In the middle of this year, laptops based on the Snapdragon X Elite single-chip system will begin to hit the market. According to Qualcomm Technologies, the new SoC will offer performance levels similar to the latest designs from Intel, Apple and AMD. Among other things, the new product will cope with the launch of modern games for Windows, like Baldur's Gate 3.
A short story has appeared on the Internet demonstration laptop performance with Snapdragon X Elite in the latest project from Larian Studios. In x64 emulation mode, the device provided about 30 fps at 1080p resolution. Baldur's Gate 3 graphics quality settings are unfortunately not reported, so it's difficult to compare the Snapdragon X Elite with its direct competitors from Intel and AMD. Regardless, detailed reviews should appear in the coming months.
Let's remember that the Snapdragon X Elite single-chip system offers 12 ARM cores with 64-bit Oryon architecture, a total of 42 MB of cache memory, an Adreno graphics unit with a computing power of 4.6 Tflops, an AI Engine module to accelerate AI operations and an LPDDR5X- memory controller. 8533. There is support for USB4, 5G networks, Wi-Fi 7 wireless standard and NVMe drives with PCI-E 4.0 interface.
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