Snapdragon X Elite Hands On: Gaming, Benchmarks, and Windows on ARM

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[BrianGlaze]

This is definitely exciting. Happy to see mor progress with ARM.

[BradleyLarcher]

Windows on Arm. Looking forward to see where this train takes us

[markfinlay]

My next laptop will be an X Elite machine. I can't wait for the improved battery life.

[chriss]

You can thank the Apple M1 for pushing Qualcomm to get into this space.

[CaptainUltimaFTW]

I'm looking forward to seeing how Linux performs on these systems when they hit the market.

[GroundedTech]

Exciting stuff. I need a Snapdragon X Elite laptop this year.

[sslaia]

Thank you for your "few more questions than answers". I like it that you try to avoid falling victim of the hype and present it as a promise we are excited to wait. To be honest I watch less and less tech review lately because of the overhyping (think of the AI revolution etc.).

[mahmoud]

I hope to see Linux support on mainline kernel

[tecnocosmia]

Best insights and details of the products so far, much appreciated man

[DiaUp]

I really like they talk total system power performance per watt, and they showed gaming. Remember that's running an emulator (presumably) not just a translation layer like the Deck/Linux does

[BarryJohnson]

This is rad loved that snippet of Pactel towards the end as well.

[benjaminwachman]

It looks like Qualcomm will probably be able to deliver a decent experience for Windows ultra thin and light laptops. For a laptop I'd take with me on a trip, all I want is all-day battery life with pretty decent performance. The biggest barrier is just that so few apps are compiled for ARM natively and rely on x86 emulation (which is slow).

For native apps, the perf/W is really good.

It kinda blows me away that in Cinebench they have a Qualcomm laptop where the WHOLE SYSTEM is only pulling 24W handily outperforming an Intel system where the CPU by itself has a 28W TDP. Sure, Meteor Lake doesn't have the best perf/W in the x86 space, but it's not leaps and bounds off.

[JoaquinVacas]

Give me that laptop with almost zero fan noise + +10h of battery life + Linux + at least 32GB of RAM and I'll be happy.

[okamich.]

Did they have just Windows on ARM demos or did they have some laptops running Linux as well?

[LiVeWiRez]

Nice early glimpse. Keep the coverage coming for these ARM Windows laptops. By any chance did you get to see what the storage performance was like and are the ports TB4 or USB4 on these reference models?

[Superfly]

So good to see you walking at the sunny Qualcomm HQ.
You need to be on the frontline of tech. You deserve to be there, we deserve to have you there.

[weiSane]

Yes we are ready for laptops that could last a full day under average usage regardless of whether we are running windows or Linux.

[Johnnyynf]

Is there anywhere we can know if Snapdragon X would support rumoured windows super-resolution for the NPU?
It'll be very if it can offload the super-resolution to NPU and should have better performance for gaming than expected.

[Crustenscharbap]

This red notebook is absolutely beautiful.
24W. Seems that the APU needs about 18-20W and its fast as AMD 30-40W. It seems to be good.

[yasirarafat]

are data structures for computers are also going to change.
are programming Languages cpp, java, python, PHP, etc going to change due to arm?