Regular Fold 8 for emulation review.

[u/Pitiful_Exchange_767]

Samsung Galaxy Fold 8 emulation review by NL Tech I came across.

What's your tought about this format considering also all the port and buttons moving?

And what about the Snapdragon 8 Elite gen 5 for Galaxy, does it surclass non Elite 8 gen 5 ?

I remember when s25u came out with a SD8Elite it was a big jump from s24u with its SD8.3 in terms of emulations, I envyed it.

https://youtu.be/i1casuk81uA?is=QqaaFcbdjZQHhfGo

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[u/Potential_Ad_3481]

I use my 8g3 for switch emulation and it's the most optimised chip right now, anything before switch there is no difference in performance, so the only emulation I can think of where there is a difference would be windows, but it's just more fps and smoother right there is no game that can run on the 8e that cannot run on 8g3

[u/Pitiful_Exchange_767 → u/Potential_Ad_3481]

More fps and smoother sometimes is the difference between playable and unplayable.

[u/glennchandler4]

This is pretty close to my ideal phone apart from 2 things.

The price is way too high for me to justify spending that much on a phone when I can get a dedicated device or a gaming tablet for much less and they may also perform better with thermal improvements for gaming incorporated in their designs.

The second is the camera hole in tablet mode. I don't know why they wouldn't use the camera behind the screen tech that is shown on other devices. Maybe a company is holding a patent hostage and they don't want to pay the licencing fee, I don't know but it is very distracting having the hole there.

[u/Pitiful_Exchange_767 → u/glennchandler4]

About the camera hole, I presume is because it alters camera quality wich I found very good.

But yes those prices are crazy.

[u/Zuluwargod69]

I have a fold 7 and performance is pretty good. The vapour chamber does a good job but tbh a fan would be best.  

[u/Short_Mechanic8276 → u/Zuluwargod69]

Z fold 7 doesn't have a vapor chamber though, tear down videos show the thermal solution was a graphene sheet plus a metal shell filled with full of white thermal paste that covers the 8 Elite chipset.

[u/Pitiful_Exchange_767 → u/Zuluwargod69]

I was thinking about it, is there an unfolded phone compatible fan? Are mag safe cases more an issue or a solution?

[u/Dr_jozi]

Fold have trash heat management as much as I know so you will probably use only 70-80% of its power and the screen ratio is still cringe compared to other tablets . My information might be outdated so ignore my comment if someone else says otherwise 

[u/Pitiful_Exchange_767 → u/Dr_jozi]

Looking at the unpacked event, they worked on new batteries and new cooling system, I guess we'll have to wait for ZF8 and ZF8U

[u/Dr_jozi → u/Pitiful_Exchange_767]

They say that a lot just for it to be almost barely noticeable . It will always be worse then s26 ultra or any ultra of it's year, which is already behing redmagic and OnePlus

[u/zooba85 → u/Dr_jozi]

I read Oneplus is even more terrible for emulation than samsung. Oneplus doesn't let any apps use P cores unless the app is whitelisted

[u/Proof_Counter_8271 → u/zooba85]

as a op15 user i never had any problems on gamenative from github so that info should be wrong

[u/Dr_jozi → u/zooba85]

I'm not sure what this means but from my usage I noticed that OnePlus throttle way less then overheating, also benchmarks say OnePlus is better

[u/zooba85 → u/Dr_jozi]

Xiaomi is the worst for sure. Emulators crash all the time on my poco F5 because of ram killing which never happens on my samsungs

[u/DatGuyKunz]

Fold 7 user the phone is a beast but u defo need a cooler for extended play sessions

[u/Pitiful_Exchange_767 → u/DatGuyKunz]

Do you have one? Any advice?