Back in October 2023, Qualcomm unveiled the highly anticipated Snapdragon X Elite. This chipset is claimed to be faster than the Apple M2 Max chipset. Now, we have a better idea of its gaming performance as the chip was recently seen running Baldur’s Date 3.

Snapdragon X Elite’s Adreno GPU can run Baldur’s Gate 3

Snapdragon X Elite

To recall, Qualcomm promised that the Snapdragon X Elite won’t require porting of x86-based games since they will run smoothly on the ARM chipset. The new processor will be featured on the next gen laptops and the official announcement confirms that it will support most games that are available on Windows PCs. Developers that want to run their games on the ARM processor can either run natively on ARM64, run hybrid on ARM64EC, or run x64 based emulation.

It is worth noting that only the first two options guarantee a better performance overall. For those unaware, the Snapdragon X Elite’s Adreno GPU is capable of outputting 4.6TFLOPs and supports DX12, DX11, Vulkan, OpenGL, as well as legacy support for DX9 and OpenGL 4.6. As per official notes, the chipset was seen offering an 80 percent performance uplift against the AMD Radeon 780M iGPU.

In a video shared by Devin Arthur, we can see the chipset in action running Baldur’s Gate 3. On 1080p resolution, the game was capable of painting a framerate of around 30 frames per second. Unfortunately, the finer graphics settings are unknown. But this does paint a positive picture for gaming on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon powered laptops. The company isn’t claiming a powerhouse in gaming with this chip, but we can expect to see improvements in the performance over time with optimizations and driver updates.

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