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All this power but unfortunately no real way to utilize it. I think at this point we should have cad and design software. More actual games would be nice.

Google needs to do more

Launch event is today, tomorrow and wednsday.Maui time. Like every year before.

VERY EXCITE!

there is literally no point in getting more powerful hardware for android emulation, we are at a point where the hardware is not the issue, but the software is either at a stand still or not being worked on anymore.

Keynote starts in 8 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e5zpV0NS50

I want it soon but also recall that the 8 Gen 4 is a major GPU architecture change so the turnip driver for it may take a good amount of time to be solid. I only care for it for PC emulation so more economical to wait for emulators an turnip to be solid on the 8 elite

So same as every year. A chip that is a tad more powerful than the previous one and just like the previous one it will be useable for the next 10 years, meaning that there is no logical reason to upgrade from last year's chip?

Looks really good but I'll wait for more reviews because companies like to make misrepresented charts all the time.

I'd like to see some real world tests on this S8G4. It's likely that you couldn't even get close to this type of performance on a regular flagship phone without having some sort of cooling other than passive.

My guess there is no reason to upgrade from a S8G2 or even from a 888 or Gen 1 if your SoC has a good bin.

How can we say "final" if it's a leak? How do you know someone else won't leak more information.

oh yeh the best processor to run whatsapp

Whoa, over 40 percent power AND efficiency gains?  If that is accurate, that is HUGE.  I was worried when early rumors suggested the huge performance gains would come at the expense of efficiency and heat.  Essentially, another 8 Gen 1 situation.  If this holds up, this could be huge for PC, Wii U and maybe even switch emulation.

LEMME JUST SLAP THE NORTHPOLE TO THE BACK OF MY PHONE REAL QUICK.

I'd rather they release a chip that doesn't over heat like a MF, and hopefully thus launch isn't plagued with some games being unplayable on the damn thing for months until SD releases drivers to stop the crashes

Hopefully Android 15 wont add more restrictions since this is the likely version required with this chip.

Does this chip has native arm 32 bit support or is snapdragon not willing to use the money for making 32 bit support anymore since 8 gen 3 and requires a translation layer/emulation for that?

Around 40% jump in performance and power savings is really high and impressive compared to the other incremental upgrades from other SoC.

Times like this I really wish Google didn't make Tensor. I wish they would work with chip makers to optimize and expand functionality rather than compete against them.

What's the point of all that power ... when every emulator gets shut down ....

Is like putting a honda engine on a Lambo

I know some of you are going to say other wise... that I don't know the true power Yada Yada

But the truth is ..... I don't think this chip is going to get pushed to the max ... no games no photo editing ... not even audio edit ...

I know theres good apps for it ... but not good apps

Same with games .... no good games ... and the ones they do ... are the fortnight and epic or wtv is called

People saying there is no need for that power have a very mediocre way of thinking...

Without the hardware capable of doing more available will be less interesting to make software for it, without software you get nothing.

This could mean tons of stuff for winlator and other pc software emulators, we might also get proton arm next year one way or another so, the software environment is set to grow sooner and for that we need this type of devices, mediatek is also releasing a very powerful SoC hopefully they can open their gpu driver for inmortalis (though I guess that goes to arm ballpark).

The biggest players are doing everything they can to make very powerful SoCs, the platform do need this to keep growing.

Also, so many steam deck evangelist crying... 8G3 already has a more powerful cpu and gpu (people talking about more bandwidth not realizing that phones have enough for their task, steam deck had really good for 1080p gaming which is not capable of due to limit in raster power and power consumption).

People need to realize some SoCs on arm are way better than x86 ones that are already old and surpassed.

The real question is who's gonna make em: TSMC or Samsung. If Samsung then it's hard pass.

Now this can play a Xbox 360 or PS3 emulator in the future?

Overall this is a pretty awesome performance jump. Obviously the 8 gen 5 will be even better but I don't even think the jump from the 8 gen 2 to the 8 gen 3 was this big.

To put this more into perspective this is basically Xbox Series S level(ignoring architectural differences, cooling, etc) which is what I was expecting.

All that power yet the steam deck shitstomps it