A new gaming test has thrown up some performance issues for the Xiaomi Poco F4 GT. The Poco F4 GT is POCO’s first gaming-focused smartphone for the global audience.
A YouTube video first shared by Golden Reviewer revealed the poor performance of the Poco F4 GT as a gaming phone. The Poco GT throttled throughout the duration of the testing even though it achieved its maximum of 60 fps.
The Poco F4 GT is a renamed Redmi K50 Gaming Edition that was released earlier this year. It is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset and features magnetomotive shoulder triggers. Overall, the YouTube video showed that the Poco F4 GT settled at an average of 47.5 fps.
The result translates to a damning slow gaming device and the Poco F4 GT is the most underwhelming in the category. The throttling began just three minutes into the test and the device settled at just 40 fps by the tenth minute of the test.
To put the performance in perspective, the S22 Ultra got averaged between 56fps and 58fps depending on its chip. The S22 Ultra model with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip performed slightly better than the Exynos 990 and 2200-powered models. It should be seen that being a gaming device, the Poco F4 GT’s performance becomes more woeful. It is unclear what could be the reason for the results. It has also to be noted that the test may not be definitive of the full capability of the smartphone.
The gaming test results which compared 8 smartphones showed that the Poco F4 GT also came short in average power/ Watt and efficiency fps/ Watt. It is unclear what the cause of the poor performance could be. The processor can be one of the major sources of such under-par performance, but the Galaxy S22 Ultra (with the same SD 8 Gen 1 chip) had a higher fps.
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