Amidst the controversy around Windows 11’s new (mostly-unwanted) Copilot+ features, a developer on Twitter has taken the discussion a step further by revealing that one of the flagship new features, Recall, doesn’t require the presence of a powerful NPU after all. This makes sense, though, considering Recall’s main functions seem to be automated screen captures and the ability to search through those screen caps’ text — two things that modern hardware has been capable of for a while, now.
Making great progress enabling Recall on current Arm64 hardware, no fancy X Elite in sight! Should theoretically work on Intel/AMD too, OEMs only received Arm64 specific ML model bundles so there’s not much I can do yet.Here’s a small demo video showing off screenray pic.twitter.com/w57fF1LxiNMay 23, 2024
The big question is, will these workloads run as fast without an NPU? According to @thebookisclosed, the slow performance seen in the video above can be partially attributed to the screen recording taking place, so it should be faster without it.
Should theoretically work on Intel/AMD too, OEMs only received Arm64 specific ML model bundles so there’s not much I can do yet.Here’s a small demo video showing off screenray
pic.twitter.com/w57fF1LxiNMay 23, 2024
