Nuvia: don’t hold your breath

[Jimmyjames]

Oh Asus.

Diablo IV doesn’t run on macOS. Is this a Crossover comparison??

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[dada_dave]

Oh Asus.
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Diablo IV doesn’t run on macOS. Is this a Crossover comparison??

ASUS Zenbook A16 (UX3607) | Copilot+ PCs | ASUS UK

ASUS Zenbook A16: Experience ultra-light 16" laptop with Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, 3K OLED display, and over 21hr battery life for multitasking on the go.

www.asus.com

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On all of them (I see this in you first picture too but even for Diablo IV which looks okay in your picture) for me the bars are all screwed up - both going past the screen.

I *think* Diablo is also running on Prism for WoA? (not as much translation as for Xover) If memory serves when Geekerwan tested the first generation, the Apple chips were generally faster for gaming under emulation than the Qualcomm chips even though the Mac chips had more to emulate, so I guess this is an upgrade? Of course this is the M5.

 

[Yoused]

for me the bars are all screwed up

If you go to the link, the image shows the X2 Elite as 26% faster than the M5, based primarily on multi-core scores. Of course, the X2 accomplishes this with a mere 18 cores, compared to the M5's massive 10 core complement (it is the base M5, with genuine E-cores).

 

[dada_dave]

If you go to the link, the image shows the X2 Elite as 26% faster than the M5, based primarily on multi-core scores. Of course, the X2 accomplishes this with a mere 18 cores, compared to the M5's massive 10 core complement (it is the base M5, with genuine E-cores).

Aye same with the Diablo comparison too, the X2 Elite's GPU is I believe is 1.6x the size of the M5's (and I think faster clocks too). I guess for the consumer, it'll depend on price which I don't think is known yet (also this is a 16" device which the base M5 doesn't even go into a competing form factor - although it is a smaller, lighter 16" than Apple's).

But ... for me, based on all that only winning by 30% on a game that has to go through one (WoA) vs two (Mac) translation layers* isn't that impressive.

and you could in theory count it as 4 translation layers for the Mac: x86 -> Arm, 4k -> 16k page tables, Windows -> macOS, DirectX -> Metal, I was combining the first two and last two together

Also when I go to the link, none of the bars render correctly and I don't get any of the ratios, they all look like @Jimmyjames' first picture.