Snapdragon X Elite Gaming! Is This Next-Gen ARM CPU Fast Enough, Hands-On Testing

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In this video we see how well the all new Snapdragon X Elite Arm CPU can handle gaming on windows! Qualcomm has introduced the new generation of ARM based laptops and the big question is CAN IT GAME? Let’s find out. We test out 10 games to see what the thing can do.

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00:00 Introduction
00:57 Video Sponsor Ad Spot
02:14 Overview
05:12 Gaming on the Snapdragon X Elite
05:40 GTA5 Snapdragon X Elite
06:27 Genshin Impact Snapdragon X Elite
07:17 Spiderman Snapdragon X Elite
07:54 Fallout 4 Snapdragon X Elite
08:29 Hades 2 Snapdragon X Elite
08:50 Borderlands 3 Snapdragon X Elite
09:26 Overwatch 2 Snapdragon X Elite
10:03 Warframe Snapdragon X Elite
11:14 Cyberpunk 2077 Snapdragon X Elite
11:54 Final Thoughts

[invi]

In the coming future, this will be getting better and faster and used in handheld devices without the annoying fan noise.

[keloh]

I am a bit disappointed on the performance because of all of the hype but I would say seeing more competition is great for gamer. IGPU is the future.

[ShellymanStudios]

Here's my take for the Snapdragon X Elite laptops. It's a good proper introduction of ARM into Windows ecosystem. But, the price for these laptops are eyebrows raising.

[Randoable]

I am interested to see better drivers and optimizations.

[RobertDunn]

Great video. Keep in mind that only the CPU instructions need to be emulated. When it comes to the GPU, it is using the same API calls to DirectX11/DirectX12 that x86/x64 games already do and that gets translated into the GPU's specific native code anyway.

[SkepticalCaveman]

A handheld with the Snapdragon X Elite would be great.

[IntriguingTech]

Hopefully they can improve the gaming performance with some driver updates.

[irata]

I'm writing this post on this very laptop. It forced me to restart the setup once (because it refused to recognize mouse clicks on the permissions section near the end) but has worked fine after that. I was happy to find that there are native ARM versions of the major web browsers (though you might have to look around their respective download pages to find them), and even some games (World of Warcraft, not sure of BG3, though there is an ARM version for Mac.) And the screen is beautiful.

[rezqiano]

Definitely need to see emulators performance in this one

[czbrat]

The prices for these are terrible for how much stuff just doesn't work or when it does work it works poorly. Idk what Qualcomm and Microsoft are smoking.

[wildzeke]

If only this laptop would take a screenshot every 5 seconds so I can relive my gaming glory months from now.

[eksquirrel]

Would love to see some Linux benchmarks with translation layers for comparison.

[Johnnyynf]

I wish ETA would came back couple months later to test out Snapdragon X product and see if the driver update they have promised do actually improve the performance of the device down the line

[vncube]

I'm not disappointed at the overall gaming experience of X Elite. That's like being disappointed at that of a Macbook. The processor was never going to pleasantly surprise us.

I'm disappointed that this is probably not the most advanced Adreno GPU ever made. Ray tracing is still trivial for these iGPUs (and most graphics cards LOL) but its absence along with the lack of DX12 Ultimate support suggests other features are missing compared to available flagship smartphones. Plus the ARMv8.7a CPU cores were nerfed by the legal drama with ARM.

[vonweiss]

Can't say I'm disappointed with performance. It's a laptop running a new processor with new drivers and translation software that "isn't there" yet.

Looking forward to the arm future on windows based laptops.

[niezzayt]

Here's the hot take 12:38
"We're emulating x86 Application on an ARM Chip"

Here's list of Instructions Sets that Computer Video Games in the past 20 years is ACTUALLY using
SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2 AVX AVX2 AVX512 . Windows, Linux, MacOS doesn't matter, those are what games actually use under the hood.
Reminder: Those instructions set I mentioned is NOT TIED with x86 architecture. Because ARM and RISC-V also have those instructions set in their SoC. How do you think mobile games like Genshin running on Android? That's right, ARM SSE4.2 Vulkan

So le'ts get this VERY Clear.
1. Why do they (Qualcomm) even bother to include Those specific instructions set in their Spec-sheet of this particular chip (SoC)?
2. If those Instructions sets exist within the Snapdragon X Elite chip, why do they need "Emulating" ?

it's not like the games actually checking for "Chip's architecture" No, when you click on a game to run, the very first thing it checks is "is the necessary instructions set exist?"
This is the reason why modern games simply refusing to run on Intel Core2Quad CPU simply because the CPU is lacking newer instructions set, even if you have Windows 10 installed.

So if Snapdragon X Elite "really" need emulation to run any kind of Native Windows Games, then it is not even Utilizing those instructions set I wrote above. Perhaps the only instructions set being used in this video is AVX2 or AVX512 because that's what Translation layer utilize at 02:06
But that totally defeat the point of "why Qualcomm even bothered including all those instructions set in their spec sheet"

[curbsidetech]

Im impressed i was expecting more issues running apps in an emulator.

[Michplay]

At least we got strix halo to look foreword to. Btw what is the performance with native ARM applications?

[wilson]

Looking forward to the second generation released in October, hoping to greatly enhance the GPU

[Nxlow]

Just impressive to see those x86 gamea running on that arm chip.... They make a good translation work this time