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Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Makes me wonder what age of PC modern phones compare to. Shame that it's often a pain to get Linux on them

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Depends on what you're going for. But the a19 pro in the iPhone 17 is a legit beast compared to a few gen old laptop.

    https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/18267048?baseline=18268036

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'd say about now, maybe just a few years behind. Phones come with 16gb of ram l, which is the most common config on steam. There are native ports on iOS. You can play resident evil 8 natively on an iPhone, you can emulate Cyberpunk 2077 on a high end Android.

    I'd venture to say that any modern game could be ported to arm with very little compromise, and as arm laptops become more common this gap will be smaller and smaller. The biggest hit for running windows games on Android is having to translate x86 calls to arm calls, an arm windows binary would only have to run through proton which in some cases runs games better than windows itself.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    With FEX, which Valve is pushing forward, I expect translating to arm explicitly isn't going to be required soon. Pretty much everything will be able to run anywhere, as long as the hardware can handle it.

    We just need the same thing for RISC-V, and then a push to that.

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