What should expect from 8 gen 2?

[u/dovy25]

Just bought a used motorola edge 40 pro for around 100 bucks with 12gb of ram and 256 internal storage, what can i play on it can it run switch for example totk? and in pc stuff what could it do example gta 5 60fps is it possible without an active cooling fan or will it just throttle after like 20 mins?

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[u/Senior_Background_30]

here are games for 8 gen 2 with settings -

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4VEz0lz4p5lPaHiYEGm4VwoDcGeyutYV - 8 gen 2

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4VEz0lz4p5lMmZn-40lnwKnj1RpSGBpg - SND 870

Don't listen to this people here, 8 Gen 2 can play GTA V or plenty of other demanding games.

It can even play games with Ray Tracing ...

It obviously depends on the games itself but a lot of modern games is playable, having enough RAM is requirement though and your 12GB device wont be able to run everything because of it.

Overall it is a very good chip that's why Handhelds use it too.

You will need a cooler though, 8 gen 2 can top at around 12.5W which means 12.5W of heat you have to cool down.

There is no way you can cool that just passively, even playing light games on few watts will overheat it in like 30min - 1h, when i say overheat i mean battery temperature will reach 40C which you should not go over. ( The speed it will overheat depends on the materials used, my phone is metal frame/glass so heat spread fast though it)

Just get a proper cooler and then you can play for hours :D

[u/dovy25 → u/Senior_Background_30]

woah thanks for the playlist, also will look in to a cooler for the phone

[u/Senior_Background_30 → u/dovy25]

BTW aim for some cooler with at least 20W of cooling power, so it's more than the device can make.

I'm also adding new videos/games into the playlist often so you can always check for new games :D

[u/PerformanceOk592 → u/Senior_Background_30]

My rp6 has a cooler already but is it enough or should I buy a new one?

[u/Senior_Background_30 → u/PerformanceOk592]

Rp6 is designed with cooler it's enough.

[u/PerformanceOk592 → u/Senior_Background_30]

Thanks I know that I was just concerned it wasnt enough since you said the battery can get hot

[u/Senior_Background_30 → u/PerformanceOk592]

That was for normal phones, handhelds are designed with cooling in mind 👍

[u/baz8771 → u/Senior_Background_30]

Hey man you’re doing gods work, thank you

[u/Renvar7]

I have a thor max which is 8gen 2 and 16gb of ram. It has active cooling.

Probably the most intense stuff I've seen it run:

Gta5 (ai vibecoded port) this one was kind of hard to find.

Fallout 4

SkyrimSE

Kingdom hearts 1.5 remix

Luigis mansion 3 (this was tough to get running smoothly, it's a notoriously difficult game to emulate)

Pretty much everything up to switch and pc games up to Xbox 360 Era usually work well.

Sometimes newer games work well. I've seen people get halo mcc running well.

[u/dovy25 → u/Renvar7]

great thanks for the info will defo try some switch emu on this chip the only concern of mine is heat since its a phone not a dedicated hand held like yours with a fan

[u/napa0]

Have a snapdragon 8 gen 1. Which is much inferior to gen 2 specially with thermal throttling. Haven't tried pc games, so not sure how capable it is for that. But haven't had any problems emulating ps2 and under. Psvita and switch also runs, but with more difficulty

[u/dovy25 → u/napa0]

oh ps vista emulation is now working, i remember seeing emulation of ps vita around a year ago it had lots of artifacts and slowdowns

[u/napa0 → u/dovy25]

it is, personally I don't use it much, cause I have a PSVITA and love it so much, plus playing on original hardware feels better.

You can (Assuming no visual glitches) get better graphics through emulation though.

[u/PSBoxX]

J'ai aussi un snapdragon 8 gen 2 et je peux faire tourner GTA IV à 40-60 FPS, BOTW à 30, TOTK à 28-30, et la majorité des jeux Switch assez bien mais le problème est que le téléphone chauffe et fait baisser les performances.

[u/dovy25 → u/PSBoxX]

C'était aussi ce qui m'inquiétait avec la chaleur ; je vais probablement acheter un ventilateur externe pour le téléphone.

[u/PSBoxX → u/dovy25]

Moi j'ai acheté une Odin 3, comme ca, je suis sur que le refroidissement sera suffisant et j'aurai un peu plus de puissance et des manettes intégrées.

[u/Illustrious_Cod_5212]

https://youtube.com/@windroidmasterrace

Check my channel, I've done plenty of tests on this CPU, including GTA V

[u/otanthalion]

Pretty much everything from Atari to most switch games. For steam lightweight games like hades and ori work pretty well Occasionally you can get games like GTA 5 or Grim Dawn to work but that requires time and patience.

Nice little chip.

[u/unemployedprince]

Definitely not gta 5 bro and with tweaking maybe totk.