Emulation performance now on the new samsung tab s8 ultra with the snapdragon 8 gen
1 how much of an improvement are we going to see so i will be testing out playstation 2 dreamcast
gamecube psp and n64 performance on this with the emulation now my base model here has just wi-fi
only so it's not the 5g version 8 gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage before i get
into those emulation tests i just wanted to point out here that we do get a bit of throttling with
the snapdragon 8 gen 1 here with samsung in their hands they tend to throttle it quite early in fact
from the very start it doesn't seem to turbo the gpu as high or hold the turbos is what i've
seen in snapdragon 8 gen 1 phones so you can see performance wise it starts to really throttle down
around five minutes into pushing it really hard remains quite steady but then it starts to come
back a little bit and you can see here the frame rate with the performance there it's up and down
all over the place so it's not peak snapdragon 8 gen 1 performance sadly even though the thermals
are really good i do feel that samsung could push it a little bit harder in this taking the antutu
score too you'll see that it could be higher there right okay now i've seen a snapdragon triple eight
get almost very similar scores to that and a phone but i've seen other phones now with this chipset
that are able to achieve over a million points that's just to point out that it could actually
perform just so much better which is a little bit disappointing so i'm going to launch everything
from the game launcher in the priority mode to get maximum performance here so the first one
i'm going to test out is one of my favorites is ppsspp which is the playstation portable emulator
and it's running perfect here so this game is using the psp's high resolution mode so that's
why it's kept to 30 frames per second but it's really steady excellent performance and really not
much point in me spending too much time with this one you can just see that it is going to run great
all the games really that you throw at it plenty performance from this snapdragon 8 gen 1. now
we'll test out one other game god of war here so this game looks absolutely fantastic considering
how old it is and this was on the playstation portable of course but had almost pretty much
playstation 2 level of graphics so we are looking around 60 frames per second i have seen it get
down to 51 but excellent performance here you see a bit of a frame dip just then and i always
play the start because that is really one of the most demanding parts here because it's rendering
so much we've got the ships in the background let me just see if i can shoot that ship now
and this is not lagging out at all maybe this bit well no still really good performance
then the next emulator is dreamcast this one's quite popular and the one i'm going to use for
it i know there's a few others out there but it's redream which is not showing up there for
some reason but here i have it redream now this is a very slick dreamcast emulator it
looks absolutely great the way the ui is laid out now the settings i'm going with here you can of
course adjust this but i've put the resolution up a little bit because i just like it to look
a little bit sharper and everything else really is standard there okay with the settings and the
region well i just kept all of that stuff there the same so marvel vs capcom 2 we'll see how this
one runs and performs on it okay so let's jump into a game here i want to see this run i can't
remember the controls on this at all because it's been so long since i've played it okay
so as expected this is really so easy for the system to be able to run this
because it's just 2d sprites here no stress at all so constant 60 frames per second
i don't see it dipping down at all now
so test this one out now just to point out i do have the paid version
the pro version okay here which is about 10 us dollars but it is well worth it
guys i'm tackling some zombies right here that are having a good munch on me
and the game's very dark here at the start you can't really see much at all
i can't even remember where to go controls are pretty poor with this part
oh okay got those ones there
it's really hard to control you just gotta go lift forward don't even remember these controls but
look at the frame rate it's just a solid 60 frames per second so dreamcast performance i won't let
you suffer with more of my terrible game play oh hey just chilling on me again oh got me okay looks
like i'm dead there so that's enough of my bad gameplay but code veronica just runs fine on this
playstation 2 emulation now so this is called a4 sx this ps2 emulator a lot of you recommended
that i try it from the last one so that's why i made a quick change to this video so the game
i'm testing out here is called coliseum road to rome and the frame rate you can see there's been
a few dips there but the actual gameplay looking super good this is very quick smooth fast no real
problems and dipping down just a little bit that frame rate but right now it's looking around the
lowest there of about 54 frames per second but very steady oh these npcs are incredibly hard
well i can see i'm losing this battle already
burnout three takedown now so this is a steady smooth solid 60 frames per second
and you can see that the cpu is at about 60 load oh i can't believe you didn't manage to take me
down so just 60 loader on that cpu it's not really stressing out the snapdragon 8 gen 1 here at all
see if i can get a little bit boost some near misses oh
that was some very very poor driving see this game not a problem and it looks like the playstation 2
emulation with the tab s8 ultra is just rock solid very good performance here
onto our nintendo 64 emulation now so this is m64 plus fz that i'm testing now i've got the
rendered resolution set to 720p now you can lower this down to improve the performance but i want to
test out and see how it's going to run a demanding game like goldeneye which i'll jump into now
so it's looking good oh down to 19. so a bit of a lag 16 frames per second 15 around this
area where it tends to choke a bit so i really do need to lower that render resolution down
this guy on the bunker here especially that 12 frames per second
oh it's just getting too laggy very leggy so i'll lower the resolution
down and we'll test this area again of the map
okay so i've set it now to 800 times 600 that should hopefully get rid of that lag or at least
give us a more playable frame rate okay so this area is still a little bit too choppy it's around
20 19 18 frames per second right now and i've got oh a few explosions going on is definitely
lagging things out here so not ideal performance i would love to see this at 30 frames per second
so certain areas on the map yes are going to be a little bit choppy and laggy even at 800 x 600
mario 64.
so this is running at 30 frames per second but i'll just jump into our first level
so continual solid just 30 frames per second it
sometimes hits around 29 28 but it's looking very very good
much better than what i remember with the tab s7 plus
finally gamecube now so this is soul calibur 2 that i'm loading up here and the emulator
is dolphin it's pretty well known i think most people would know this one so i'm just
going to go straight into a game here now i do have uh the graph here enabled so we can
see the frame rate here and the load on the cpu which really doesn't actually get up to
much i don't think it's using definitely not using all of the cores here okay so let's see
how this performs now it's getting down to you can see about 40 frames per second there
so a few dips here with this level but overall quite playable considering how the gamecube is
really demanding emulation the snapdragon 8gen1 is handling this pretty well okay
quite a bit of a dip just in before down to about 42 frames per second
now i haven't tweaked any of the settings it's the opengl render it's all the default settings here
okay so i didn't bother to change any of that super mario sunshine so this is a reasonably
demanding game and we're getting around 30 frames per second now i've seen some pretty
bad frame dips uh where it goes down to about 25 for a split second you get quite a bit of lag but
here in town with all the npcs around and whatnot you can see this is actually looking pretty good
not bad performance here and this is definitely the best that i've seen this game run
so really great emulation performance there especially from the playstation 2
emulator that one is such an improvement from what i remember when i tested it previously with
the tab s7 plus with the new chipset running a lot better and of course the new version of daemon ps2
that game that i tested out which is coliseum road to rome was normally before super slow the
gameplay the game speed is now at a normal kind of speed and it's running really fast and then the
psp performance great perfect n64 looking really good as you saw there with mario 64. gamecube as
well great and dreamcast not a problem so it is an absolute emulation beast to this particular tablet
that super immersive 14.6 inch super amoled screen is such a joy to game on and as long
as you're gaming of course with a controller get yourself a stand or using it in the keyboard case
it's going to be a great experience there with emulation so thank you so much for watching this
video make sure you do catch my two other videos so far on this particular tab s8 ultra that is my
first impressions video and i do a stress test to see how much it does the snapdragon 8 gen
1 throttle in this tablet that's with 3d mark extreme stress test and 2 2 and genshin impact
gameplay so do check that out and subscribe for more and i'll see you in the next one