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TL;DR
- An open-source Turnip driver for Qualcomm’s Adreno 8xx GPUs is currently in development.
- This should bring bug fixes and improved performance when playing emulators on Snapdragon 8 Elite and 8 Elite Gen 5 devices.
- It sounds like this Turnip driver could be ready as soon as early 2026.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 are two of the most powerful Android phone processors on the market. These chips can run even the most demanding games, but one issue is that they don’t play nicely with bleeding-edge emulators. Fortunately, there’s good news if you have a phone or handheld with one of these chips.
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