alt Hacker NewsI think this is the first time an ARM windows device gets marketed for gaming. Would be interesting to see what kind of performance hit games have on the x86 to ARM translation layer.
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lowbloodsugar • today at 6:18 PM
Apple Silicon has a special mode that modified how the ARM chip handles memory transactions to be like x86. Does this nvidia ARM have the same?
What would be interesting to me would be how quickly developers start targeting ARM64 directly.
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Rosetta on Mac was obviously impressive. There was also impressive Arm->Intel translation in the mobile ecosystem at one time.
One reason it works surprisingly well on modern systems is how much is offloaded to the GPU. You aren't going to get great power optimization or anything without it being truly native though.
There are games which are CPU limited though, and it will be interesting how those do. Curiously those also tend to be in engines with Arm support already.