Snapdragon 8 Elite Is Shown To Push A Framerate Of 160FPS When Running Red Dead Redemption, But Visual Settings Were Not Mentioned

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The 2010 action-adventure game from Rockstar, Red Dead Redemption, recently launched for the PC, and given that the title is several years old, modern-day hardware should have no trouble running, as it was even showcased that an RTX 4070 has zero problems pushing a healthy framerate at the 8K resolution. This also means that the Snapdragon 8 Elite can achieve some phenomenal results when playing Red Dead Redemption, as it is revealed to be running at 160FPS.

Graphics settings were not mentioned, but Red Dead Redemption may have been running at the 720p resolution

An image was shared by X user @4k_isn, showing an unnamed Snapdragon 8 Elite flagship running Red Dead Redemption, with the framerate counter showing 161.7FPS. A snapshot of the gameplay footage was taken from Chinese video uploading platform bilibili, but it would have been better to have named the person or the channel that was recording the video. Regardless, it should be noted that Red Dead Redemption cannot run natively on Android, so there is emulation going on, which leaves some performance on the table.

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Thankfully, even that limitation is not sufficient to hold the Snapdragon 8 Elite back, as evidenced by the framerate counter. Of course, the more important question would be to ask what visual settings Red Dead Redemption is running at. Unfortunately, those details are kept in the dark, but the X user speculates that the Snapdragon 8 Elite is pushing that framerate at the 720p resolution, which is not an outstanding feat if you are using a new or even a relatively old NVIDIA or AMD GPU.

However, there was a time when it was impossible for smartphone chipsets to be able to run AAA games, natively or through emulation, and the Snapdragon 8 Elite is proof of how far the silicon industry has advanced. It is also important to remember that