Is the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact strong enough?

[That one guy with Dolphin]

Is the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact strong enough to run some games in Dolphin?
The specs of the phone:
OS Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop), upgradable to 7.1.1 (Nougat)
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8994 Snapdragon 810 (20 nm)
CPU Octa-core (4x1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4x2.0 GHz Cortex-A57)
GPU Adreno 430

[DJBarry004]

Yep, -some- of them. Mostly lightweight games that even a potato PC would run.

[That one guy with Dolphin]

Yep, -some- of them. Mostly lightweight games that even a potato PC would run.

Could you be a little bit more specific? Games that even potato pc’s wil run. Can you can tell some examples?

[mbc07]

The Z5 Compact won't be enough, not even for lightweight games. While it meets the minimum requirements for running Dolphin's Android port, that Snapdragon 810 SoC is 5 years old and it's known to have serious overheating problems, to the point it will throttle its performance in less than 2 minutes when you hit it with any demanding workload (like Dolphin, for instance)...

[That one guy with Dolphin]

The Z5 Compact won't be enough, not even for lightweight games. While it meets the minimum requirements for running Dolphin's Android port, that Snapdragon 810 SoC is 5 years old and it's known to have serious overheating problems, to the point it will throttle its performance in less than 2 minutes when you hit it with any demanding workload (like Dolphin, for instance)...

So you are basically telling me that the phone will overheat when I’m playing dolphin for 2 minutes? Will it have damage than my phone?

[JosJuice]

So you are basically telling me that the phone will overheat when I’m playing dolphin for 2 minutes? Will it have damage than my phone?

It won't damage your phone, because phones have a safeguard that make them run slower when the heat otherwise would have gotten too high, bringing the heat down. But as you can probably guess, playing a game is no fun if it's running super slowly.

[That one guy with Dolphin]

It won't damage your phone, because phones have a safeguard that make them run slower when the heat otherwise would have gotten too high, bringing the heat down. But as you can probably guess, playing a game is no fun if it's running super slowly.

Well that’s a relief and a big disappointment at the same time. Well the only way to figure it out is by trying it I think. Thank you for helping me thought