For years, we PC gamers have had it easy. No, really. Not quite as easy as console users, perhaps, but we could be reasonably sure that any software we tried to run was written for the processor architecture inside our box. And that's because there was only one: x86, as championed by Intel and AMD. Companies like Cyrix, VIA and even Fujitsu have produced x86 chips too, but when it comes down to home-use gaming PCs in the 21st century, there have only been two horses in this town.
Then Qualcomm came along and ruined everything. Or possibly changed everything, potentially for the better. The ARM-based Snapdragon chips were released in June last year and have sparked a debate over whether x86 is dead, but there's a more pressing question fizzing in the brains of those for whom a controller is a more pressing concern than a spreadsheet: are Snapdragon chips any good for gaming?
