**Cloud Gaming and Emulation on the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 10.5**

In this article, we will explore the capabilities of the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 10.5 in cloud gaming and emulation. We have been using this device for some time now, and it has proven to be a great experience with cloud gaming.

We started by testing cloud gaming on this device, which turned out to be really good luck with cloud gaming. The device's network and so far, we've had a great experience with cloud gaming. Now that we have a solid foundation, let's move on to some emulation and see how well it performs. This isn't going to run the higher-end stuff like PS2, GameCube, or 3DS, but there might be a couple of games for each of those that you can play.

However, if we want to emulate more complex games like Dreamcast, which we see running here with Marvel vs. Capcom 2 using the Redream emulator, it's functioning fine and anything under this is going to work out really well. We want to do some NES, Neo Geo, CPS, PlayStation 1, and even PC Engine, even play PlayStation 1 games on this device. The new Tab A8 definitely has enough power for that, even in 64-bit. Here's a harder one to emulate, Conker's Bad Fur Day, which we're using the standalone version of MooPen 64+ FZ from the Google Play Store and with this, we're getting really great performance.

Even with something like GoldenEye 007, we can see that Conker's Bad Fur Day is running smoothly. Finally, for emulation testing, we have PSP using the standalone version of PPSSPP here's Tekken 6 using the Vulcan renderer at 2x resolution. This isn't the hardest one to emulate and it also isn't the easiest; I've actually had this struggle on lower-end chips so I figured I'd go ahead and test this one.

I also tested a few other easier-to-emulate games like Family Guy and Daxter, which we could play up to 3x and 4x with the Vulcan renderer in those cases but when it comes to harder-to-emulate stuff like Chains of Olympus or Ghost of Sparta, you'll have to drop it down to 1x. I was really surprised at the kind of performance we got; overall this is actually pushing through a lot better than I thought it would.

I also tried Open GL, but Vulcan does perform much better on this chip, so in the end, the new Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 10.5 performs similarly to the Amazon Fire 10 that was released in 2021. The GPU they're using in the Amazon Fire 10 does outperform this, but I mean in real-world performance, they're really right on par with each other.

Both of these tablets do support Widevine, so you'll get that HD content, and both devices have their pros and cons. The Amazon Fire runs Fire OS, and you can always install Google Play, but it doesn't give you that real Android experience like we have here now. This is skinned over with One UI 3.0, which I've always really enjoyed; personally, I use a Galaxy phone, so I'm used to it.

However, if I had to make the choice, I would probably go with the tablet that already has Google Play and Android pre-installed out of the box with this one here. We have a really snappy experience with Android 11; I love the quad speaker setup, which gets plenty loud for a little tablet like this but the screen does leave a lot to be desired.

We wish they would have used an IPS instead of TFT viewing angles are still pretty decent here but throwing an IPS in this would have made all the difference in the world. Battery life is actually pretty decent running this on loop, 50 brightness just a YouTube 1080p video we got seven hours and ten minutes out of it while gaming; if you're doing something intensive, you can probably expect around four hours.

Knowing continuous use, if you were to sit there for four hours to kill the battery, it's got 15W Quick Charging which really isn't that quick nowadays but it will get you up much faster than it would if it didn't have any kind of Quick Charging at all. For a low-end mid-range tablet, it's really not that bad.

I've seen these on sale for $199 and if you're interested in picking one up, I would go with that $199 price tag and that'll get you 32GB of internal storage and three gigabytes of RAM or you can upgrade to the more expensive model with four gigs of RAM, 64GB of storage.

**Conclusion**

If there's anything else you want to see tested on this tablet just let me know in the comments below but like always, thanks for watching.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta primepak here again with the all new 2022 samsung galaxy tab a8 10.5 i've had a bunch of viewers asking about this tablet so i figured i'd go ahead and pick one up and take a look at it and this is their newest 10.5 inch budget offering i've seen these going for 200 up to 260 depending on the storage variant and with the storage variant it's also going to change up the ram a bit they also offer a few different colors but i opted for the silver version we've got a 10.5 inch display quad speakers android 11 and we'll get into the full specs in a second but along with the tablet inside of the box you're also going to receive a user manual you'll get your usb type c charging cable and a 2 amp power supply when it comes down to it this is priced right around where the amazon fire 10 tablet is priced right now at least the plus version with 4 gigabytes of ram but instead of running fire os this is running android 11 with one ui three taking a look around the tablet this does support a micro sd card and i've personally tested a 400 gigabyte card but they claim a one terabyte will also work this tablet also has quad speakers built in and it does get really loud i've always been a big fan of these galaxy tab speakers that samsung has added so over here we've got two of our speakers on the other side we have our usb type-c port our other two speakers and they've also left the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack it also has a fingerprint sensor which doubles as our power button plus we have our volume control over here and around back we have an 8 megapixel camera so when it comes to the specs of the new tab a8 10.5 samsung opted for a totally different chip and we've actually seen this on some chinese tablets they didn't go snapdragon they didn't go mediatek they didn't even go exynos what we have here is a unisoc tiger t618 eight cores up to two gigahertz the gpu is the mali g52 mp2 you can get this in a couple different variants with three to four gigabytes of ram and 32 gigabytes of storage up to 128 we've got those quad speakers ac wi-fi bluetooth 5.1 a 10.5 inch tft display at 1200 by 1920 and it just doesn't look as good as an ips 7040 milliamp hour battery with 15 watt quick charging capabilities and is running android 11 with one ui 3. alright so here we are and overall ui performance seems really snappy i kind of figured it would be they do a lot of optimizations and this unisock soc i mean isn't a slouch it's definitely not the fastest chip on the market but it does work great for tablets especially media playback in 2021 we saw a bunch of tablets powered by the same chip and i was actually surprised to see that samsung jumped on board with this and when it comes to those tablets one of the main things they always lack is widevine support which is basically drm for hd content with the new galaxy tab a8 we do have level 1 so we can get hd content from our favorite streaming apps so we do have widevine support here and even though we don't have the highest resolution display on this unit things like netflix do work in hd and it's just a big plus when it comes to a bigger screen tablet so we've basically got the full tablet version of netflix instead of the phone version and from here we can do 1080p playback from our favorite shows and movies and when it comes to video playback this actually does a pretty decent job at 1080p we'll head over to youtube real quick and from here i've just got a 1080p 60 video stats for nerds is on screen and by the end of this we did have 12 drop frames but it's really not that bad it's something you'd never notice unless you had stats for nerds on screen so when it comes to the tab a8 for 1080p 60 playback it's gonna handle it just fine that unisock cpu does have more than enough power for video playback another thing i always like to do when testing these devices is run a couple benchmarks and first up we have geekbench 5 single core 361 multi 1227 so it's actually not looking that great we are getting a lot of prepaid 99 phones with the mediatek demincity 700 chip and it will outperform this unisock cpu the other benchmark i ran was antutu and we got a total score of 200 128. again still looking on the lower side of things we beat one percent of all other users now it's time to test out a little bit of native android gaming and with the lower end stuff you're gonna be good to go here's minecraft we're at eight chunks i do have fancy graphics off but it's perfectly playable like this and by the way i'm using an xbox one controller connected over bluetooth next on the list we have call of duty mobile i'm actually at low settings with the frame rate set to maximum but i think we're sitting around 45 fps here not bad but this game is actually really good on a lot of different devices that have tested and as you can see here it's definitely playable another thing i always like to test on these devices is cloud gaming via geforce now stadia or even game pass otherwise known as xcloud running forza ryzen 5 here from the cloud and it seems to be functioning really well we do have ac wi-fi built-in so we can pick up that 5 gigahertz network and so far i've had really good luck with cloud gaming on this device now it's time to move over to some emulation and this isn't going to run the higher end stuff ps2 gamecube even 3ds there might be a couple games for each of those that you could play but you don't go and buy one of these specifically for those emulators but when it comes to stuff like dreamcast which you see running here marvel vs capcom 2 using the redream emulator it's functioning fine and anything under this is going to work out really well you want to do some nes some neo geo cts some pc engine even playstation 1 this new tab a8 definitely has enough power for that even in 64. here's a harder one to emulate this is conker's bad fur day i'm using the standalone version of moo pen 64 plus fz from the google play store and with this i'm getting really great performance even with something like goldeneye 007 and as you can see here conker's bad fur day and finally for emulation testing we have psp using the standalone version of ppsspp here's tekken 6 using the vulcan back in at 2x resolution this isn't the hardest one to emulate and it isn't the easiest either i've actually had this struggle on lower end chip so i figured i'd go ahead and test this one i also tested a few other easier to emulate games like like family guy and daxter i could go up to 3x and 4x with the vulcan back in on those games but when it comes to the harder to emulate stuff like chains of olympus or ghost of sparta you will have to drop it down to 1x but i was really surprised at the kind of performance we got now you're still going to see some dips down from 60 but overall this is actually pushing through a lot better than i thought it would i also tried opengl but on this chip vulcan does perform much better so in the end the new samsung galaxy tab a8 10.5 performs similarly to the amazon fire 10 that was released in 2021 the gpu they're using in the amazon fire 10 does outperform this but i mean in real world performance they're really right on par with each other and both of these tablets do support widevine so you will get that hd content but the amazon fire runs fire os and you can always install google play but it doesn't give you that real android experience like we have here now i know this is skinned over with one ui 3.0 but i've always really enjoyed this i personally use a galaxy phone so i'm used to it but in the end it's really up to you if you can deal with fire os and installing google play or not even installing google play and using the amazon app store then that's totally up to you but if i had to make the choice i would probably go with the tablet that already has google play and android pre-installed out of the box with this one here we've got a really snappy experience with android 11. i love the quad speaker setup it does get plenty loud for a little tablet like this but the screen does leave a lot to be desired i really wish they would have used an ips instead of a tft viewing angles are still pretty decent here but throwing an ips in this would have made all the difference in the world battery life is actually pretty decent running this on loop 50 brightness just a youtube 1080p video i got seven hours and 10 minutes out of it while gaming if you're doing something intensive you can probably expect around four hours you know continuous use if you were to sit there for four hours to kill the battery it's got 15 watt quick charging which really isn't that quick nowadays but it will get you up much faster than it would if it didn't have any kind of quick charging at all so yeah for a low end mid-range tablet it's really not that bad i have seen these on sale for 199 and if you're interested in picking one up i would go with that 199 price tag and that'll get you 32 gigabytes of internal storage and three gigabytes of ram or you can up that with the more expensive model with four gigs of ram 64 gigabytes of storage or you could spend a little more and get 128. personally i'm fine with 4 gigs and 64 gigabytes of storage if you're interested in learning more i'm going to leave a few links in the description but that's going to wrap it up for this one i really appreciate you watching if there's anything else you want to see tested on this tablet just let me know in the comments below but like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's eta primepak here again with the all new 2022 samsung galaxy tab a8 10.5 i've had a bunch of viewers asking about this tablet so i figured i'd go ahead and pick one up and take a look at it and this is their newest 10.5 inch budget offering i've seen these going for 200 up to 260 depending on the storage variant and with the storage variant it's also going to change up the ram a bit they also offer a few different colors but i opted for the silver version we've got a 10.5 inch display quad speakers android 11 and we'll get into the full specs in a second but along with the tablet inside of the box you're also going to receive a user manual you'll get your usb type c charging cable and a 2 amp power supply when it comes down to it this is priced right around where the amazon fire 10 tablet is priced right now at least the plus version with 4 gigabytes of ram but instead of running fire os this is running android 11 with one ui three taking a look around the tablet this does support a micro sd card and i've personally tested a 400 gigabyte card but they claim a one terabyte will also work this tablet also has quad speakers built in and it does get really loud i've always been a big fan of these galaxy tab speakers that samsung has added so over here we've got two of our speakers on the other side we have our usb type-c port our other two speakers and they've also left the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack it also has a fingerprint sensor which doubles as our power button plus we have our volume control over here and around back we have an 8 megapixel camera so when it comes to the specs of the new tab a8 10.5 samsung opted for a totally different chip and we've actually seen this on some chinese tablets they didn't go snapdragon they didn't go mediatek they didn't even go exynos what we have here is a unisoc tiger t618 eight cores up to two gigahertz the gpu is the mali g52 mp2 you can get this in a couple different variants with three to four gigabytes of ram and 32 gigabytes of storage up to 128 we've got those quad speakers ac wi-fi bluetooth 5.1 a 10.5 inch tft display at 1200 by 1920 and it just doesn't look as good as an ips 7040 milliamp hour battery with 15 watt quick charging capabilities and is running android 11 with one ui 3. alright so here we are and overall ui performance seems really snappy i kind of figured it would be they do a lot of optimizations and this unisock soc i mean isn't a slouch it's definitely not the fastest chip on the market but it does work great for tablets especially media playback in 2021 we saw a bunch of tablets powered by the same chip and i was actually surprised to see that samsung jumped on board with this and when it comes to those tablets one of the main things they always lack is widevine support which is basically drm for hd content with the new galaxy tab a8 we do have level 1 so we can get hd content from our favorite streaming apps so we do have widevine support here and even though we don't have the highest resolution display on this unit things like netflix do work in hd and it's just a big plus when it comes to a bigger screen tablet so we've basically got the full tablet version of netflix instead of the phone version and from here we can do 1080p playback from our favorite shows and movies and when it comes to video playback this actually does a pretty decent job at 1080p we'll head over to youtube real quick and from here i've just got a 1080p 60 video stats for nerds is on screen and by the end of this we did have 12 drop frames but it's really not that bad it's something you'd never notice unless you had stats for nerds on screen so when it comes to the tab a8 for 1080p 60 playback it's gonna handle it just fine that unisock cpu does have more than enough power for video playback another thing i always like to do when testing these devices is run a couple benchmarks and first up we have geekbench 5 single core 361 multi 1227 so it's actually not looking that great we are getting a lot of prepaid 99 phones with the mediatek demincity 700 chip and it will outperform this unisock cpu the other benchmark i ran was antutu and we got a total score of 200 128. again still looking on the lower side of things we beat one percent of all other users now it's time to test out a little bit of native android gaming and with the lower end stuff you're gonna be good to go here's minecraft we're at eight chunks i do have fancy graphics off but it's perfectly playable like this and by the way i'm using an xbox one controller connected over bluetooth next on the list we have call of duty mobile i'm actually at low settings with the frame rate set to maximum but i think we're sitting around 45 fps here not bad but this game is actually really good on a lot of different devices that have tested and as you can see here it's definitely playable another thing i always like to test on these devices is cloud gaming via geforce now stadia or even game pass otherwise known as xcloud running forza ryzen 5 here from the cloud and it seems to be functioning really well we do have ac wi-fi built-in so we can pick up that 5 gigahertz network and so far i've had really good luck with cloud gaming on this device now it's time to move over to some emulation and this isn't going to run the higher end stuff ps2 gamecube even 3ds there might be a couple games for each of those that you could play but you don't go and buy one of these specifically for those emulators but when it comes to stuff like dreamcast which you see running here marvel vs capcom 2 using the redream emulator it's functioning fine and anything under this is going to work out really well you want to do some nes some neo geo cts some pc engine even playstation 1 this new tab a8 definitely has enough power for that even in 64. here's a harder one to emulate this is conker's bad fur day i'm using the standalone version of moo pen 64 plus fz from the google play store and with this i'm getting really great performance even with something like goldeneye 007 and as you can see here conker's bad fur day and finally for emulation testing we have psp using the standalone version of ppsspp here's tekken 6 using the vulcan back in at 2x resolution this isn't the hardest one to emulate and it isn't the easiest either i've actually had this struggle on lower end chip so i figured i'd go ahead and test this one i also tested a few other easier to emulate games like like family guy and daxter i could go up to 3x and 4x with the vulcan back in on those games but when it comes to the harder to emulate stuff like chains of olympus or ghost of sparta you will have to drop it down to 1x but i was really surprised at the kind of performance we got now you're still going to see some dips down from 60 but overall this is actually pushing through a lot better than i thought it would i also tried opengl but on this chip vulcan does perform much better so in the end the new samsung galaxy tab a8 10.5 performs similarly to the amazon fire 10 that was released in 2021 the gpu they're using in the amazon fire 10 does outperform this but i mean in real world performance they're really right on par with each other and both of these tablets do support widevine so you will get that hd content but the amazon fire runs fire os and you can always install google play but it doesn't give you that real android experience like we have here now i know this is skinned over with one ui 3.0 but i've always really enjoyed this i personally use a galaxy phone so i'm used to it but in the end it's really up to you if you can deal with fire os and installing google play or not even installing google play and using the amazon app store then that's totally up to you but if i had to make the choice i would probably go with the tablet that already has google play and android pre-installed out of the box with this one here we've got a really snappy experience with android 11. i love the quad speaker setup it does get plenty loud for a little tablet like this but the screen does leave a lot to be desired i really wish they would have used an ips instead of a tft viewing angles are still pretty decent here but throwing an ips in this would have made all the difference in the world battery life is actually pretty decent running this on loop 50 brightness just a youtube 1080p video i got seven hours and 10 minutes out of it while gaming if you're doing something intensive you can probably expect around four hours you know continuous use if you were to sit there for four hours to kill the battery it's got 15 watt quick charging which really isn't that quick nowadays but it will get you up much faster than it would if it didn't have any kind of quick charging at all so yeah for a low end mid-range tablet it's really not that bad i have seen these on sale for 199 and if you're interested in picking one up i would go with that 199 price tag and that'll get you 32 gigabytes of internal storage and three gigabytes of ram or you can up that with the more expensive model with four gigs of ram 64 gigabytes of storage or you could spend a little more and get 128. personally i'm fine with 4 gigs and 64 gigabytes of storage if you're interested in learning more i'm going to leave a few links in the description but that's going to wrap it up for this one i really appreciate you watching if there's anything else you want to see tested on this tablet just let me know in the comments below but like always thanks for watching\n"