Snapdragon X Elite Gaming Isn't Great: A Rocky Start For Windows on ARM

Note: Dark Souls 3 and Control are indeed running with Auto SR upscaling, hence the 768p resolution limit (it 'upscales' to 1080p here). Auto SR has no significant impact on performance vs native 768p.

[EastyyBlogspot]

Probably cost microsoft an arm and a leg

[turtis]

Thank you for not hyping a new competitor just because it's new. Most media outlets are massively overselling the potential of ARM with clickbait headlines.

[faustianblur]

Alex's future pet hate. "Exe recompilation stutter".

[dan_loup]

I'm not that surprised that microsoft is not very good at DirectX anymore, given you can emulate directX12 faster than running it natively with dxvk

[javierrebolledabulask]

now my RTX 3050 laptop seems not that bad LOL

[potatoes]

saw this coming. with so few actual benchmarks in the marketing materials and "reviews", something felt off. We shall see how (if) the situation improves

[rangokfunkazuul]

I mean when they tols us it was leagues better than the M3 chip, I was like "let's see it running on Windows first"

[flamesword]

Qualcomm should have worked with developers to make games work well and truly showcase the Snapdragon X’s true potential using native Windows ARM applications and optimizing the game. But atleast I think they confirmed Baldurs gate 3 is going to get a native windows arm version in the future.

[MegaKiri]

In couple years they will improve the compatibility, a lot of native ARM software will come out. Then NVIDIA will release an ARM SOC for Windows with RTX iGPU, it's going to be amazing!

[potatoes]

saw this coming, not surprised. people be overhyping ARM for years

[majbt]

Microsoft needs to step up their game in terms of their Windows on ARM department. They need to hire more developers, so they can better optimize the operating system, DirectX API, Vulkan, etc. on ARM based devices.

This laptop hopefully will improve in the coming months.

[KhizarKhan]

the battery life is not much better than amd 8840u and zen5 will probably have better battery life and much better performance

[ampo]

They should had worked in at least one game that took advantage of all the resources available, GPU / CPU and the rest like the way it is now

[jet]

I dont like the cost of these new laptops with the chipset. But high costs always accompany new tech so not suprising. Its pretty neat to see a revitalization of arm based laptops though. Apart from apples custom stuff. Hopefully it keeps being supported and native arm apps start to make headway.

[thespectator]

I'm not a Steve Jobs fan, and can't afford Apple products yet, but I agree with his quote: "Microsoft has no taste."

[BenGoodsonModular]

The God of war frame time spikes are hilarious.

[alphacompton]

I was expecting most titles to run like God of War on the new Arm chips but I wasn't expecting so many titles to simply not run and not even give a message as to why. This isn't their first time trying arm, I think they're doing better but it's pretty crazy that they weren't forcing arm dev kits onto other companies so they could tweak compability.

[APEXGuerilla]

Guess I'll start saving for a Strix laptop, what a death knell this is.

[cubefox]

People keep talking about Microsoft, but these games are likely GPU limited, which has nothing to do with Microsoft's Prism CPU emulation. Qualcomm has to address the problems with the GPU driver, not Microsoft. Adreno is a Qualcomm CPU.

[TealTheDropster]

I think you're looking at it the wrong way, you consciously chose to touch the cutting edge of technology and got cut. The fact that non-x86 laptops were greenlit, manufactured and sold is a big win for the future of computing. the move to Arm is conceptually not focused on Gaming, that'll happen eventually but not gen 1