(03-28-2012, 08:23 AM)StupidStories Wrote: Your assumptions are wrong!
You forgot to explain why.
It's not just a matter of the relative power of the hardware, it's also about the complexity involved. Dolphin has to emulate the functions of that hardware in software, which can take a lot of processing to reach full-speed. The GC has a ton of advantage given that it's running on its own hardware natively. The Gekko may only be a 486 MHz PowerPC chip, but it's processing is very efficient for what it does. Dolphin, and any other emulator too, has to go through a lot to faithfully recreate that.