The Snapdragon 888 chip, developed by Qualcomm, combines eight processing cores with a frequency of up to 2.84 GHz, an Adreno 660 graphics accelerator, and a Snapdragon X60 5G modem, providing data transfer rates up to 7.5 Gbps.

The ASUS ROG Phone 5 smartphone has a 6.78-inch display diagonally. A Full HD + panel with 2448 × 1080 pixels, a refresh rate of 144 Hz, and 111 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color space is used. The screen has a support HDR, brightness 800 cd / m ², the contrast 1,000,000: 1. Corning Gorilla Glass Victus is responsible for protection from damage.

The volume of LPDDR5 RAM is 8, 12, or 16 GB. And the top-end ROG Phone 5 Ultimate comes with 18GB of RAM. UFS 3.1 flash storage capacities range from 128GB to 512GB. Responsible for power supply is a powerful rechargeable battery with 6000 mAh with support for 65-watt fast charging.

At the front, there is a 24-megapixel camera with a maximum aperture of f / 2.0. The rear camera combines 64, 13, and 5 million pixel sensors. It is possible to record video materials in 8K format at a speed of 30 frames per second.

The rear panel of the regular and Pro versions features the ASUS ROG logo with customizable RGB lighting. In turn, ROG Phone 5 Ultimate received an additional monochrome OLED display on the back cover, on which notifications or various animations can be displayed.