While Qualcomm has been bragging about its all-new Snapdragon X2 Elite CPUs being equipped with the "world's fastest NPU for laptops," I've been focused on another key aspect that should make these chips for upcoming Windows PCs a certified win: PC gaming.
Being able to play the latest PC games on ultra-thin Windows laptops is finally taking shape, and slowly, we'll start to see less of a need for full-blown discrete GPUs like Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics cards. I mean, if the best gaming handhelds can play demanding titles with a single chip like the latest AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme, what's stopping laptops?
Now, I've been wanting this to happen in the form of Nvidia's rumored N1X chips, and in the recent Nvidia and Intel partnership for Intel x86 RTX silicon. But with Qualcomm's Arm-based