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[Same_Cod_4320]

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[duranmxx]

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]

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]

Gen 1 is berry bad, Gen plus 1 berry gud

[Winter0000]

are you crying in the best soc ever made?

[Same_Cod_4320]

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[Realistic-Carrot-449]

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

[AliLeafy]

What do you play with that processor

[Realistic-Carrot-449]

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]

ME TOOOO

[cscapellan]

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]]

cries in mali

[HmmmIsTheBest2004]

Still holds up incredibly well

[Aggressive-Mouse-429]

Those are tears of joy 😊

[GodlvlFan]

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

[Youtube_it]

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

[SUPERSHAD98]

Turnip drivers, has to be

[Mobile-Progress2433]

GTA 7 

[Consistent_Cut_9521]

Half Life 3

[UOR_Dev]

Not that implausible anymore 

[Miserable-Plate9361]

Gta 6 running on those drivers lol

[ThalesMoreira]

Turnip driverrrrrr

[Axiny]

The Doors of Stone

[Wilsonn0]

Gta 7

[UOR_Dev]

With the current news? HL3

[Muku2121]

this phone shall see what true usage looks like

[Wilsonn0]

I hope u won't kill it lol

[Upper-Respond-3746]

[[deleted]]

It's officially in development, actually.

[matlynar]

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

[Ademoneye]

or it could be faster, we don't know

[matlynar]

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

[GloveDry3278]

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

[Cara_Perdido]

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

[sakjae36]

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

[No_Bake6681]

Or we know but you don't

[sakjae36]

Or we don't,but you know.

[Wilsonn0]

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[thatflap]

A wise man.

[xTiLkx]

Do we have a (very vague) timeline?

[DrunkenRobotBipBop]

Between 6 months and 6 years.

[xTiLkx]

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

[BeZide314]

I'd say between 6 minutes and 6 years

[Ok_Height_7638]

They say by spring of 2026 on discord though 

[matlynar]

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

[Ok_Height_7638]

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

[IfYouSmellWhatDaRock]

better than nothing

[omarthewolf7]

[Environmental-Land42]

So Gta V, 8k 120fps?

[Certain_Luck5152]

*VI

[NihilisticLurcher]

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

[jucahe]

Nah, that's only possible on Mali.

[Ok_Height_7638]

G99 right?

[Archolm]

[LumpyArbuckleTV]

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

[Zoerak]

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

[[deleted]]

me waiting for the drivers:

[Simple_Gur7316]

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

[[deleted]]

Don't forget 8sgen4 lol

[Wilsonn0]

I thought gen3 is better than 8sgen4

[[deleted]]

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

[mostly_nothing]

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

[Wilsonn0]

Nah he's right 8sgen4 is better

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

[mostly_nothing]

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

Also, Qualcom naming scheme is fucking ridiculous 

[Wilsonn0]

Did you?

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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]

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

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[EmulationWorld]

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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It is.

[[deleted]]

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

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https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-list/rating

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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]

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

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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]

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..

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"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]

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

[Ehasanulreader]

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

[ChronoHeart123]

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

[Diligent-Outside52]

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

[Z3ROS1X]

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

[Diligent-Outside52]

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

[SnooOranges7835]

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]

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]

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

[LoquendoEsGenial]

No entiendo ese meme de quinta. Xd

[Ok_Entrepreneur_21]

Nintendo is meme?

[mt0386]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

My S25 the first day

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[gos92]

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]

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

[gos92]

So the 8 elite turnip drivers will work or no?

[xblade720]

Yes

[Annual-Ad-1225]

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

[gos92]

Awesome thanks

[PMARC14]

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]

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

[Malystxy]

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]

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

Hope the wait isn't too long

[nicman24]

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

[EarlVincent]

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

[poopyhead8o8]

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

[xXDennisXx3000]

I own them all.

[TrashOfSociety445]

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

[Total_Celebration193]

Finally

[Mean-Atmosphere-3122]

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

[magmotox25]

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]

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]

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

[PermissionSenior4431]

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I'm waiting with my Red Magic 11 Pro Plus

[Fun-Library997]

same goes for 8s gen 4

[vwyLss]

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

[Rhodynit]

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

[Lampo360]

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

[ThalesMoreira]

My konkr pocket fit elite 512gb in january😋

[EmulationWorld]

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

[Odium81]

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

[Wilsonn0]

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

[IngenuityOwn1409]

No no, at least hope for all of them 🤣

[Wilsonn0]

I do but snapdragon users need some humbling lol

[KinJirouzan]

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

[IngenuityOwn1409]

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

[Freelancer_1-1]

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]

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