Snapdragon 8 Elite Can Easily Push 60FPS In Cyberpunk 2077, But On The ‘Low’ Settings Present; Small Gameplay Clip Shows No Ray Tracing Enabled

The absence of native AAA games on Android is rather disappointing because the Snapdragon 8 Elite is an excellent example of how the hardware is more than ready to bring a quality experience to smaller devices, and it is just a matter of convincing developers to make the required effort. After all, running Cyberpunk 2077, even on the low settings, is no small feat, and a new video shows that a stable 60FPS can be achieved when running the visually incredible title.

Cyberpunk 2077 managed 60FPS as the Snapdragon 8 Elite device was running the game at 720p; smaller screens will not impact details greatly

A gameplay video that is just over a minute long was shared by @cozy_OSS, revealing that Cyperpunk 2077 can maintain a 60FPS framerate with the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The framerate counter is visible, and what is impressive about this performance run is that there are no dropped frames, and the gameplay footage shows a combat sequence, which is typically more taxing on the hardware. Then again, the Snapdragon 8 Elite was previously shown to be faster than the AMD Radeon 780M running in the ASUS ROG Ally in 3DMark Steel Nomad Light, so we would expect the chipset to deliver some notable performance in Cyberpunk 2077.

However, to achieve a 60FPS framerate target, the visual settings preset had to be set to low, with the resolution being 1,280 x 720. While some might argue that the rendered resolution is on the lower side, smaller screens will typically not display the same visual quality degradation because the pixels are spaced very closely with one…