I saw they mentioned towards the end that Call of Duty will be available on RTX Spark in 2027, so I'm hoping that applies to us as well and in general just expands the type of games we can play.
Here is a video of Ubuntu on the A16. I show YouTube, Minecraft, Civilization 6, Cyberpunk and Total Annihilation working. 3/4 Games are playable. Cyberpunk runs, but frame rates are terrible. It doesn't look like GPU is being hit by any of the games yet, and I don't have CPU boost working. I'm hoping it inspires someone smarter than me to get it all working as it should. This was just an experiment, but I'm using it as my daily driver now. There are a lot of little gotchas, but I'm sure that they will be fixed in upcoming official releases.
Got it during the sale. Tried to vibecode a clean UI personal AI agent. looks good but Oof In function. Want to use that 48gb of fast ram but my brain just isn’t clicking. what are you guys running? I’m not a programmer by any means. CLI intimidates me.
With the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 generation coming in, I'm honestly more interested in the emulation side than the benchmark numbers.
The really interesting part is Qualcomm apparently starting to take PC game translation on Android more seriously, including work on official GPU drivers.
If Qualcomm actually delivers good driver support, do you think this could be the generation where Android PC emulation becomes significantly more consistent?
I'm wondering about the bigger picture:
Switch emulation
PS3 emulation
Winlator / PC games
Driver compatibility
Sustained performance and thermals
We've already seen Snapdragon chips become ridiculously capable for emulation. If the driver situation improves alongside the hardware, how far do you think these phones can realistically go?
What would be the first emulator/game you'd test on an 8 Elite Gen 6 device?
Since RTX-Spark has been released, and first batch of laptop with RTX-Spark inside is going to be released this month. Snapdragon x2 elite extreme is not yet the best performance for ARM chip, but will they try to be the best value of ARM chip? especially black friday is coming. It is certainly the good time to run some promotions.