One of the things I was most interested to see out here at the Computex 2024 techstravaganza were the swathe oflaptops that are soon to launch, mostly because it's been surprisingly bullish about its gaming performance. But the first time I've actually got to test the gaming performance myself yielded something surprising: The X Elite uses AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling to great effect.
But this is the strength of FSR; it's been built to be vendor agnostic, but I don't think it was expecting to be completely instruction set agnostic, either. After all, we are talking about a very different version of Windows here. Snapdragon X Elite chips run on Windows on ARM as they're not the same sort of x86 silicon as Intel and AMD's traditional CPUs.
As is my wont, on clocking the 30-odd fps frame rate I jumped straight into the settings to see what level the game was running on. Now, it was just playing at 1920 x 1080 and set to a global Low level in the game. Which is fine, it's not stellar, but absolutely playable and you could be bounding through Baldur's Gate on this thin-and-light machine for a lot longer than any other mobile device thanks to the integrated Adreno GPU's power-sipping performance.
To be a little kinder to the system I also dropped the FSR level down to Balanced, which resulted in a pretty comfortable 32 fps minimum. Now, in these days of high refresh rate screens and the idea that 60 fps is a miserable gaming experience, that probably sounds like a nightmare. But anyone who's gamed on a Steam Deck will understand mobile gaming compromises and that you can still have a great gaming experience at a lower frame rate.
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