Until Xbox shares more details on its own homegrown handheld , the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X and its prettier, costlier sibling, the Xbox Ally X20, are the best bang for buck we got for playing PC games on the go. Thankfully, there’s a new AMD upscaling update that makes these handhelds so much better, and it may be enough to help you bide your time until the Xbox makes its own .

Let’s say you dropped a grand or more on the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X at launch last year, and you’re starting to find some of the latest big-name launches still struggle to manage a playable experience. AMD’s new update to these handhelds bring the more recent FSR 4.1 upscaling model to these recent gaming devices. That model has been exclusive to its recent Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs, with AMD claiming it wasn’t designed for the older RDNA 3.5 GPU microarchitecture installed in the handheld’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme chips. The fact that AMD has changed its tune is significant for players.…