Note 8 gaming performance

[Torm558]

Hey guys, had my note 8 for a few days now and I really love almost everything about it coming from my old 6s plus. My one main concern left that I'm trying to figure out how to improve is the gaming performance..

I travel a lot for work, away from home for a day or two at a time, so I've really gotten into mobile gaming, particularly modern combat 5. First thing I noticed playing that game on the note 8 is it's clear the frame rate is not nearly as high as compared to my 6s plus, or bogs down more in intense scenes as well. I turn on gaming mode and have the screen res down to 1080p, I have the fps limit set to 60, it's just not as fluid

I've had iPhones mostly over the years so my main experience for gaming is definitely been on my iPhone, I have a few basic android tablets that can't run much.

Is this normal for Android compared to iPhone? Are the games just not able to be optimized quite as well because it's such an open platform?

I want to love this phone and want to keep it, but I do spent a good chunk of time on my phone's for gaming while I'm stuck up in a hotel for half my life lol

 

[Torm558]

Any suggestions will do as I would love to justify keeping this but that's a big negative

 

[maj71303]

sorry but it is kinda normal for iphones to game better than android. most game makers spend more time coding for ios than ports it to android. You answered correctly on optimization as its better on ios unfortunately. The open nature of android makes it a bit impossible to be optimized the same extent.

 

[Torm558]

Well that sucks... I figured with its higher graphic scors that it would make up for that... Hmm, got some thinking to do on this. Really wanna spend $1200+ on a phone that can't play games as well as my two year old phone.

Definitely have some pros and cons to weigh in on

 

[Ca_lvn]

Enable developer options, and you can go in there and tweak the graphics

 

[Torm558]

Enable developer options, and you can go in there and tweak the graphics

Already have that enabled and didn't see any options in there that would boost the performance

 

[tekjunkie28]

Well that sucks... I figured with its higher graphic scors that it would make up for that... Hmm, got some thinking to do on this. Really wanna spend $1200+ on a phone that can't play games as well as my two year old phone.

Definitely have some pros and cons to weigh in on

Don't ever go by benchmarks. Also it's kinda easy for games to run on iOS when it's pretty straightforward what to optimize for and they only run at 1080p.