Poco F8 Ultra: Will the stress test failure put the brakes on gaming?
With the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and the integrated Adreno 840, the Xiaomi Poco F8 Ultra has access to the most powerful Android SoC currently available. It stands to reason that the smartphone is also ideal for gaming, not least because of its large 6.9-inch AMOLED display and the excellent 2.1 sound system from Bose. Poco has also equipped the F8 Ultra with a dedicated VisionBoost D8 chipset, which is designed to further optimise gaming performance.
In the stress test, the Ultra not only showed high surface temperatures, rising to 49.8 °C in places, but almost all 3DMark stress tests were terminated prematurely due to the risk of overheating. All the more reason to check how the Xiaomi phone performs when gaming in everyday use.
For this, we use the graphically demanding Genshin Impact, which allows a refresh rate of up to 60 FPS in the settings on Android. We set the quality to maximum throughout, and the same applies to the possible FPS.
| Genshin Impact | |||
| Settings | Value | ||
| highest 120 fps | 40.3 fps | ||
| highest 120 fps | 40.4 fps | ||
We were somewhat surprised that GameBench was unable to detect more than 40 FPS at any point. However, these are absolutely stable, even with super resolution enabled (green). The Poco F8 Ultra's gaming manager (Game Turbo) would have us believe that the game is running at 120 FPS.
In super resolution mode, we cannot detect a higher resolution as such, but more textures are actually displayed without compromising the game's performance.
The surface temperatures remain within a comfortable range throughout, and the Poco smartphone doesn't even get warm to the touch. We measured a peak value of 34.7 °C in some areas. The Poco F8 Ultra pays for this with a lower frame rate, but since this isn't an FPS shooter, it's absolutely acceptable.
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