Qualcomm says it's tested 1,200 x86 Windows games on its new X Elite Arm chip but won't say how well they actually run

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Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.

. In terms of technical details, little new emerged from Qualcomm's Computex keynote, but the company did make even more bullish noises than before about the X Elite's gaming prowess when running Windows.claiming that the company has tested and optimised 1,200 Windows games on X Elite, including many triple-A games."We've been working with Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, Remedy, Ubisoft, EA, Larian Studios and many more...and, of course, Xbox Studios," he said.

Essentially, he was getting at the possibility of much more realistic interactions and conversations with in-game NPCs thanks to LLMs."We're at the beginning of revolution of gaming for AI," he concluded. Nor did he have any data, no quoted frame rates, no direct comparisons of the X Elite's Adreno GPU with any competing integrated GPU in an x86 chip from Intel or AMD.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsIt hit around 30fps at 1080p, which is really very impressive and implies the chip and the whole emulation environment in Windows for Arm has lots of potential.

We'll find out soon enough as the first Snapdragon X Elite laptops are just weeks away. But one thing is for sure. The hardest test for the new chip and for the whole idea of running legacy x86 code in emulation mode on an Arm chip in Windows is going to be gaming. Bring it on.

 

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