With an impressive line up of over 20 launch laptops featuring the new Snapdragon X Elite CPU, including the Dell XPS 13, Qualcomm's bullish attitude to this year's Computex Trade show is also backed up by some impressive benchmarks with it's Windows-based laptops due for release in the next few weeks.
The demos also seem to back up the performance claims, where there was particular interest in gaming and content creation. Starting with the former and there were examples of several popular games running at 108op resolution at well over 30fps, especially as the GPU portion of Snapdragon X Elite supports frame-rate boosting FSR as well.
Snapdragon X Elite also accelerates content creation software such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop as well as DaVinci Resolve, making it particularly attractive to those that edit videos on the go, but don't want the added weight or power drain of a discrete GPU in their laptop.The AI features were just as impressive, with an app called DJ Pro able to separate different sounds in music such as vocals or bass in real time using the Hexagon neural processor.