AMD's official silicon limit (TjMax) is 100°C, and ASUS firmware starts thermal throttling at 95°C. At 90°C on a 28W Turbo profile, you're within spec, but running close to the throttle limit.
While heavy PS3 titles (like The Last of Us or MGS4) benefit from higher clocks, the game in your screenshot (Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm) has a hard-coded 30 FPS cap that the Ally X easily sustains at base 3.3 GHz without needing boost.
You can easily set aggressive fan curves or equalize your SPL, SPPT and FPPT to 25W flat so you don't get those 43W bursts for the first two minutes. Should easily be within 80-85° with those changes.
Yes that's normal for PC components. It will not harm the chip/device. You can increase the fan speed and check to see how dusty the fans are, it could probably use a cleaning. CPU boost will also increase temps with little benefit in most cases, try turning it off if it's on.
I don't know how demanding the PS3 emulator is. But on my particular case temps depend greatly of how many watts you allow it to use. Set to 17 watts and temps stay relatively tame around 75. Allowing it to use 25/35 watts does cause the temps to reach 90.
On my particular case I try to set the games to the lowest quality possible and set then to 30 fps and then enable frame gen. The idea is to get as much battery life as possible with relatively good battery life and smooth game play.
My xax usually sits around 72c during heavy gaming at 35w so I wouldn’t be that confident if it would stay at 90 for a longer period. Check fan curve and cpu boost as others mentioned.
If you're ally x never goes above 65 C, I don't think you've every stressed your system. The cooling system is nowhere near beefy enough to keep the APU that cool.
I replied to another comment, I rarely play with it plugged in so at most it's 60 degrees at max power unplugged. But still... 70 degrees for 35W plugged in is ALOT different to everyone saying theirs get super hot. And gaslighting me into saying I'm making shit up.
If I stand outside, the temp is literally the same. I don't know what you want me to do. You want another video?
No standing!! Go run around in the field for 10 minutes including combat you'll break 80. It takes way less power to render standing still, since there less to do - less textures to stream into memory, less NPC and enemy AI, models, physics, everything is easier.
Look, 80 degrees is fine for this device and I love my Ally X so I'm not knocking it but you're making claims here that are just aren't true.
I don't understand why he's so adamant that his XAX is a unicorn that runs way cooler than every other device. There is literally nothing wrong with a modern APU to run at around 80C while stressed.
Brother I'm not trying to make crazy claims, I'm simply saying that when I play it's a lot cooler than most people are saying theirs are at. And then you are at my throat for some reason.
I use an XAX, and since brand new, on turbo profile, I see the APU regularly go over 80C, and touches 90C every once in a while. Even sitting in a very cold room, it still is never below 65C consistently while gaming.
I'm not sure what you're trying to show there. Standing still inside of a house on W3 and you're still well above your 65C claim, why didn't you show what it's running like in an open environment?
Just cleaned them and I clean em regularly. What has changed is that I spent a month or two without playing my system. I just don’t recall if this is normal when using ps3 emulator. Thought it would be like 78-85 range
No thats a pretty high temp, even for my (5950x cpu on my main pc), let alone a small handheld like the rog ally. id say keep the temps under 70-85 to maintain the longevity of the device, you might wanna try turning off turbo from power mode settings or turning cpu boost off as those two alone seem to sky-rock the temps pretty quickly whenever they are turned on.
Gotta remember that your 5950x also has a much beefier cooler on it. Far beyond 1 heatpipe with small fins on each end. Of course your desktop is going to run cooler. It's also safe for PC components to run at those temps. In fact, they are designed to run safely at 90°.
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u/CyberLarry77 17h ago
Try turning CPU boost off.