At the Game Developers Conference, Qualcomm demonstrated how its upcoming Snapdragon Additionally, most Windows games should run without any issues.
In a demo at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Qualcomm gave an overview of the GPU performance of its upcoming laptop chip, the Snapdragon X Elite. The popular game Baldur's Gate 3 has been shown to be available in Full HD (1080p). With about 30 fps (FPS) executable. However, the exact graphics settings remained unknown, which is why performance cannot be rated.
It should run the majority of Windows games
However, the show awakens hope that this will happen At least limited suitability for gaming from the slide. The GPU's performance is estimated to be on par with the Radeon 780M, i.e. the GPU integrated into current Ryzen mobile processors. This introduction comes on the heels of Qualcomm's announcement that The majority of Windows games thanks to x64 emulation It should work even without the optimization of the ARM-based chip — but that doesn't mean it always runs smoothly.
Although ARM SoCs have been dominating smartphones and Macs for several years, they have until now played a secondary role in the Windows sector. The Snapdragon X Elite could be one to retreat It is proving itself as a viable alternative to x86 processors in laptops. Qualcomm has been promising a lot in this regard for months, but x86/64 software emulation and support will need to be seamless for that to happen.
Chrome as a native ARM version
In addition to this news, Google published a few days ago Original ARM version for him Chrome browser. This will provide significantly improved browser performance, especially on laptops equipped with the Snapdragon X Elite processor. The first laptops equipped with the new Qualcomm chip will be announced At the beginning of June Expected at the Computex IT trade show.
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