**First Impressions: Asus Vivo Book S15 with Snapdragon X Elite Chip**

As I sat down to test the new Asus Vivo Book S15 laptop, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and curiosity. The laptop is powered by the latest Snapdragon X Elite chip, which promises to deliver impressive performance and power efficiency. With the introduction of this new chip, I wanted to see firsthand what it has to offer.

I started off by running some benchmarks on Geekbench 6 to gauge the CPU's performance. The results were encouraging, with the Snapdragon X Elite chip scoring high marks in both single-core and multi-core tests. However, it wasn't just the CPU that caught my attention - I also wanted to see how the GPU performed. I ran a few different benchmarking tests using Open CL, including the Snapdragon X Elite 21.1 GPU Benchmark and 3D Mark Night Raid.

The results were impressive, with the Snapdragon X Elite chip beating out even the Intel Ultra 7 155h chip in some instances. The chip's performance was particularly notable in synthetic benchmarks, where it scored high marks in tests like the Radeon 78M and Ryzen 5 5600X. However, I also ran some real-world gaming benchmarks to see how the Snapdragon X Elite chip would hold up.

I started off with a light game, Hades 2, which was running at high settings on 1080p with a constant frame rate of 120 FPS. While the performance wasn't exactly stunning, it was still impressive considering the laptop's portability and power efficiency. I also ran Skyrim, which was surprisingly smooth at low settings and a constant 120 FPS. However, when I moved on to more demanding games like Spider-Man Miles Morales and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the frame rates were not as high.

Despite some limitations in these more demanding games, the Snapdragon X Elite chip still managed to deliver respectable performance. In fact, the game Spider-Man Miles Morales was running at an average of around 48 FPS at 720p low settings with FSR set to Performance. This is a significant improvement over the original game's performance on IGPU.

I also ran some built-in benchmarks to test the laptop's performance in everyday tasks. The Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark showed an average frame rate of 50 FPS at 1080p low settings, while the Cyberpunk 277 benchmark averaged around 33 FPS.

**Emulation and Real-World Performance**

One area where I was particularly interested in seeing the Snapdragon X Elite chip perform was in emulation. I ran the Dolphin Emulator on Windows ARM, which is a compatibility layer that allows x86 games to run on ARM-based hardware. To my surprise, many of the emulators were able to run smoothly at 1440p, with most of the games that are compatible with this emulator performing well.

However, there were some issues with crashing and performance inconsistencies. While I'm excited about the potential for emulation on these new chips, it's clear that we'll need a bit more time and development to get things ironed out. But overall, the results I saw here are promising, and I'm eager to see how these chips will perform in other areas of gaming and computing.

**Conclusion**

Overall, my experience with the Asus Vivo Book S15 laptop powered by the Snapdragon X Elite chip has been very positive. The performance is impressive, especially considering the laptop's power efficiency and portability. While there are some limitations in more demanding games, I'm confident that we'll see significant improvements as these chips mature.

As a general user, I think this laptop is an excellent choice for everyday tasks like browsing, office work, and streaming. The performance is more than sufficient for most users, and the power efficiency makes it ideal for those looking to reduce their carbon footprint. However, if you're in the market for a gaming laptop or need raw processing power, we'll likely need to wait a bit longer for these chips to reach their full potential.

Despite some limitations, I'm excited about the future of thin and light laptops powered by ARM-based processors like the Snapdragon X Elite chip. With continued development and optimization, I believe we'll see significant performance improvements and reduced power consumption in the coming years.

**Links**

For more information on the Asus Vivo Book S15 and the Snapdragon X Elite chip, please visit the following links:

* [Asus Vivo Book S15 official website](link)

* [Snapdragon X Elite official documentation](link)

We'll continue to monitor and update our performance benchmarks for these chips as new information becomes available. Thanks for watching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again now this might look like an unassuming Ultra Book or an unassuming laptop like most of the other ones on the market but this specific model is actually hiding something really special something that I've been waiting on for a while now instead of utilizing an x86 CPU from let's say Intel or AMD this is actually powered by an arm so from Qualcomm this is using the allnew Snapdragon X Elite and I've been doing some testing with it for the past week and half and to tell you the truth I mean just using it like an everyday laptop if I didn't have the sticker on here or access to the task manager I wouldn't know that this was powered by an RM CPU it's actually really quick and besides that this thing gets some absolutely amazing battery life up to 18 hours in this video I've got a lot to go over a lot to test here but before we get started I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by Ur CD Keys I've been using this site for a long time they offer steam Keys up play Ubisoft but the thing I usually pick up over here are Windows 10 Pro OEM keys and right now if you use code ETA you can get 25% off bringing the price down to $17 for that key and keep in mind this will also work with Microsoft Office Products we'll use code ETA as you can see brought it down to that $17 price Mark personally I use PayPal just to have that security so we'll go ahead and check out they're going to email that code to you and now we can use that code to activate Windows 10 Pro I'm going to head over to to my updates and security we're going to go to activation as you can see I've got Windows 10 Pro but it's not activated so I'm going to change product key I'm going to paste it in here choose next choose activate and windows is now activated we're ready to go they'll email your code once your payment is processed and that's basically it if you're interested in picking up cheap Windows 10 keys for your new pc builds I'll leave a link in the description this is the allnew Asus VI book S15 and this just happens to be the OLED model so we've got a 15.6 in beautiful 120 HZ OLED display here and again this is powered by an arm s so kind of the same kind of CPU that you'd find in your phone albeit this can draw much more wattage if you need it to and we've got full-fledged Windows 11 on this thing it's not a water down ARM version this is using Microsoft's new translation layer known as prism and so far this has been working out really well .14 we've also got a 3.5 audio jack micro SD card reader and dual USB 4.0 gen 3 type-c ports over on the right hand side two USB 3.2 gen 1 type a port so we've got those fullsize USBS over here and that's about it when it comes to overall external IO taking a look at the overall specs of this laptop here like I mentioned this is powered by a Snapdragon XLE and you got to keep in mind there are several different versions of this I consider this about their mid-range lower clocks on the CPU and lower clocks on the GPU when opposed to their higher end version but we've got the same amount of cores and threads this is the X Elite x1e 78100 12 cores 12 threads this will boost up to 3.4 GHz and yet can stay there all day long 42 megab of cache 16 GB of LP ddr5x Ram running really fast here at 8,448 MHz a 15.6 in 120 HZ 3K OLED display it's got a 16.9 aspect ratio 100% DCI 3 and up to 600 nits of hdrp brightness a 1 TB m.2 NVM this is a PCI E 4.0 SSD Wi-Fi 7 Bluetooth 5.4 it's got a 70w hour battery and like I mentioned this is running Windows 11 it's actually Windows 11 home it's not a water down ARM version this is full-fledged Windows on this PC using Microsoft's new translation layer known as prism and the total package here is only coming in at 3.1 3 lb so I've been using this laptop for about a week and a half and when it comes to overall performance this thing is really quick again if that Snapdragon sticker wasn't on there I wouldn't know that this was powered by an arm chip everything has just worked now there are a few exceptions when I get over to some gaming we'll talk about that in a second but as for everyday normal use cases on this laptop web browsing email checking document editing even photo editing using Photoshop or this thing is super quick I mean it handles all of that with without an issue and we're not burning that much power right now because I'm on battery now there is a way to get this up to around 45 Watts while you're plugged into the wall and if you want a game on it that's exactly what you want to do but when using this laptop on the go and you're looking to get great battery life out of it it's not a problem to keep it in kind of just balanced mode here 4K video playback works out amazingly on this I'm using the Chrome browser through this 4K 60 HDR video here we only dropped two frames and those kind of came in towards the beginning of the video which is normal even for my high-end gaming PC I have this happen and I'll tell you my favorite laptop displays right now are these Asus oads this does up to 120 HZ 0.2 millisecond response time and you know it's very on par with their nebula series for their higher end Rog line this looks amazing the colors pop super smooth deep blacks again yeah I really do love what they've done here with this olad and of course just like a lot of the other PCS hitting the Market this does have co-pilot we've got the dedicated button right on the keyboard so we can go ahead and just ask this to generate an image for us we'll do a Godzilla kitten a cute Godzilla kitten see what this thing can do and keep in mind when generating images with co-pilot it's not going to use the built-in npu here it's actually going to be hitting up a server it's uh this you this uses this uses dolly for image generation and I do like the uh new animation that they have here kind of gives us that windows logo it's going to generate four images for us and yeah that's definitely a cute Godzilla kitten for sure with each one of these images we can actually select specific parts of the image and it'll give us a suggestion right at the bottom if we want to go ahead and change this to let's say a steampunk kitten just gave me the option here sometimes this works sometimes it doesn't I'm not exactly sure if it's going to be able to swap this over to a steampunk kitten but up front did give us a pretty cute Godzilla kitten I'm going to try one one more here and we'll just do a ninja kitten next thing I wanted to take a look at was the BIOS and in the past I've tested a few of the mini PCS that are powered by arm chips running Windows and most of them don't have a real bios like we have here unfortunately there's no performance settings but we do have access to secure boot we can disable our USB you know all of the basics that a bios kind of needs and maybe in the future we'll see a Snapdragon Elite chip hit the market that was specifically for gaming and from the BIOS we'll be able to you know crank up the fan speed TDP and things like that but for now we do have access to all of the basics I just swapped over to my game capture to make it a bit easier to see and I wanted to talk about these performance profiles since we're using an Asus laptop we do have to access my Asus and for all of the benchmarks that you're going to see I'm going to be in the max performance mode opening this up we can go to our device settings and we've got four modes to choose from full speed mode and this is known as fan mode but it does affect TDP we've also got a performance mode standard mode and a whisper mode whisper mode is actually great for web browsing it'll even do 4K video playback and that's where you're going to get kind of the best battery life out of this thing but for gaming emulation and benchmarks I wanted to see exactly what we could get out of this thing so we're going to be in the max performance mode now I want to move over to some CPU benchmarks and since we're working with an arm chip I figured it'd be fair enough to kind of compare this to the M3 I've got an iMac with that Apple M3 we're also going to take a look at performance against the Intel ultra7 155h first up we've got geekbench 6 and on the Snapdragon X Elite we got a single core of 2398 multi 14,115 remember we are in kind of Max performance mode here up to 45 watts and when it comes to that Apple M3 on my iMac I did install something known as speed fan so can get that fan up to 100% it's not going to Thermal throttle at least in theory single core 382 multi 11992 remember the Snapdragon has 12 cores that M3 has eight and a higher clock up to around 4.2 gahz so that M3 in single core did beat out the Snapdragon but uh yeah we're coming ahead in multi and finally at the very bottom we've got that Intel Ultra 7 155h single core 236 multi 10,267 that has 16 cores and 32 threads keep that in mind I also tested CER bench just the multicore here and on that Snapdragon X Elite we got a total score of 12,347 the Apple M3 coming in at 9,857 and that Intel Ultra 7 155h did beat both of them out with a 13,44 but it wasn't by much and this is multicore again 155h has 16 cores and 32 threads moving over to some GPU performance using geekbench 6 the open CL Benchmark Snapdragon X Elite is kind of falling far behind when it comes to the Apple M3 and it's even fallen behind that Intel Ultra 71 155h that Snapdragon X Elite 21,1 another GPU Benchmark I ran here was 3D Mark night raid and we're just taking a look at it on the Snapdragon X Elite 26491 and just to kind of put this into perspective for you the Radeon 78m and the 7,0 8,000 series ryzen chips scores anywhere from 28,000 up to 31,000 with this Benchmark it's not too far off but these are synthetics and now I want to move over to some real world gaming starting off pretty light here with Hades 2 we are at high settings 1080P and it's running at a constant 120 now unfortunately with these new Snapdragon chips something like after burner and even Hardware info isn't really working to tell us exactly what's going on with the chip I was able to get the FPS counter with rivet tuner work in here but if we give it a little bit of time I'm sure we can get Hardware info working so we can see exactly what's going on with that GPU and CPU next up we've got Skyrim this is OG Skyrim 1080p low settings 120 FPS so far not so bad but these are easier to run games and I do want to mention that Qualcomm and Microsoft aren't touting this as a gaming chip but I do suspect that in the future we're going to see some pretty good performance out of these things when you compare them to lower in x86 CPUs and maybe even Next Generation we'll get a much more powerful GPU but let's take it up a notch Spider-Man Miles Morales 720p low settings with FSR set to Performance this kind of looks like the performance we were seeing out of this game when it launched on igpus getting an average of around 48 fps and in due time I really do think that we'll see much better performance out of these Snapdragon gpus I also tested a couple built-in benchmarks we've got shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p low settings we got an average of 50 FPS and the last game I wanted to test here was cyberpunk 277 1080p low settings with FSR set to Performance FSR does really help out but one thing I'm noticing with these higher end AAA games is even going from 720 up to 1080 our average FPS really doesn't change that much maybe 1 to 2 FPS from 720 to 1080 and with this at 1080 we got an average of 33 FPS I also wanted to take a look at a little bit of emulation and when it comes to the Dolphin Emulator the team over there actually does have a Windows on ARM version that's what we're using here autom modista Vulcan backend 1440p running at a constant 60 there were some other emulators that I really wanted to test here but I got a lot of crashing we have to wait just a bit for the Snapdragon X Elite chips to mature just a little bit but taking a look at GameCube and Wii performance up to 1440p is totally possible with most of the games that are compatible with this emulator First Impressions here for the Snapdragon X Elite chip I really do like the performance we're seeing and I mean it's only been on the market for a few days I know they've been doing a lot behind the scenes with this Microsoft and Qualcomm but what we're seeing right now is really great is this the future of thin and light laptops personally I do think it is we will see a performance uplift on these X Elite chips that we have right now but you know coming down the line with newer chips I really do think that these could replace a lot of the x86 on the market but when it comes to like a full-fledged gaming laptop I think we're definitely a few years off from replacing those x86 chips with arm but for the everyday person using their laptop this is more than enough and I'm pretty pretty impressed by it but that's going to wrap it up for my first look video I really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning a little more about the Asus Vivo book S15 I'll leave some links down below and if there's anything else you want to see running on these Snapdragon X Elite chips let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again now this might look like an unassuming Ultra Book or an unassuming laptop like most of the other ones on the market but this specific model is actually hiding something really special something that I've been waiting on for a while now instead of utilizing an x86 CPU from let's say Intel or AMD this is actually powered by an arm so from Qualcomm this is using the allnew Snapdragon X Elite and I've been doing some testing with it for the past week and half and to tell you the truth I mean just using it like an everyday laptop if I didn't have the sticker on here or access to the task manager I wouldn't know that this was powered by an RM CPU it's actually really quick and besides that this thing gets some absolutely amazing battery life up to 18 hours in this video I've got a lot to go over a lot to test here but before we get started I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by Ur CD Keys I've been using this site for a long time they offer steam Keys up play Ubisoft but the thing I usually pick up over here are Windows 10 Pro OEM keys and right now if you use code ETA you can get 25% off bringing the price down to $17 for that key and keep in mind this will also work with Microsoft Office Products we'll use code ETA as you can see brought it down to that $17 price Mark personally I use PayPal just to have that security so we'll go ahead and check out they're going to email that code to you and now we can use that code to activate Windows 10 Pro I'm going to head over to to my updates and security we're going to go to activation as you can see I've got Windows 10 Pro but it's not activated so I'm going to change product key I'm going to paste it in here choose next choose activate and windows is now activated we're ready to go they'll email your code once your payment is processed and that's basically it if you're interested in picking up cheap Windows 10 keys for your new pc builds I'll leave a link in the description this is the allnew Asus VI book S15 and this just happens to be the OLED model so we've got a 15.6 in beautiful 120 HZ OLED display here and again this is powered by an arm s so kind of the same kind of CPU that you'd find in your phone albeit this can draw much more wattage if you need it to and we've got full-fledged Windows 11 on this thing it's not a water down ARM version this is using Microsoft's new translation layer known as prism and so far this has been working out really well .14 we've also got a 3.5 audio jack micro SD card reader and dual USB 4.0 gen 3 type-c ports over on the right hand side two USB 3.2 gen 1 type a port so we've got those fullsize USBS over here and that's about it when it comes to overall external IO taking a look at the overall specs of this laptop here like I mentioned this is powered by a Snapdragon XLE and you got to keep in mind there are several different versions of this I consider this about their mid-range lower clocks on the CPU and lower clocks on the GPU when opposed to their higher end version but we've got the same amount of cores and threads this is the X Elite x1e 78100 12 cores 12 threads this will boost up to 3.4 GHz and yet can stay there all day long 42 megab of cache 16 GB of LP ddr5x Ram running really fast here at 8,448 MHz a 15.6 in 120 HZ 3K OLED display it's got a 16.9 aspect ratio 100% DCI 3 and up to 600 nits of hdrp brightness a 1 TB m.2 NVM this is a PCI E 4.0 SSD Wi-Fi 7 Bluetooth 5.4 it's got a 70w hour battery and like I mentioned this is running Windows 11 it's actually Windows 11 home it's not a water down ARM version this is full-fledged Windows on this PC using Microsoft's new translation layer known as prism and the total package here is only coming in at 3.1 3 lb so I've been using this laptop for about a week and a half and when it comes to overall performance this thing is really quick again if that Snapdragon sticker wasn't on there I wouldn't know that this was powered by an arm chip everything has just worked now there are a few exceptions when I get over to some gaming we'll talk about that in a second but as for everyday normal use cases on this laptop web browsing email checking document editing even photo editing using Photoshop or this thing is super quick I mean it handles all of that with without an issue and we're not burning that much power right now because I'm on battery now there is a way to get this up to around 45 Watts while you're plugged into the wall and if you want a game on it that's exactly what you want to do but when using this laptop on the go and you're looking to get great battery life out of it it's not a problem to keep it in kind of just balanced mode here 4K video playback works out amazingly on this I'm using the Chrome browser through this 4K 60 HDR video here we only dropped two frames and those kind of came in towards the beginning of the video which is normal even for my high-end gaming PC I have this happen and I'll tell you my favorite laptop displays right now are these Asus oads this does up to 120 HZ 0.2 millisecond response time and you know it's very on par with their nebula series for their higher end Rog line this looks amazing the colors pop super smooth deep blacks again yeah I really do love what they've done here with this olad and of course just like a lot of the other PCS hitting the Market this does have co-pilot we've got the dedicated button right on the keyboard so we can go ahead and just ask this to generate an image for us we'll do a Godzilla kitten a cute Godzilla kitten see what this thing can do and keep in mind when generating images with co-pilot it's not going to use the built-in npu here it's actually going to be hitting up a server it's uh this you this uses this uses dolly for image generation and I do like the uh new animation that they have here kind of gives us that windows logo it's going to generate four images for us and yeah that's definitely a cute Godzilla kitten for sure with each one of these images we can actually select specific parts of the image and it'll give us a suggestion right at the bottom if we want to go ahead and change this to let's say a steampunk kitten just gave me the option here sometimes this works sometimes it doesn't I'm not exactly sure if it's going to be able to swap this over to a steampunk kitten but up front did give us a pretty cute Godzilla kitten I'm going to try one one more here and we'll just do a ninja kitten next thing I wanted to take a look at was the BIOS and in the past I've tested a few of the mini PCS that are powered by arm chips running Windows and most of them don't have a real bios like we have here unfortunately there's no performance settings but we do have access to secure boot we can disable our USB you know all of the basics that a bios kind of needs and maybe in the future we'll see a Snapdragon Elite chip hit the market that was specifically for gaming and from the BIOS we'll be able to you know crank up the fan speed TDP and things like that but for now we do have access to all of the basics I just swapped over to my game capture to make it a bit easier to see and I wanted to talk about these performance profiles since we're using an Asus laptop we do have to access my Asus and for all of the benchmarks that you're going to see I'm going to be in the max performance mode opening this up we can go to our device settings and we've got four modes to choose from full speed mode and this is known as fan mode but it does affect TDP we've also got a performance mode standard mode and a whisper mode whisper mode is actually great for web browsing it'll even do 4K video playback and that's where you're going to get kind of the best battery life out of this thing but for gaming emulation and benchmarks I wanted to see exactly what we could get out of this thing so we're going to be in the max performance mode now I want to move over to some CPU benchmarks and since we're working with an arm chip I figured it'd be fair enough to kind of compare this to the M3 I've got an iMac with that Apple M3 we're also going to take a look at performance against the Intel ultra7 155h first up we've got geekbench 6 and on the Snapdragon X Elite we got a single core of 2398 multi 14,115 remember we are in kind of Max performance mode here up to 45 watts and when it comes to that Apple M3 on my iMac I did install something known as speed fan so can get that fan up to 100% it's not going to Thermal throttle at least in theory single core 382 multi 11992 remember the Snapdragon has 12 cores that M3 has eight and a higher clock up to around 4.2 gahz so that M3 in single core did beat out the Snapdragon but uh yeah we're coming ahead in multi and finally at the very bottom we've got that Intel Ultra 7 155h single core 236 multi 10,267 that has 16 cores and 32 threads keep that in mind I also tested CER bench just the multicore here and on that Snapdragon X Elite we got a total score of 12,347 the Apple M3 coming in at 9,857 and that Intel Ultra 7 155h did beat both of them out with a 13,44 but it wasn't by much and this is multicore again 155h has 16 cores and 32 threads moving over to some GPU performance using geekbench 6 the open CL Benchmark Snapdragon X Elite is kind of falling far behind when it comes to the Apple M3 and it's even fallen behind that Intel Ultra 71 155h that Snapdragon X Elite 21,1 another GPU Benchmark I ran here was 3D Mark night raid and we're just taking a look at it on the Snapdragon X Elite 26491 and just to kind of put this into perspective for you the Radeon 78m and the 7,0 8,000 series ryzen chips scores anywhere from 28,000 up to 31,000 with this Benchmark it's not too far off but these are synthetics and now I want to move over to some real world gaming starting off pretty light here with Hades 2 we are at high settings 1080P and it's running at a constant 120 now unfortunately with these new Snapdragon chips something like after burner and even Hardware info isn't really working to tell us exactly what's going on with the chip I was able to get the FPS counter with rivet tuner work in here but if we give it a little bit of time I'm sure we can get Hardware info working so we can see exactly what's going on with that GPU and CPU next up we've got Skyrim this is OG Skyrim 1080p low settings 120 FPS so far not so bad but these are easier to run games and I do want to mention that Qualcomm and Microsoft aren't touting this as a gaming chip but I do suspect that in the future we're going to see some pretty good performance out of these things when you compare them to lower in x86 CPUs and maybe even Next Generation we'll get a much more powerful GPU but let's take it up a notch Spider-Man Miles Morales 720p low settings with FSR set to Performance this kind of looks like the performance we were seeing out of this game when it launched on igpus getting an average of around 48 fps and in due time I really do think that we'll see much better performance out of these Snapdragon gpus I also tested a couple built-in benchmarks we've got shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p low settings we got an average of 50 FPS and the last game I wanted to test here was cyberpunk 277 1080p low settings with FSR set to Performance FSR does really help out but one thing I'm noticing with these higher end AAA games is even going from 720 up to 1080 our average FPS really doesn't change that much maybe 1 to 2 FPS from 720 to 1080 and with this at 1080 we got an average of 33 FPS I also wanted to take a look at a little bit of emulation and when it comes to the Dolphin Emulator the team over there actually does have a Windows on ARM version that's what we're using here autom modista Vulcan backend 1440p running at a constant 60 there were some other emulators that I really wanted to test here but I got a lot of crashing we have to wait just a bit for the Snapdragon X Elite chips to mature just a little bit but taking a look at GameCube and Wii performance up to 1440p is totally possible with most of the games that are compatible with this emulator First Impressions here for the Snapdragon X Elite chip I really do like the performance we're seeing and I mean it's only been on the market for a few days I know they've been doing a lot behind the scenes with this Microsoft and Qualcomm but what we're seeing right now is really great is this the future of thin and light laptops personally I do think it is we will see a performance uplift on these X Elite chips that we have right now but you know coming down the line with newer chips I really do think that these could replace a lot of the x86 on the market but when it comes to like a full-fledged gaming laptop I think we're definitely a few years off from replacing those x86 chips with arm but for the everyday person using their laptop this is more than enough and I'm pretty pretty impressed by it but that's going to wrap it up for my first look video I really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning a little more about the Asus Vivo book S15 I'll leave some links down below and if there's anything else you want to see running on these Snapdragon X Elite chips let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watching\n"