To help kick up the frame rate, ETA Prime also ran the same settings with FSR frame generation enabled, boosting Cyberpunk 2077's frame rate significantly, with highs of up to 50 FPS and dips into the low 40s. tried the Steam Deck preset, which brings some settings up to high, and surprisingly, the Android phone was able to keep up. With frame generation disabled the phone was able to achieve around 27 FPS, but with frame generation on the phone was able to hit 40-50 FPS.
According to an internal OSD, the phone had displayed CPU usage in the 60-80% range while GPU usage hovered in the 50-60% range. Despite the Red Magic 11 Pro's integrated liquid cooler, temps were sky high, reaching up to 100 °C (heat problems are something that Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 phones are notorious for). RAM usage was also high, hovering around the high 80% range. The phone comes with 16GB of LPDDR5T RAM.
ETA Prime's demonstration of Cyberpunk 2077 running on Android shows how impressive PC emulation has become in the smartphone world. If you were to try running Cyberpunk 2077 through emulation in the same way a few years ago, it would likely be impossible or at best unplayable. Undoubtedly, Valve 's contributions to PC emulation in the Android space have helped make PC emulation for AAA games viable, as the company has done in the Linux space. Valve actively sponsors some PC emulators for Android, and GameHub uses Valve's Proton compatibility layer as part of its PC emulation.
Smartphone chips continue to get faster and faster as well, which has helped accelerate AAA PC gaming through emulation, beyond just code optimization. If this progression keeps up, we could very well see smartphones just a few years down the road play Cyberpunk 2077 closer to 60 FPS comfortably—at least if the AI demand for silicon ever lets up.
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