it to life through, like, this ROG Ally 2? Or whatever? Anyway, I came across reports from 91mobiles and some guy named Huang514613 on X—that’s the scoop.

So here’s what I got: Asus is cooking up two versions of the ROG Ally 2. One’s black with a big ol’ Xbox button, and the other’s white with more, uh, “chill” specs for regular folks. Project Kennan’s been this open secret, but we totally didn’t have the nitty-gritty until this leak. They found model numbers, which led them to some US FCC thing. Fascinating, huh? Or maybe not. Depends.

Anyway—wait—right, differences! It’s like the original ROG Ally, I guess. You get either AMD’s Z1 with 4 CUs or the Z1 Extreme with 12, and there’s a $100 jump in price. Side note: They’re sticking to x86 to, like, keep everything friendly with existing games and stuff. Makes sense, I think?

That big Xbox Button on the black model—yep, totes screams Project Kennan. But it’s probably Windows 11, not some snazzy new OS. Maybe the button opens the Game Bar like on PCs. I dunno, we’ll see. Have they put in more tweaks? Possibly? We gotta wait for Microsoft’s official yap about it.

Okay, engine room time! We’re talking AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme with eight cores—three Zen 5 and five Zen 5c—and 16 threads. It’s kind of like the Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360 but beefed up with a 16 Compute Unit iGPU or something. The techie stuff here, is almost like a mouthful but I hear it has a 15W-35W TDP and loads of memory. Oh, and a sweet 7-inch touch LCD with 120 Hz. Fancy, right?

Now, the white one… what’s up with that? Well, it’s got some mysterious new AMD chip. Spec-wise: 16GB of RAM, same 7-inch display, and 65W charging. The APU in it? Some codename Aerith Plus—sounds epic! It’s maybe a refresh of the Steam Deck’s innards. I’m not entirely sure. Tangents, am I right?

Leaks say this sleeker APU’s part of AMD’s Z2 series—four cores with a 6W-20W power range. Details are sketchy—what’s in it, seriously? Guess AMD and Asus might spill the beans at Computex.

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