iGPUs of Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake-H Laptop & Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPUs, based on the Arc Alchemist architecture, have been tested.
26.03.2024 - 15:55 / wccftech.com / Hassan Mujtaba
The much-awaited Snapdragon X Elite CPU platform has been demoed running Baldur's Gate 3 at 30 FPS as a demonstration of its gaming GPU performance.
We recently talked about how Qualcomm is working to ensure that PC gamers who will be using its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite CPU-powered laptops will get a great gaming experience. They stated that most games will be able to run on the upcoming Windows PCs. The company is providing devs three options for running games on its Arm-based platforms which include (via The Verge):
The main component that will be powering these experiences on the Snapdragon X Elite platform is the Adreno GPU which is rated at up to 4.6 TFLOPs and will feature support for DX12, DX11, Vulkan, OpenCL via the drivers while also retaining legacy support for DX9 and OpenGL 4.6. In official slides presented a while back, Qualcomm showcased a 80% performance uplift versus the Radeon 780M iGPU, based on the RDNA 2 core architecture, at the same power.
Now we have an actual demonstration of a reference Snapdragon X Elite laptop running an actual game. The video captured by Devin Arthur (@Lexcyn) showcases the laptop running Baldur's Gate 3 at 1080p (quality settings are unknown). The laptop manages around 25-30 FPS & while that could mean nothing since we don't know the exact settings or power configurations for this laptop, the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS with its Radeon 780M iGPU produces around 25-40 FPS when set at a TDP of 30W.
So what we can say right now is that in its early stages, the performance of the Adreno GPU on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite CPU still has some ways to go. We are going to see much better performance after launch as the real driver work commences to optimize GPU performance across a range of games and applications. The X Elite and X Plus CPUs are expected to ship by the mid of 2024 with availability in 2H 2024 so expect more information soon.
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