While we already got Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 benchmark tests from Qualcomm’s showcase reference board gear, it’s another thing to witness the real-world performance of flagship Android phone processor for 2022 on a retail device. Said device is none other than the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra (known as Edge X30 in China), the first phone announced with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset in it.
It remains to be seen if such unstable gaming performance will be a staple for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 phones, or if it is simply a case of Motorola rushing the Edge 30 Ultra out of the door to shout “first,” and deciding they will bother with software and hardware optimizations in subsequent updates.