Qualcomm Snapdron 8 Elite SoC Capable of Running Red Dead Redemption 2 via Emulation

[T0@st]

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.




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[chstamos]

Seeing how the market is completely , utterly stagnant, both on price and performance, maybe they should think about hiring lots and lots of programmers to make decent drivers and port their 3D technology to a discrete PC GPU lineup. nVidia and AMD will certainly give them all the time in the world to catch up.

 

[Denver]

"Industry experts"

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

 

[Wirko]

Hey, it's Rhododendron, not Snapdron.

 

[_roman_]

I want to see those games from the 5090 benchmarks running at 135% better as the current 9800X3d. Of course with 80% of the wattage used as the 9800X3d. Before it is not worth. Posting some outdated - mediocre - old technology games is just a proof of concept - work in progress statement.

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.

 

[10tothemin9volts]

According AMD's own slides (search engine: "Strix Point vs Snapdragon X"), Strix Point is 60% faster than Snapdragon X. The gaming power efficiency is about equal, which is good (review compares against Hawk Point, but Strix Point has the same Radeon 700M iGPU). I'd like QUALCOMM equal AMD's iGPU performance and make sure the games and apps run (from the review: "However, there can also be crashes (often happened during gaming tests) or the apps simply won't launch at all.").