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March 23, 2019 3:27am Comment Mishaal Rahman Honor View20 Retro Gaming Review: Testing the Kirin 980 against GameCube, Wii, PSP, and Dreamcast games Part 1 of our Honor View20 gaming review focused on the View20s gaming performance in a dozen top Android games on the Play Store. As expected, the Honor View20 handled those gameseven on their highest graphical settingslike a champ. Honors View20 is a flagship smartphone with flagship hardware, so thats to be expected. Mobile game developers cant make games that are only playable on a handful of devices or they would run out of business. Although some of the games we tested did push the Honor View20s Kirin 980 a bit, none of them really made the smartphone slow to a crawl. Emulating consoles and handhelds like the Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS, or PlayStation 1 is something that most Android smartphones can handle with ease. The Sega Dreamcast and Sony PlayStation Portable require a bit more power, but most Android devices should have no trouble with the default emulation settings for the most popular Dreamcast and PSP emulators. The consoles that the majority of Android devices struggle with are the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii. Sadly, only the highest-end Android devices will have a decent experience with GameCube and Wii emulation. The Kirin 980 certainly qualifies as high-end, but is it powerful enough to suit your retro gaming needs We tested a multitude of Dreamcast, PSP, GameCube, and Wii games on the Honor View20 to find out. Honor is also a sponsor of XDA, however Honor did not have any say in the content of this article. The reason we chose to test GameCube and Wii games is obvious. Emulating those two consoles is something that even devices with the latest Snapdragon 855 may struggle with. In our benchmarks comparing the Snapdragon 855 with the Kirin 980, the Snapdragon 855 and Kirin 980 are fairly similar in CPU performance but the Snapdragon 855 trounces the Kirin 980 in raw GPU performance. For those of you considering whether you should buy a Huawei or Honor device with the Kirin 980 or another flagship with the Snapdragon 855, we wanted to show you what kind of performance you might get if you choose the Kirin 980 device. As for why we chose to test PSP games, its because we wanted to see how much we could increase the graphical quality without degrading performance. Emulation speed is largely CPU dependent unless you want to uncap the FPS or increase the internal resolution of the console or mess with textures and shaders. Fortunately, PPSSPP (our PSP emulator of choice) has a lot of settings to toy with, so we were able to find a sweet spot that gives you much better graphics than the original PSP hardware without having to deal with frame rate drops. We were also just curious how well the device handles Dreamcast emulation so we added 5 Dreamcast games to our testing, though sadly Reicast offers few options to tune its performance. If you havent already, I recommend you read part 1 of our Honor View20 gaming review. There we talk about the gaming experience with the punch hole display, the gaming performance in 12 of the most graphically demanding Android games, our experience with the View20s memory management and storage speed, and our experience with the View20s battery life. The memory management, storage speed, and battery life are all incredibly important factors to consider when looking for a smartphone to fulfill your mobile gaming needs, but we wont be retreading old ground in this article so do check that article out if youre interested in hearing our thoughts on those topics.
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