Summary
DROIX blog review of the ayaneo-pocket-air. Published 2023-12-06 on droix.net.
FPS / Gaming Performance
- For the Dolphin emulator there is overall good performance. We tried a bunch of games on both of the systems the emulator supports. Now and again there were some dips below 30 or 60 FPS but nothing that spoiled the games too much. This applies for both systems the emulator supports.
- The PlayStation emulator PPSSPP runs amazingly well. We are upscaling up to 1080P and have various graphics improvements enabled along with 16x Anisotropic filtering. We got a rock solid 60 FPS on God of War with the AYANEO Pocket AIR so that’s good enough for us.
- The Vita emulator looks like it works well. We got mostly 60 FPS with a few minor drops below on our go to game Street Fighter vs Tekken. We haven’t tried a massive number of games on this emulator as compatibility is not amazing, but the ones that did work all were very playable on the AYANEO Pocket AIR.
Emulation Notes
- Dolphin emulator on AYA NEO Pocket AIR
- For the Dolphin emulator there is overall good performance. We tried a bunch of games on both of the systems the emulator supports. Now and again there were some dips below 30 or 60 FPS but nothing that spoiled the games too much. This applies for both systems the emulator supports.
- PPSSPP on AYA NEO Pocket AIR
- The PlayStation emulator PPSSPP runs amazingly well. We are upscaling up to 1080P and have various graphics improvements enabled along with 16x Anisotropic filtering. We got a rock solid 60 FPS on God of War with the AYANEO Pocket AIR so that’s good enough for us.
- For the Citra emulator on Sonic Generations we do see the usual shader caching slowdowns we come to expect. The performance is vastly improved when there is no shader caching, or lowering the rendering resolution. For other less demanding games, the experience is far smoother with fairly solid frame rates.
- AetherSX2 on AYANEO Pocket Air
- With AetherSX2 we see mixed performance. With my personal goto game Outrun we see overall good frame rates with some dips now and again when the disc is being accessed. With Gran Turismo 3 we see regular frame drops below 60, but you can speed things up a bit by lowering the rendering resolution if you wanted to.
- For Yuzu we are getting around half the performance we need for full speed on Crusin Blast. Lower demanding games will work better. For most first party titles you won’t have much luck on them being playable.
- AYA NEO Pocket AIR running RetroArch PC Engine
Source
Full review available at: https://droix.net/blogs/aya-neo-pocket-air-review-with-video/