Geekom A8 Review – AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS mini PC for work and gaming (DROIX Blog)

Summary

DROIX blog review of the geekom-a8. Published 2024-06-25 on droix.net.

There are a few different combinations of graphics settings you can play. I went with 720P Medium graphics settings. I limited it to 30 FPS and enabled AMD FSR 2.2 Balanced to provide a solid 30+ FPS even in busier scenes.
I decided on 720P on the Low graphics settings and limited to 30 frames per second. Normally you can go a bit higher but I think the graphics driver version I was using had some issues with this game.
I went with 720P on Medium graphics settings and limited to 30 frames per second. You could lower the graphics settings and increase to 60, but there is a noticeable difference in graphics quality between Low and Medium I think is worth staying at Medium for.

We know from the 8840U based handheld that we saw excellent performance for emulation right up to more recent generations. All of your 8-bit up to PS2 era are going to work perfectly. In most cases, if the emulator supports it, you can increase the internal rendering from the original console’s resolution up to 1080P and even 4K. In addition you can add a variety of graphics tweaks to improve the visuals to really make them look amazing! Lets see how some of the more demanding systems stand up in our Geekom A8 review.
PCSX2 on the Geekom A8
RPCS3 PS3 Emulator with Wipeout HD
Ryujinx with Crusin Blast
For PS2 you can increase the rendering to 1080P with 16x Anisotropic Filtering and all games will work great. For less demanding games, you can increase to 4K if you wanted to. For PS3 we tried a bunch of different games, and apart from some occasional shader caching lags, the compatible games all worked amazingly well!
Moving on to the handheld emulator Ryujinx, we see near perfect gameplay for lesser demanding games and third party titles. You won’t have so much luck with high demanding games or first party titles though. You will need an eGPU to get these to a playable state. The same for the Xbox 360 emulator Xenia, low demanding games work great, high demanding games will have lower performance.