Nothing Phone 2 and the Citra core on RetroArch

[Trainer Red]

I'm not a technical person by any means. So I was wondering if anyone would have an idea on how it's possible that this Nothing Phone 2
that has a Snapdragon Gen 1 be able to play a 3ds game like Pokemon UltraSun practically at fullspeed ? While this Samsung S23 Ultra plays the same game and yet I can never find the best combination to have the audio latency drop horribly ever so often ... I mean I'm just baffled since one would think the S23 Ultra would be superior to the Nothing Phone 2

 

[kanesha]

I'm not familiar with either phone, but often times bloatware is the culprit, and a quick search shows that Samsung has lot more of it than Nothing.

 

[Trainer Red]

ah true ... i never considered that ... !

i forgot that bloatware does affect overall performance of a smartphone :/