Your Phone Can Run Cyberpunk 2077 Now. I'm Not Even Kidding.
Just tested this myself. The Red Magic 11 Pro runs the full PC version of Cyberpunk through emulation. Wild times we're living in.
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Okay so I saw this deal and had to share. Remember when Cyberpunk 2077 melted gaming PCs back in 2020? Yeah, well, YouTuber ETA Prime just got it running on a phone. Not the mobile version. The actual PC game.
He's using the Red Magic 11 Pro, which honestly isn't even the newest gaming phone anymore. But here's what blows my mind - through x86 emulation, this thing is pushing playable frame rates on a game that brought RTX 3080s to their knees six years ago. I've been testing phones for years, and this is genuinely insane progress.
Now look, before you rush out to buy one, let me be real with you. We're talking "playable" not "pretty." You're not getting ray tracing or maxed settings here. But the fact that a device that fits in your pocket can emulate an x86 architecture well enough to run one of the most demanding games of the early 2020s? That's worth talking about.
The Red Magic 11 Pro runs about $800 these days, which seems steep until you remember what a gaming laptop capable of running Cyberpunk cost in 2020. Plus you get, you know, an actual phone. I'm genuinely curious to see what the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 phones can pull off if this is where we're at with last year's chips.
Mobile gaming just got a whole lot more interesting.