If people are looking for something to heavily game one, I would suggest they grab the older SD865 SOC. SD865's GPU can be even OC-ed up to 950Mhz with lower power consumption than stock, which almost beats the SD888's GPU in Peak performance and it doesn't thermal throttle unlike SD888's GPU or the SOC overall. SD865 is still one of the most efficient SOCs Qualcomm released, and even though all these new SOCs, like the SD8 Gen 1 and the SD8 Gen 1 Plus beat it in terms of raw performance, they can't come even close in terms of power consumption and stability. The new SOCs are just HEAVILY thermal throttling. Alla of those benchmarks and scores are just on paper (Marketing) while playing actually heavy games on them for a prolonged time is a pain in the ass.