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Retroid Pocket 4 PRO Review with video – Excellent price vs performance Android handheld (DROIX Blog)

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Summary

DROIX blog review of the retroid-pocket-4-pro. Published 2024-01-19 on droix.net.

FPS / Gaming Performance

  • Overall we see decent performance with AetherSX2. Gran Turismo 3 works very well at 60 FPS with some minor drops now and again.
  • Our go to game OutRun Coast to Coast did see regular frame drops to the 40 FPS area. You can lower the rendering resolution a little to fix this. But overall many games run great on the emulator.
  • We tried a brand new release and also got decent performance, it does drop down to as low as 30 FPS but for the most part the game is very playable. Not all games will work as well, first party titles are not very playable.

Emulation Notes

  • The performance on the Dolphin emulator struggled on many of the lower end handhelds.  But we can safely say that performance for both systems the emulator supports is very good.
  • The Dolphin emulator works perfect
  • Overall we see decent performance with AetherSX2. Gran Turismo 3 works very well at 60 FPS with some minor drops now and again.
  • AetherSX2 emulator on the Retroid Pocket 4 PRO
  • Citra emulator on the Retroid Pocket 4 PRO
  • The Citra emulator works very well. There are still some occasional drops in performance when shader coaching, but these are more far and few between compared to lower performing vintage gaming handhelds. Overall games are more playable the first time round, still not quite perfect but not far off.
  • The Vita3K emulator works extremely well on the Pocket 4 PRO. We tried Street Fighter X Tekken and apart from some occasional shader cache lags the game was very playable.
  • Yuzu works surprisingly well. Our go to game Cruis’n Blast is mostly playable with some lags now and again. Once the shader cache lag stops you get some very good speeds.
  • Yuzu emulator on the Retroid Pocket 4 PRO
  • Yuzu running a latest game fairly well
  • The Dimensity 1100 processor has impressed me a great deal. We see excellent performance with the higher end emulators that other handhelds even struggle to run let alone be playable. Dolphin and Vita3K were great, PS2 was mostly good. But Yuzu really surprised us on performance, there’s a good number of actually playable games, but don’t expect miracles.

Source

Full review available at: https://droix.net/blogs/retroid-pocket-4-pro-review-with-video/

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