Qualcomm demos Baldur's Gate 3 and Control on Snapdragon X Elite laptops

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This sounds pretty cool but they are going about the marketing in a very weird way. Eg for example the quote about the influencer saying they are seeing Elden Ring playing at 30fps and showing BG3 at 24fps. It's great they can play BG3 but those are very different things and anyone who doesn't know the difference shouldn't be opining on this.

I'd want to have someone credible like digital foundry have a look https://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalFoundry

I would give them a pass because the demo demonstrates that the windows ARM-to-x64 is mature enough for AAA games (assuming they are not cherry picked). The lack of performance is disappointing but their new chip is competing with base apple silicon and Intel/AMD integrated graphics so it's not egregiously bad or anything.

I’ve seen it previous benchmarks that seem aimed at M2, but to me this doesn’t compare favorably against M2 MacBook Air which seems happy to run BG3 at 30fps @ 1440p. but to really compare we need to know the MSRP of these configurations.

I think pricing is really important for these X Elite laptops to be worth it. If the price is north of $800, you might as well get a laptop with dedicated Nvidia GPU that will give you much better performance.

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