GameHub update promises improved Windows game emulation on non-Snapdragon Android phones

While Winlator stands as one of the better-known Windows game emulators on Android, GameHub is also getting popular among mobile gamers. It's from GameSir, and the company has recently pushed a major update to the PC game emulator. The updated version is said to boost emulation performance on non-Snapdragon phones.

Of course, not all the non-Snapdragon phones appear to be targeted with this update. Instead, GameSir specifically mentions that users with phones that features Dimensity 9000 to 9400 processors will benefit the most. As for how good the PC game emulation performance will be with the updated GameHub, the company says that it will be "comparable" to flagship phones with a Qualcomm Adreno GPU.

In some cases, the flagship MediaTek phones are said to "even surpass" the Windows game emulation performance of comparable Snapdragon devices. GameSir says that the GameHub team was able to pull this off by going deep into the technical challenges that Mali GPUs tend to have. For example, they are often regarded as having an "unsatisfactory Vulkan implementation."

The team has also looked into issues like "unstable" shader compilers and "unoptimized" resource scheduling. GameSir further notes that the team has made runtime optimizations in cases where the driver functionality wasn't quite up to the mark.

What's more interesting is that GameSir has promised that the GameHub team will work with MediaTek to offer custom Mali GPU drivers. If these can deliver the same level of optimization as the Adreno Turnip drivers, it will be great news for PC game emulation on Android (GameSir G8 Plus mobile controller curr. $79.99 on Amazon).