Intel has shown "Battlefield V" running at 1080p and 30+ fps on a thin, lightweight Tiger Lake-based laptop. This is a pretty impressive effort from the Intel Xe GPU in the upcoming Tiger Lake mobile chips, and means that with this new generation of 10nm chips, it may actually be possible to get a decent level of gaming performance on a thin work laptop.

The Tiger Lake prototype laptop was previewed on Twitter by Chief Performance Strategist and tech journalist Ryan Shrout. He dives into the BFV single player campaign and shows the game's option settings to highlight that it runs at 1080p with the "High" preset enabled.

You can also see that he is running on the DirectX 11 API rather than DirectX 12, which is not a substantial loss unless you are looking for first generation ray tracing action (which Intel Xe definitely does not support), and in any case, generally more reliable would provide higher performance.

Shrout has not delved deeply into what the specs are for a laptop or Tiger lake CPU, so we don't know how many execution units (EUs) this particular integrated Xe graphics chip is going to have built in, but if it is not a top chip I would be surprised if it is not. [If rumors and speculation are correct, this notebook's GPU slice would be 96 EU, which would surpass the 64 EU of the top Ice Lake CPU, the Core i7 1065G7.

While exceeding 30 fps at 1080p is an impressive achievement for such a thin and light machine, it is worth pointing out that this demonstrated performance comes with a few caveats. One is that the single-player campaign of Battlefield V is significantly lighter on system resources than the multiplayer maps, and is likely due to dynamic scaling of quality settings due to GPU memory allocation on the Tiger Lake silicon.

The "GPU Memory Limit" feature is clearly enabled in the video, which allows the game to adjust texture, lighting, and effects settings based on the amount of video memory available; if you have 4GB or more, you can comfortably play with the "High" preset, but if you have 2.5GB or If you have only 1.5GB, Battlefield's Frostbite engine will scale down to "Medium" or "Low," respectively.

Cautions aside, the Ryzen 9 4900HS, AMD's top competing mobile chip, reportedly recorded about 25 fps at the same settings.