Tag: Snapdragon

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops suffer compatibility issues with many games — even Intel’s integrated Arc Graphics is up to 3x faster

After months of accumulated hype, Windows on Arm laptops boasting the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processors have landed. Qualcomm promised “flawless” compatibility with Windows games, but while it’s some games do indeed run well on the hardware, the performance gaps between Snapdragon X Elite and competing AMD/Intel iGPUs are oftentimes staggering. And that’s only when […]

Qualcomm touts Intel-beating gaming performance for its Snapdragon X Arm chip, promises gaming app plus monthly GPU driver updates

With the first examples of laptops powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X chip landing with actual buying customers, Qualcomm has released some more juicy details around gaming performance and features. According to Qualcomm, its new Arm chip trades blows with Intel’s Meteor Lake laptop CPUs, sometimes beating them handily, in a range of games. The […]

The Snapdragon X Elite gets beat by an old iPhone in early testing

Benchmarks for the upcoming Snapdragon X Elite chip are already making the rounds, and they’re disappointing. One user on Reddit, u/caponica23, received the Samsung Galaxy Book Edge 14 early and published an extensive post with some initial findings. And the performance of the Snapdragon X Elite chip inside the PC is much lower than expected. […]

Qualcomm CEO says Arm taking 50% of the Windows PC market in five years is realistic — some OEMs expect Snapdragon chips to be 60% of their sales within three years

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon held a question-and-answer session with the press here at Computex 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan, as the company drives home its go-to-market message around its Snapdragon X Elite processors and celebrates its ecosystem of partners. I asked Amon what he thinks about Arm CEO Rene Haas’s recent statement that he expects Arm […]

Next-gen Arm Snapdragon X chips for PCs to arrive in 2025 — major Dell leak exposes Qualcomm’s roadmap with ‘V2’ and ‘V3’ models

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X mobile processors are already poised for sequels, with the yet unreleased CPUs already slated for 2nd and 3rd generation releases for notebook PCs in mid-2025 and late 2027. A major Dell leak acquired by VideoCardz contains an XPS roadmap, which also contains auspicious dates for Snapdragon X’s future. The leaked Dell executive […]