MediaTek's Dimensity 9400 processor in the OPPO Find X8 Pro performed well in benchmarks and showed good thermal management for gaming sessions.
The writer compared it to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processor in the ASUS ROG Phone 9 Pro and the mid-range GPU implementation in the Google Pixel 8 Pro.
The ASUS Zenfone 11 Ultra, with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, was included as an example of last-gen performance.
Benchmarks were used to set expectations before assessing the real-world gaming performance of the phones.