Way back in 2024, I tested gaming on Snapdragon X Elite and it was…fine. The X86 Intel and AMD chips always had the upper hand in terms of game and tool compatibility, and while the GPU in Qualcomm’s Arm silicon was strong, it was always compromised. A mix of lower graphics settings would always be the key to get you somewhat decent frame rates.
But with the recently released Snapdragon Control Panel and new graphics drivers, game performance has seen a huge uplift. So in the shadow of the incoming Snapdragon X2 Elite, I went back to the first gen chip in the Asus Zenbook S15 and compared it with the same silicon in Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, to see just how much better things have got. Spoiler alert: it’s a lot.
