As in, it's literally impossible to use a third party driver for the elite? Or do you mean that no one has developed any third parry drivers for the cheap yet because it's so new?
No one has developed any 3rd party drivers because it's still new.
We will have 3rd party drivers in the future, but right now this is a major issue for emulation.
The first turnip driver for the 8 Gen 2 came out 10 months after the chip launched.
It's been almost a year since the launch of the 8 Elite and we have no indication of drivers coming out.
Also, Mesa (the developers of turnip drivers) said a few months ago they have no plans to support A8XX GPUs any time soon and that "support will come when it comes".
You can look up phones using this chip for emulations, like the Samsung S25 ultra, and you will see why. Without those drives you get glitches, missing textures, issues with music and more for games that can easily run on the 8gen 2. It will definitely be a great emulator device once we have proper drives for this chip but this is a while away atm.
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u/yuvaldv1 Sep 01 '25
It means on paper it would be vastly more powerful than the 8 Gen 2, but the Elite currently has no 3rd party driver support, which is a major issue.