With efficiency and particularly effectivity that ought to scare Intel, Home windows PCs operating Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon X Elite have sturdy enchantment for content material creators. The present downside is an absence of apps, however Blackmagic Design simply introduced that its widespread (and free) DaVinci Resolve 19 (beta 3) video enhancing and results software program now helps Home windows machines operating the brand new chip.
“DaVinci Resolve 19 beta 3 now supports Qualcomm’s new all in one CPU, NPU and GPU processor for Windows, Snapdragon X Elite,” Blackmagic Design wrote in a press launch. “DaVinci Resolve has been fine tuned to optimize performance of the DaVinci Neural AI Engine, with NPU acceleration giving customers up to 4.7x faster performance of AI tools such as magic mask and 2x faster performance for smart reframe on computers using this new processor.”
All of the DaVinci Resolve 19 instruments discovered on Intel PCs and Macs are on the Qualcomm platform as nicely. These embody the “ColorSlice” coloration correction device, Extremely NR denoising, Intellitrack AI for movement monitoring and stabilization, audio “ducking” and extra. Since lots of these are powered by AI, customers ought to profit from the Snapdragon X Elite’s neural engine (NPU) that beats practically each laptop computer processor on the market.
The Snapdragon X Elite additionally has excellent multi-threaded CPU efficiency, topping many Intel chips and Apple’s M3. The VPU (video processing unit) presents AV1, VP9, HEVC (H.265) and H.264 encoding and decoding (as much as 10-bit), so customers ought to have the ability to work with most native digital camera codecs and encode for YouTube and different platforms shortly.
Graphics efficiency is a little bit of a weak level, although, with efficiency solely on par with Intel’s Core Extremely 7, and nicely beneath most devoted GPUs. In the meantime, the Apple M3 GPU (on a MacBook Air) beats it by a large 31 % margin. Which means DaVinci Resolve results, encoding and extra that depend on the GPU may be sluggish in comparison with Wintel and MacBook M3 machines.
Nonetheless, that is excellent news for content material creators wishing for a light-weight street machine that may preserve as much as Apple’s laptops. DaVinci Resolve 19 public beta 3 for Home windows on Arm with Snapdragon X Elite is now accessible for obtain from the Blackmagic Design website online.
