Wednesday, January 29th 2025
Qualcomm Snapdron 8 Elite SoC Capable of Running Red Dead Redemption 2 via Emulation
As evidenced in leaks from late last year, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile processor is no slouch in terms of gaming performance—to be more specific, it is surprisingly adept at emulating "AAA" titles in an Android OS environment. Past examples include test platforms—allegedly—hitting 60+ frames per second (FPS) in A Plague Tale: Innocence (2019), and an astounding 160 FPS in Red Dead Redemption's recent-ish PC conversion (originally a 2010 release on PS3 & Xbox 360). Earlier this week, NoI_Revenant's attention was drawn to intriguing camera footage that was freshly uploaded to Bilibili. Said video demonstrates the PC version (2019) of Red Dead Redemption 2 running on an unnamed mobile device equipped with Qualcomm's flagship SoC.
Follow-up posts and comments propose that the game was running via a specific (Android-based) emulation application: Winlator. Observers have pointed out that it is difficult to ascertain exact details regarding visual fidelity from an overly blurry video—the original uploader/leaker mentions that they implemented "low graphical settings." On-screen information shows measured frame rates hovering around the 60 FPS mark. Industry experts reckon that Qualcomm latest "game-changing" Adreno GPU is capable of surpassing AMD's omnipresent Radeon 780M—a popular integrated graphics solution, frequently found in Ryzen Z1 Extreme-equipped handheld gaming PCs.
NO1-REVENANT: "Red Dead Redemption 2 running on Android (Snapdron 8 Elite)....How is this legal?"
Sources:
NoI_Revenant Tweet, NO1-REVENANT YouTube Channel, Wccftech
Follow-up posts and comments propose that the game was running via a specific (Android-based) emulation application: Winlator. Observers have pointed out that it is difficult to ascertain exact details regarding visual fidelity from an overly blurry video—the original uploader/leaker mentions that they implemented "low graphical settings." On-screen information shows measured frame rates hovering around the 60 FPS mark. Industry experts reckon that Qualcomm latest "game-changing" Adreno GPU is capable of surpassing AMD's omnipresent Radeon 780M—a popular integrated graphics solution, frequently found in Ryzen Z1 Extreme-equipped handheld gaming PCs.
4 Comments on Qualcomm Snapdron 8 Elite SoC Capable of Running Red Dead Redemption 2 via Emulation
I gave a slight smile reading that. The Adreno GPU can barely render games properly, but suddenly it's better than 780M which is compatible with everything. XD
This is like seeing a game port in a spreadsheet document or a portable document format.
I also want to see long term support from qualcom for any operating system like BSD, linux kernel, windows (should go at least to 7 or earlier and long term support to 2040 or later)
When I bought my Smartphones and previous devices I bought on purpose Snapdragon. Those software updates or booting times takes ages. All those snapdragon specs look like so awesome and so fast. In reality slow as hell. I had a lot of other smartphones at work where i did the mobile device management. I do not see much speed difference with other soc brands for smartphones. they should go to samsung and those other brands and improve the boot times and other update times.