The new Snapdragon X Elite processors, the vanguard for the AI PC boom, makes great use of the red team’s upscaler.
One of the things I was most interested to see out here at the Computex 2024 techstravaganza were the swathe of Snapdragon X Elite laptops 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 (FSR) upscaling to great effect.
And the other surprising thing is that some AMD folk I spoke to at the show didn’t seem to know that was a thing, either.
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.
At the demo event in downtown Taipei we had the chance to get our hands on a host of different Qualcomm-based laptops, from all the top notebook manufacturers, but it was the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge that piqued my interest because that was the one running Baldur’s Gate 3.
