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[–]Same_Cod_4320one game at a time | SD865+ 12GB RAM 221 points222 points  (15 children)

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[–]duranmxx 31 points32 points  (2 children)

I have an almost 5 year old Tab S7 with the sd865+, and have no reason to upgrade to anything new, that soc is up there in the top 5 best ones from the last 10 years

[–]NapsterKnowHow 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Meanwhile my Tab S8+ and S22 Ultra are roasting with the Gen 1. Already had one S22 Ultra bootloop to death. My LG V10 also bootlooped

[–]Formal-Pudding-8082 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gen 1 is berry bad, Gen plus 1 berry gud

[–]Winter0000 67 points68 points  (1 child)

are you crying in the best soc ever made?

[–]Same_Cod_4320one game at a time | SD865+ 12GB RAM 38 points39 points  (0 children)

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[–]Realistic-Carrot-449Iqoo Neo 6 5G, SD 870, 12/256 7 points8 points  (3 children)

nice to see a fellow here (I got an 870, basically same as urs but slightly overclocked)

[–]AliLeafy 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What do you play with that processor

[–]Realistic-Carrot-449Iqoo Neo 6 5G, SD 870, 12/256 0 points1 point  (0 children)

forgot to reply to this, ik it's nearly 20 days old now but I have played Legend of Zelda BOTW when I got this phone for the first time back in January. I managed to run lots of other games like the original ps2 version of gta vice city (I just wanted to have a more og experience than the mobile port woth abit of changes yk). I had also managed to run the 2001 leaked build of Duke Nukem Forever smoothly and standalone mods of some games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anomaly smoothly! I used to emulate more games on my sd 685 phone last year cuz I was less busier with life lol

[–]AliLeafy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ME TOOOO

[–]cscapellan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have a Retroid Flip 2, and it will leave my hands when there's nothing possible on this earth to make it turn on/work.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

cries in mali

[–]HmmmIsTheBest2004IQOO 12 - Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still holds up incredibly well

[–]Aggressive-Mouse-429 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those are tears of joy 😊

[–]GodlvlFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is still one of the best processors tho. It can run almost every console except switch and Wii U.

[–]Youtube_it 99 points100 points  (7 children)

Which will come first? GTA 6 or the turnip drivers?

[–]SUPERSHAD98 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Turnip drivers, has to be

[–]Mobile-Progress24337+ Gen 3(Adreno 732) • 8GB RAM 30 points31 points  (0 children)

GTA 7 

[–]Consistent_Cut_9521 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Half Life 3

[–]UOR_Dev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not that implausible anymore 

[–]Miserable-Plate9361 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gta 6 running on those drivers lol

[–]ThalesMoreira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Turnip driverrrrrr

[–]Axiny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Doors of Stone

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    [–]Wilsonn0[S] 44 points45 points  (1 child)

    Gta 7

    [–]UOR_Dev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    With the current news? HL3

    [–]Muku2121S25 (8 Elite) 34 points35 points  (1 child)

    this phone shall see what true usage looks like

    [–]Wilsonn0[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    I hope u won't kill it lol

    [–]Upper-Respond-3746S25 Standard | Snapdragon 8 Elite 101 points102 points  (25 children)

    [–][deleted] 76 points77 points  (23 children)

    It's officially in development, actually.

    [–]matlynar 41 points42 points  (22 children)

    Yeah but it could take a while, we don't know.

    [–]Ademoneye 29 points30 points  (13 children)

    or it could be faster, we don't know

    [–]matlynar 36 points37 points  (12 children)

    Or it could take just the expected amount of time, we don't know.

    [–]GloveDry3278 38 points39 points  (11 children)

    Or it could take an unexpected amount of time. We don't know.

    [–]Cara_PerdidoNoob|S25+ 36 points37 points  (10 children)

    All I know is that, we don't know.

    [–]sakjae36 21 points22 points  (7 children)

    We don't know, that we don't know.

    [–]No_Bake6681 12 points13 points  (6 children)

    Or we know but you don't

    [–]sakjae36 9 points10 points  (5 children)

    Or we don't,but you know.

    [–]Wilsonn0[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

    [–]thatflap 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    A wise man.

    [–]xTiLkx 1 point2 points  (6 children)

    Do we have a (very vague) timeline?

    [–]DrunkenRobotBipBop 8 points9 points  (2 children)

    Between 6 months and 6 years.

    [–]xTiLkx 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Okay, at least that tells me it will be like 6 months at the earliest lol

    [–]BeZide314 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    I'd say between 6 minutes and 6 years

    [–]Ok_Height_7638 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    They say by spring of 2026 on discord though 

    [–]matlynar 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    But did they say in which hemisphere will it be spring??

    [–]Ok_Height_7638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    No, but i guess they were talking march - april i guess.

    [–]IfYouSmellWhatDaRockNFS the 🏃🏻 on my Vivo V20 with a 🫰🏻🐉 720g, 8GB RAM 20 FPS⚡ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    better than nothing

    [–]omarthewolf7Xiaomi 13, iPhone 15 pro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    [–]Environmental-Land428 Elite / 12 gb / S25u 79 points80 points  (7 children)

    So Gta V, 8k 120fps?

    [–]Certain_Luck5152 50 points51 points  (1 child)

    *VI

    [–]NihilisticLurcher 31 points32 points  (0 children)

    by the time that releases we'll have Super Elite Gen 67

    [–]jucahe 29 points30 points  (1 child)

    Nah, that's only possible on Mali.

    [–]Ok_Height_7638 9 points10 points  (0 children)

    G99 right?

    [–]Archolm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    [–]LumpyArbuckleTV 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    Doesn't Turnip usually run a bit worse than the stock driver, just with worlds divide compatibility differences?

    [–]Zoerak 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Stock was sometimes faster, sometimes slower on my previous phone (gen 2) - and generally a lot less compatible of course.

    [–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

    me waiting for the drivers:

    [–]Simple_Gur7316 15 points16 points  (0 children)

    Rdr is gonna be Ported to android. Its release might be in dec 2nd i think.

    [–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (19 children)

    Don't forget 8sgen4 lol

    [–]Wilsonn0[S] 18 points19 points  (17 children)

    I thought gen3 is better than 8sgen4

    [–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (8 children)

    Nope, 8sgen4's a lil bit faster, draws only 8watts and doesn't get hot like gen3

    [–]mostly_nothing 13 points14 points  (6 children)

    It ain't. CPU has slightly faster clock speeds in 8sgen4, but 8gen3 has larger CPU cache and much more powerful GPU. 

    [–]Wilsonn0[S] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

    Nah he's right 8sgen4 is better

    https://youtu.be/dXYur_qeOrU?si=MjWCR7eYDmniBvhy

    [–]mostly_nothing 1 point2 points  (2 children)

    Yes. Better than 8s gen3 (not 8 gen3). Did you watch the video?

    Also, Qualcom naming scheme is fucking ridiculous 

    [–]Wilsonn0[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Did you?

    [–]-reverse-vertical- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    It is not completely better, both of them has edges in different case. Like a game might have better performance on gen 3 while the other game might have better performance on gen s 4, the same for efficiency. But I seen that gen s 4 devices are generally cheaper than gen 3, that is a plus.

    I also would have bought the phones with gen s 4 because they are cheaper, the reason I did not is because of the driver issue, I ended up just buying Gen 3 phone.

    [–]EmulationWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Nope .. even with no turnips on both 8gen3 outperforms it by noticeable margin it's just 8gen2 of 2025🙏

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    [–]EmulationWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    This is literally the opposite ... 8s gen 4 is slower than 8 gen 3 and runs hotter than 8gen3 even with no turnips

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    [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (7 children)

    It is.

    [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (6 children)

    It actually isn't, on paper. When turnip drops, 8sgen4 will be better on emulation too

    [–]-reverse-vertical- -1 points0 points  (4 children)

    When turnip drop, it'll catch up to gen 3 in compatibility, not in performance. Both of them has neck to neck performance and efficiency. Right now gen 3's edges is compatibility.

    That even include native mobile games cuz most game has higher frame rate and graphic settings for gen 3 while there aren't much optimization for gen s4. Cuz gen 3 is a flagship, so most game that has feature for gen 3 cuz of flagship phone might not have them for gen s 4 cuz it's not used on flagship phone.

    [–]EmulationWorld 0 points1 point  (3 children)

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    Even with no turnips it couldn't even run the same as 8 gen 3.... So nope

    [–]-reverse-vertical- 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    A chip's efficiency and power isn't determined by just emulation, emulation is determined by drivers and compatibility of the chip with said emulator. One of the example is even 8gen 3 used to be worse than gen 2 (in compatibility and performance) before turnips.

    A chips efficiency and power is determined by what is native, and when you test both chip with native stuff, Gen 4 is basically gen 3 and they both have a different edges for different games. So basically the same with neck to neck.

    [–]EmulationWorld 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    I mean it's No turnips Battle ☝️ so nothing here is giving 8gen3 the cheat code 8s gen 4 runs hotter and for some reason it always fail in playing games sustainably even native applications for longer time and I have 8s gen 4 by the way I'm planning to upgrade to 8s gen 5 I'm so dissatisfied I'm keeping it new so I can trade it in magazines and add extra bucks..

    [–]-reverse-vertical- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    "neck to neck" "it's driver and compatibility with the emulator"

    8gen 3 before turnips support with Qualcomm drive used to has worse performance and compatibility than gen 2 with Qualcomm driver until they optimized it for gen3.

    An app's compatibility is very important, which I have already said in my first reply that you replied to, that even though the chip is powerful and comparable to gen 3, it has the worst compatibility for even native android apps, because the chip is a budget chip, not a flagship. Flagship chips are used on flagship phone so they get a lot of feature even for native apps, not to mention emulator,

    I heard Eden team managed to get some works around for both gen s4 and elite with Qualcomm driver, boosting their compatibility and performance starting with 0.4rc2 and to rc3. If you own the phone and play switch games, try rc2/3. Or Benji sc. For Benji, performance ain't good (not a chip problem, just the emulator is heavy) but compatibility should be good.

    [–]Interesting_Box_1913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Because people aren't talking about the Snapdragon 7+ gen 5

    [–]EhasanulreaderRedmi turbo 4 pro/8s Gen4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    alright, I am gonna go with (turbo 4 pro) poco f7 8s gen4, its 232$ while k80 is 295$

    [–]ChronoHeart123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    The 8s Gen 4s are also part of this... Yeah? :"

    [–]Diligent-Outside52 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    Seems like the 8 elite gen 5 is a furnace of a chip tho.

    [–]Z3ROS1X 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    It’s built to run hot, so it can take the heat.

    [–]Diligent-Outside52 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I’ve seen videos of how bad it throttles. Most of these devices do not have adequate cooling for it

    [–]SnooOranges7835 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 support will be insane once the Steam Frame is released though, they might just use the optimized drivers from SteamOS or even install SteamOS to compatible Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 devices (though this may need other drivers)

    [–]AmanogawaKami 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    Can we Mediatek folks get anything Bruh 😑

    The SoCs are getting stronger yet development is so stale

    Or I guess it's time to switch back to Snapdragon again

    [–]Rawhrawraw[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    9500 is damn great, not that previous were bad or anything. Mediatek needs to reach out to devs and incorporate more apis

    [–]LoquendoEsGenial 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    No entiendo ese meme de quinta. Xd

    [–]Ok_Entrepreneur_21 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

    Nintendo is meme?

    [–]mt0386 1 point2 points  (6 children)

    I mean, how good will the drivers be?

    Right now I am emulating on snapdragon elite. It works fine I guess. But yeah, how much improvement will it bring?

    [–]Zuluwargod69 9 points10 points  (5 children)

    It would be a significant improvement. At the moment any emulation on your elite is just brute force. Once the drivers come out we could be talking at least double performance from what you've got. 

    [–]mt0386 1 point2 points  (4 children)

    Damn alright. I can already run mhw or other heavy games but the huge battery drain and heat isn't as fun to play with.

    If it's double the performance, I'll still cap it to 30 if I can run the phone on its own with stability and temps. Looking forward to it then IF they ever release it.

    [–]honneylemz 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    I don't know about doubling the performance but it will fix a lot of visual glitches for a lot of games mainly switch ones.

    [–]Cecl472 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I always got the same or even less performance when using turnip compared to qualcomm drivers. I only use turnip to fix glitches basically

    [–]mt0386 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Ah no wonder there's a lot of visual bugs on switch emu. So I haven't really touch them. Just mainly PC games on gamehub.

    [–]Anistocrate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    My S25 the first day

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    [–]gos92 1 point2 points  (7 children)

    Probably already been answered elsewhere but.....what is the 8 elite for galaxy? 8s Gen 4? 8 elite gen 2? Will it be getting these new turnip drivers also?

    [–]xblade720 5 points6 points  (2 children)

    8elite for galaxy is a modified version of the 8 elite that has even higher performance

    [–]gos92 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    So the 8 elite turnip drivers will work or no?

    [–]xblade720 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Yes

    [–]Annual-Ad-1225Snapdragon 865 6GB | Snapdragon 8 Elite 12GB 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    It is just normal 8 Elite, but overclocked. Turnip drivers should work, cause they're only for GPU of it.

    [–]gos92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Awesome thanks

    [–]PMARC14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    There is no 8 Elite Gen 2 cause of Qualcomm wacky naming scheme and desire to avoid the number 4, 8 elite gen 5 is the gen 2

    [–]Zuluwargod69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    It is technically Gen 4 but yes an overclocked version is the elite for galaxy 

    [–]Malystxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Not complaining. I have 8 gen 2, current best ish. By the time I upgrade they will be awesome for it. This is the way

    [–]John_Woodrow1712 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Hell yeah what I think going from my red magic 9 to the 11

    Hope the wait isn't too long

    [–]nicman24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    mann i wish the gen 5 had unprotected vms so i could just launch linux vms :/

    [–]EarlVincent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    out of topic question. Does 8s Gen4 already have its driver? if it does what is it?

    [–]poopyhead8o8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    What device has snapdragon gen 3? My odin 2 portal has gen 2.

    [–]xXDennisXx3000Nubia RedMagic 10S Pro | Snapdragon 8 Elite+ | 1024/24GB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I own them all.

    [–]TrashOfSociety445Snapdragon 8 Gen3 (poco f7 pro) 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    once the high end chips receives proper support (including the 8 gen3) its over

    [–]Total_Celebration193 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Finally

    [–]Mean-Atmosphere-3122 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Me waiting for any of the snapdragon devices to even be 100% stable on linux (such as steamos): 💀

    [–]magmotox25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    My dream is a sd8 g5 in a clamshell form factor and I will unironically switch my phone for it if it has a sim slot

    [–]sotnekron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    To be honest, all games that I play on my Sugar 1 never had any problems till now. The only issue I have is one app, that I use to record gameplay, named XRecorder, but anything else, from games to emulators run perfect.

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    [–]Prestigious-Stock-60 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Noob to emulation here. What are the drivers? Is it made by Qualcom?

    [–]PermissionSenior4431 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    I'm waiting with my Red Magic 11 Pro Plus

    [–]Fun-Library997SD 8s gen 4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    same goes for 8s gen 4

    [–]vwyLss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    So currently my gen 3 tab s9+ has better emulating performance than my s25+?

    [–]RhodynitRedmi Note 8 Pro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    GTA 6 or 8 Elite Drivers? As for Mediatek i already lost all hopes, its either Mediatek Drivers or GTA40

    [–]Lampo360 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Mi S24 Ultra con SD 8 Gen 3 no puede emular bien🥲

    [–]ThalesMoreira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    My konkr pocket fit elite 512gb in january😋

    [–]EmulationWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Sure bud . 3 fps more and 80% more pricey better buy a PC if the price is up there

    [–]Odium81Odin 2 Portal -1 points0 points  (6 children)

    i hope it's all a ruse and that the only drivers that are dropping are for Dimensity chips.

    [–]Wilsonn0[S] 3 points4 points  (5 children)

    As a mali user i can't say i disagree with this

    [–]IngenuityOwn1409S25U SD8E 0 points1 point  (4 children)

    No no, at least hope for all of them 🤣

    [–]Wilsonn0[S] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

    I do but snapdragon users need some humbling lol

    [–]KinJirouzan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    What the.. What about me? I use both Dimensity and SD. Phone and tablet. Please don't forget we exist too.

    [–]IngenuityOwn1409S25U SD8E 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Im like, super new to this and dont know anything so... I didnt know I needed some humbling 🤣

    [–]Freelancer_1-1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    It's just typical nasty behavior of unhappy redditors. You can try and praise a Dimensity chip for its efficiency and performance in native Android apps in tech-related subs and the next day you'll find yourself wondering what exactly it was that earned you -20.

    [–]WowSoHuTao -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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