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Finally, after more than a decade of effort, Windows on Arm is a viable alternative to traditional x86 processors—and it's especially alluring if you long for longer battery life.
But what about games? There's reason to be skeptical., despite Qualcomm's pre-release claims that games should just work on Snapdragon X Elite. Games are often developed with a highly specific platform target. Even ports that seem simple, like a move from PlayStation 5 to Xbox Series X|S, can take a lot more effort than you might think.
To find out how well Qualcomm's chips fare in PC games, I pitted Microsoft's new Surface Laptop 7 against a Dell Inspiron 14 Plus 2-in-1 with an Intel Core Ultra processor and Intel Arc integrated graphics. The results are shocking.
Qualcomm vs. Intel integrated GPUs
Every Qualcomm Snapdragon X chip comes with an integrated Qualcomm Adreno X1 GPU, though the IGP's performance varies a bit depending on the particular Snapdragon X chip in a device:
Snapdragon X Plus X1P-64-100: 3.8 TFLOPs
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 Apple's online education store has gone down in the United States and Canada, as Apple prepares to launch its annual Back to School promotion for university students.
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