New Qualcomm graphics driver for Surface devices with Snapdragon X Elite

If you’re using Microsoft Surface devices powered by Snapdragon® X Elite, it’s time for you to download and install our latest upgradeable graphics driver.

Version 31.0.82.0 is a package that enables several new games as well as improving performance and adding fixes in others. On the AI front, it includes Qualcomm Adreno™ GPU performance optimizations for models in Qualcomm AI Hub and and WebNN models in the browser via DirectML.

Improvements for games, AI and creativity apps​

Accelerating AI on GPU via DirectML​

DirectML, or Direct Machine Learning, is a low-level API developed by Microsoft for running machine learning workloads on DirectX 12-compatible hardware. It provides hardware acceleration for various machine learning tasks, making it ideal for real-time, high-performance, and low-latency applications.

DirectML is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing DirectX 12 workflows, allowing developers to incorporate machine learning inferencing into games, engines, middleware, and other applications.

With the latest upgradeable graphics driver release, we have added performance enhancements for Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Qualcomm AI Hub models on the Qualcomm Adreno GPU via DirectML. Developers can also now run models like Stable Diffusion 1.5, Stable Diffusion Turbo, Segment Anything, Whisper, MobileNet, and ResNet directly in their web browser through WebNN.

Creativity apps

Users of creativity titles on devices powered by Snapdragon X Series will enjoy improvements like these:

· Fixes for DaVinci Fusion corruption

· Fix for Adobe After Effects crash

Game enablement and fixes​

You’ll find support for new games and fixes for existing games in titles such as these:

• Baldur’s Gate
• Strange Brigade
• Black Myth: Wukong Benchmark Tool
• Ark Survival Ascended
• Dying Light2

Game performance​

Several titles now run better because of improvements like higher frames per second:

• God of War
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Diablo 4
• Grand Theft Auto V (GTAV)
• Forge of Empires
• World War Z

Next steps​

If you’ve already registered, you can access the graphics driver; otherwise, register here, then access the graphics driver.

Once you’ve installed the driver, try running:

• some of your favorite games listed above and in the release notes mentioned in the driver package
• selected WebNN developer preview models built around Microsoft DirectML
• models in Qualcomm AI Hub via DirectML

Let us know what you think! You can connect to the developer community through our Windows on Snapdragon support forum and on Discord.