Snapdragon 8 Elite vs 8 Gen 2 vs 865 (Switch)

Ryan Retro September 10, 2025
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Hello everyone, in this video I am testing the Snapdragon 8 Elite against the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and the Snapdragon 865. I'm using an experimental build of Eden which isn't very stable but should give the Elite the best chance of any emulator so far. I'm using the Retroid Pocket 5 as the Snapdragon 865 device, the Odin 2 Portal as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 device and the Samsung Fold 7 as the Snapdragon 8 Elite device. If I were to do this again I'd use a more stable release for the 865 and 8 Gen 2 so we can see the best they can get. I also want to apologize for the changing light conditions throughout the video - I filmed it during sunset in front of a big window. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💾 Resources: Snapdragon 8 Elite test spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NlnVPZgZY95MtEmYMdr_amOhVmhF4wGu5_QBrxNnmLo/edit?gid=0#gid=0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎮 Buy the Android handhelds I used in this video (affiliate links ❤️): 🎮 Retroid Pocket 5: https://www.goretroid.com/products/retroid-pocket-5-handheld?sca_ref=7339476.fIz7oKv7uT 🎮 Odin 2 Portal: https://www.ayntec.com/products/odin2-portal?sca_ref=8254425.fM33Fgl5td ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧡 Support me https://www.patreon.com/c/RyanRetro https://ko-fi.com/ryanretro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ My website: www.ryanretro.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰ Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:40 Disclaimer 00:01:21 Handheld differences 00:03:16 Scoring system rules 00:03:44 A Short Hike 00:04:08 Alba 00:05:08 Animal Crossing New Horizons 00:05:57 Assassins Creed IV Black Flag 00:06:52 Deponia 00:07:45 Dark Souls Remastered 00:09:10 Disco Elysium The Final Cut 00:10:02 Dragon Ball FighterZ 00:11:03 Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 00:12:07 Dragon Quest III HD 2D Remake 00:12:41 Dragon Quest XI S Echoes of an Elusive Age 00:15:14 EA Sports FC 25 00:15:20 Fantasy Life i The Girl Who Steals Time 00:15:47 Fifa 18 00:16:57 Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age 00:17:39 GRIS 00:17:56 Hades 00:18:59 Littlewood 00:19:24 Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games 00:20:09 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 00:21:41 Metroid Prime Remastered 00:22:11 Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom 00:22:46 Monster Hunter Rise 00:23:10 Monster Hunter Stories 00:24:14 Moonstone Island 00:24:39 My Time At Sandrock 00:25:23 Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered 00:26:21 New Pokemon Snap 00:27:23 Ni No Kuni Wrath of the White Witch 00:28:13 Nickelodeon Kart Racers 00:29:25 Octopath Traveler II 00:30:07 Persona 5 Royal 00:31:12 Pokemon Legends Arceus 00:32:10 Pokemon Scarlett 00:33:16 Pokemon Shield 00:34:05 Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu 00:34:39 Portal 2 00:35:00 Red Dead Redemption 00:35:33 Rune Factory 5 00:36:33 Slay The Spire 00:36:50 Spiritfarer 00:37:33 Stray 00:38:27 Super Mario 3D All Stars 00:38:48 Super Mario Odyssey 00:39:54 Super Smash Bros Ultimate 00:40:56 Tenns In The Face 00:41:04 The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 00:41:42 The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening 00:42:15 The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword HD 00:42:38 The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom 00:43:21 The Witcher 3 00:44:06 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 00:44:14 Final scores

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