The New Galaxy S23 Ultra Is Also Powerful Desktop PC! DEX Mode Is Amazing

Samsung Dex: A Viable Option for Gaming and Productivity

As I've been playing around with my new Galaxy S23 Ultra, I wanted to show off one of its most impressive features - Samsung Dex. Dex is a mode that allows you to use your phone as a PC-like device on a larger screen. We can kind of scale this on the window if we want to or we could go full screen it also has full support for like an Xbox controller and I've got one connected over Bluetooth right now.

With the S23 Ultra, you can Max this game out even in Samsung Dex mode actually one question I usually get here is you know the performance degradation from the regular Android mode to skim song decks and in the past I've actually done a video running benchmarks on both there was no noticeable difference in fact in one Benchmark we actually got a little bit of higher CPU score using Samsung Dex now if I were to run that same Benchmark a couple times in both we could have beat it out you know in Android mode versus Dex but it was still pretty impressive to see so there's really no performance degradation going over to a big screen like this.

Minecraft has always given me issues trying to scale it up in decks so we don't have that top bar with this one and no matter what I do I just can't go full screen with it but we can kind of scale the window itself to go as large as we want on the main screen here which does give us plenty of play room but it would be nice to kind of go total full screen I'm not sure if this is ever going to be resolved and it's actually been like this for a few years so I think this is how it's going to be another type of gaming that works out really well with Dex is cloud gaming be it GeForce now or one of my favorites Xbox cloud gaming or Game Pass right now I'm using the built-in Wi-Fi the Galaxy s23 Ultra but this Monitor and a lot of adapters out there that you're going to pick up to use decks with will have ethernet and when you're cloud gaming being wired it's just gonna make it a much better experience.

But even with Wi-Fi 6 and a decent connection you can play your favorite games here next up I wanted to show off a little bit of emulation here so we've got some PSPs and PPSSPP with Tekken 6 we're at 5x resolution using the Vulcan back in so we're scaled up close to that 1440p resolution and it really does look great on these larger displays another one that functions really well is es2 so we've got ether sx2 Gran Turismo 4 we're at 2x resolution and it really does make a difference going from the built-in screen here to a larger one I could probably upscale this a bit more I think we could handle 3x here with Gran Turismo 4 but I'm just sitting at two using the opengl back in and PS2 emulation on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is absolutely amazing.

So yeah I really do think that Samsung Dex is a very viable option for people who just already use their phone as their main PC this is going to work out in the Galaxy s23 the s23 Plus or the ultra you don't need to go super expensive with the ultra to get Samsung Dax the less expensive s23s are going to handle it just as well as the ultra does but keep in mind if you've already got like a Galaxy S9 sitting in a drawer somewhere you might have upgraded that also supports Samsung Dex and you can actually get a lot done even though it's working with an older CPU one of my favorite devices to use that I usually just have set up with Samsung Dex is the Galaxy s10e it was a cheaper one that I picked up on eBay it was a used device so I've actually had a blast using Samsung Dex on that for gaming emulation and even work but if you're not into decks remember this will support mirror mode I'm not a huge fan of it because we got those black bars on the top and bottom it just doesn't scale up correctly given the aspect ratio of the built-in phone screen.

But that's all for today's video really appreciate watching ever since this device released I've had a lot of people asking about Samsung decks so I figured I'd go ahead and show it off and yeah I mean given it's the newest Samsung Galaxy device on the market this is the best experience that I've had with Samsung Dex so far and it's kind of a given with the CPU we have here that Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is no joke it's a great arm SOC but you can always go with the lower end device and use this same setup it's got to be an S-Series Galaxy device from the S9 on up if you're interested in picking up anything that you saw in this video I'll leave some links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on the s23 ultra just let me know down below but that's it for this one.