The best material on the subject is over at the Passmark forums.
The difference between x86 (PC) and ARM instruction sets is mainly in terms of performance - and PCs are MUCH faster than smartphones. However, I would point out that what you have is multitudes faster than any ARM based chipset that I'm aware of. The implication of this partnership is that Intel based games will not run properly or at all on the Bluestacks emulator (which is just a Dalvik machine that runs on Windows). The specifics aren't all that clear, but it's been said that this is to allow Android gaming on AMD hardware.Īs it stands right now, in THEORY you should be able to play your Android games on any platform, provided that the software is coded in Java and you have the Android version of the Java virtual machine, which is known as the Dalvik virtual machine (IIRC). I don't know if this helps any, but Bluestacks recently cut a deal with AMD - in exchange for 6.5 million USD, Bluestacks is making their software specifically compatible with AMD's new APU technology (where the GPU is on die).