GAMING on a Snapdragon X Elite Laptop! (15+ Games Tested) 

Hey Chaps! Are you thinking about getting a Snapdragon laptop?? Also forgot to mention Xbox app won't run games locally (cloud streaming only)

If you buy a snapdragon laptop at this time, you’re an early adopter, and you will face issues in games. I guess game developers got taken by surprise here, and the awareness needs to grow that there are now 3 cpu’s on which games need to be tested.

Can't believe you tested Minecraft legends and not real Minecraft Java 😭

Who would have thought that Qualcomm would design a laptop chip

For me I'll wait for the second generation of the x elite and for the ecosystem to mature. It's a big problem when certain programs essential for your work crush or not run at all. For me getting a PC with an intel chip whilst I wait for arm to mature is a wiser decision. I think I will daily drive an Arm windows PC a year from now since this looks promising.

3:31 This isn't DOTA

Considering it's not a gaming laptop until it runs well, Qualcomm said it already has 1200 optimized games. It is the first generation, I am sure that in the future we will have many related news.

The test we were all waiting for, yet somehow most youtubers skipped

I recently bought the Samsung one with the faster X Elite CPU and what works is great but some stuff just doesn't run at the moment. It is no gaming laptop but with support and a generational leap in GPU I think that it has potential to be the go-to thin and light of gaming as the performance/watt ratio is good. ARM feels like the future IMO, hence why I early adopted, even though things are not 100% ATM.

It does seem to me that reviewers were much kinder to Apple regarding the lack of native apps and lack of gaming chops when they launched the M1.

They can tweak the translation layer all they want, but ARM has a very low ceiling for x86, especially with GPU operations. Their only way is ironically with more power.

This chip is really gonna shine with emulation. Hopefully ryujinx gets a native WoA version

Great video, thanks for putting this together. One quick note on SOTTR (around 2:41) ... the game actually does use DX12 (or DX11) despite it saying "No display adapter installed". The reason it says "No display adapter installed" is not because DX12 or Vulkan crashed the game, its because the game searches for an integrated GPU along the PCI bus and the Adreno GPU is enumerated using ACPI, not PCI. Overall I do recommend one of these Snapdragon laptops, they are thin and light with great all-day battery life and don't get too hot or too noisy.

"80% better GPU performance" my a@@ Knew this was a hype train months ago

Naming is stupid. Call them all Elite but then having different skus of elite will make this confusing to the laymen. They should have just done a plus pro and Elite naming scheme.

I'm glad that Windows is finally on the right path with ARM chipsets. I'm excited for the compact laptops for web browsing and media usage as I hate tablets and not a big fan of Macs.

Same rules for that as for Intel Arc graphics. Dont buy expensive Beta test products unless you really got the money to spare. But if this is a major investment for you in terms of gaming then just dont. These things arent cheap after all.

In my mind this is so crazy, I mean ARM is a complete different Architecture and right out of the Box so much works. Even that you can plug in you USB Dongle for your Mouse and even have to think about it, is incredible because it is not a matter of course.

I'm more interested in the product than I'm interested in buying it. Way too early.

This is why so many people game on consoles or mobile devices. You can have a mobile device from a few years ago and still play the latest games. The Nintendo Switch was released in 2017, and they're still making new games for it! Meanwhile for PC AAA gaming, you can build a monster desktop with high end dedicated graphics and still be unable to max out games in a few years. That is annoying and average people don't want to deal with it.

Oof it's so cheap and plasticy looking... yoga slim 7x is so much cuter

it will take about 4-6 months to see these performances level to expectations, even in benchmarks, I have faith snapdragon will try to impress laptop manufactures to trust in their chips over the months with updates. Early adoption risk here as expected but it will pick up.

that wasn't DOTA 2 game!!?!??!?!

4:50, the steam overaly is much smaller on the snapdragon x elite than the intel in this clip. This is clear indication that the resolution was higher on the snapdragon.

I would rather wait for Lunar Lake at this point. But props to Snapdragon, first entry on Laptop market isn't bad and hope it gets better in next generations.

First time I've ever been first to watch a video from ur channel

I’m testing a Surface Pro with the Elite processor. Ecosystem/compatibility is a major issue. Many popular x86 apps refuse to install or launch. Also, most drivers are not arm compatible yet. So, unable to use a printer or an external audio interface.

What? That game you have shown is not Dota 2 at all..

How is the fan noise with snapdragon vs intel while gaming? I know Intel is loud…

Did you play around with the ARM Compatibility settings under Properties on the shortcut? Other reviewers who said this and that app doesn't work doesn't seem to know Windows has this which can fix ARM compatibility issues.

It might be more beneficial if they focused on updating the chip to support a wider range of games, rather than updating each game individually. It's important to remember that it's still a CPU, and we're not quite at that level yet.

Are you sure that League of Legends ran pretty well? As far as I know it won't even boot. If these can run both Cubase with plugins and League I'd be all set, but the uncertainty is killing me.

waiting for steam os gaming at this chips

Whenever you make a long term review of any of these snapdragon powered laptops, please mention battery life as well. Snapdragon guys make huge claims in battery efficiency.

Oh it is so great if "being optimized", so we may give it a chance when "optimized" is the default in the future. It sounds like Intel Arc driver problem, which is faster than 780m on paper but run much slower when playing real games.

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Performance on battery and not battery totally depends on your settings though.

I already have my surface pro 11 . Awesome device.. It has more than enough power. Its on the developers to optimize their apps and games. As far as workflow it is dang near flawless. Great review although I'm not one who watches reviews because some are bias and some are influencers. I would've miss out on some good products listening to some of these guys 😂.

3:31 I don't think that's Dota 1 or 2 or Dota Underlords

This is 1st gen after all, give it a few more iterations and the Snapdragon may be a good alternative in the future. It wasn't all smooth sailing for Apples M1 chip either.

I like this, it means that Windows gaming is what linux/GNU gaming was years ago, and currently with new desktop managers (KDE, Gnome) the linux/GNU experience is better than both windows and macOS! (No like seriously), I want these laptops just so that I can run linux on them and get better battery life than macbooks.

Here's the problem for windows on Arm games, or any professional software right now: Microsoft still haven't fully committed to switching completely to Arm, at least not openly, and when you still have x86 platforms all over the place for consumer to choose from, developers still aren't going to prioritize porting their software to windows on Arm, even though Microsoft is trying their best to collaborate with devs to make it happen, and this isn't just for the CPU, it also applies to the Adreno GPU of the X Elite, and I don't think Qualcomm has enough resources as Nvidia, AMD, or even Intel to make the driver work for even most of the game on steam, if Intel already have a hard time with it, don't expect Qualcomm to have an easy time making it work. Unlike Qualcomm and Microsoft, Apple have made their commitment to switching to Arm clear from the get go, and unlike the X Elite, which only really beat the competition in multicore and NPU performance while losing in graphics, power efficiency, and single core performance, the M1 completely obliterated anything it it's weight class in every metric at launch: efficiency, single core and multicore performance, graphics performance, and video encoding/decoding, in fact it is so powerful that even under rosetta 2 it still managed to beat the previous intel macs in a lot of applications. If Qualcomm released the X Elite right after the M2, which is the competition they are comparing in there performance comparisons initially, this would have been a huge success, but they didn't, instead they waited until Apple have released the M4 to finally start shipping. I really only see windows on Arm happening when Nvidia start making Arm SOCs for windows with unified memory, with their superior graphics architecture that already have perfect driver support on windows, this could be the catalyst for real professional applications and AAA games being ported to windows on arm, due to their dominance in those applications; a lot of computational tasks have transitioned to running on the GPU over the years that massively speed up those tasks, so having a powerful GPU in you computer has become way more important now, and consider that the X Elite is so weak in graphics that even the M2 can beat it, I don't see this as an M1 moment for Qualcomm and Microsoft at all, at best they have only just caught up, but not beaten Apple, and Microsoft really should work with Nvidia to develop a true professional class SOC, and commit to fully transitioning to Arm which is going to be way harder for Microsoft than Apple.

I've bought a Lenovo Yoga with Snapdragon and tried a little bit of game testing just for the sake of curiosity. Disabling Windows Super Resolution or whatever It's the english name (in Italy is SUPER RISOLUZIONE AUTOMATICA) enables the option of select the proper resolution on the options of the games I've tried (the few ones working obv).

It will be good to wait for the 2nd Gen version before Snapdragon

Games might not be a strong point for these, not yet anyway, but the cool running and consistent performance on battery makes them great productivity machines. Provided your apps run.

So what if you install android on this and then play warzone mobile?

Can we get a comparison with amd cpu laptop?

I got the laptop for productivity and not for gaming. I'm happy with the laptop for what I do with it.

I still consider Ryzen 7 8845HS as best CPU with iGPU that can be used daily for casual gaming and work.

how does blue stacks work on the snapdragon processor? are you able to do a video of that?

Hey m8 I would love to hear news on OLED laptops that can game, and the possibility of screen replacement that doesn't cost a fortune! GG on your new video!

Looks goo but it seems that there is still some work to be done. Thanks for the video

As i expected. Overhyped marketing. I'll wait till next generation

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Man use this chip on handheld with the game already support arm, maybe it can last longer than the current windows handheld

The problem is support for higher resolution. But I think an update is coming.

if games start working smoothly on ARM chips we will see a lot of long life battery handheld devices in the future.

Just curious how's the cooling systems when gaming?

Wait, you got league of legends to start? How?????? It doesn’t start in my Samsung, and it’s listed as incompatible

I see a future where arm chips are the standard, x86 needs to rest already

I want one cause I want these to get better and for that to happen people need to buy and use it just wish it wasn't as expense but at least there cheaper then apple with more ram

0:00 I feel like this laptop is best known as the Snapdragon laptop that opens 180° for some reason.

As long as Recall is in the software, there is no way I'll be getting one of these. Besides the whole Recall spyware fiasco, why would I pony up that kind of money for hardware that can't do the same tasks as my current 'outdated' hardware. Pay to be a beta tester, no thanks.

Lets just wait 6 months of updaters it probobly goona run much stuff after...

How about League of Legends? I'm playing ARAM/TFT casually in between my work.

I want to see Linux gaming because the compatibility layers seem to be better optimized and Linux has better Arm support in general...

You can choose an x86 and play most games slowly (on Intel), or a Mac and play almost no games (because so few are ported there), or somewhere in between and play on Snapdragon. But most importantly, this laptop WILL NEVER BURN YOUR THIGHS! Or you can pick AMD and you'll enjoy both gaming and good battery life. EOT.

Is the qualcoom snapdragon x elite processor suitable for programming and cybersecurity? I'm a Cyber security student, does it benefit me to the university stage?

I just received my latitude 7455 and loving it so far! I am also testing a bunch of games, Resident Evil Village runs surprisingly well via steam Big Picture.

What about games like RDR, Witcher, GTA??

With the new Intel Core Ultra II chip they crush Snapdragon and AMD on gaming performance with amazing battery life, so I would just not buy anything with ARM right now if I was considering gaming.

I hope they put these SoC on the next Samsung Tab Ultra and challenge the iPad Pro. :D Let the "hyper" tablet games begin? :D

Come on people, be optimistic, it will get better in the future. Don't lose your hopes only because of this first generation. Wait for the second generation chipset to come, it will get way better, A s said by the tech chap himself. But that's just my opinion.

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Most of the games aren't optimized with ARM chip😔

You can already play more games than a Mac. 😂

Can you test if SketchUp Pro works on the Snapdragon Processor?

Is this the first snapdragon laptop that they've built?

the problem will always be windows software whether arm or x86. windows needs a complete overall

The tomb raider diss-

I mean, for me all I need is minecraft and geometry dash really MC is obviously gonna work perfectly cause Microsoft is ALL for the snapdragon X elite but geometry dash idk, I'd have to ask robtop to make ARM support (basically port the Mac version to windows on ARM💀)

I'll wait until there's a Snapdragon laptop with RTX gpu in it

should have tested cyberpunk cuz too much data available on this game in terms of benchmarking on the itnternet, other than this amazing video. Thanks.

need to see the perfomance of luna lake

I think the driver problem is the larger problem for performance here, instead of emulation. I tried an ARM port of doom 3 (an online, fan made one, so take everything I say with the appropriate grains of salt), and I didn't actually see much difference in the overall framerate--both were stuck at between 40 and 50 fps. ... the x86 version had similar lighting issues to Shadow of the Tomb Raider, but still. Similar performance.

so the hardware is quite good but the software is not smooth enough for game

Where is the best place to look out for drivers and game patches for arm?

If you want to play games made for 2010 then buy this brand new high tech advanced machine. If you want to play current modern games then get a x86.

I wonder if you installed Linux, how would it change

A bunch of developer don't change some lines of code to allow the use of EAC on Linux and make it playable. Imagine "opitimizing for arm", good luck with that.

It's simple when ARM is faster at everything than x86 I'll switch. ARM chip with RTX6080M. It might happen by then; who knows?

How long the battery lasts when gaming?

Touch the screen to increase FPS

3:30 That is definitely not DOTA. Why are you not comparing it to AMD and its far stronger iGPU compared to Intel's ARC graphics, especially for gaming?

what about put in dual boot custom AndroidOS ?

Gaming on not gaming laptop? Sounds smart

Of course highlight the area where it is not made for. Have u made a video about gaming in mac?

Hey can you please check if DayZ is working with the Snapdragon X Elite? I need a new laptop and one of the few games I wanna play on PC is DayZ.. I would appreciate it!

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IntelCoreUltra Meteor Lake never loose performance on battery. Not even 3%