I already have a desktop with i5 4670k at 3.8ghz. But for my laptop im upgrading the processor and I want to know what is better for dolphin. I currently have a Athlon ii p320 2.1ghz and it runs games at a playable speed. but I want to get the amd phenom ii x4 x940 be @2.4ghz or the amd phenom ii x640 be @3.2 ghz. I want to get the x940 because its a quad core and it had a higher benchmark score. x940 had 2900 and x640 had 2169. but the x640 has a higher clock of 3.2ghz. which do you think is better for dolphin and will run it faster.
which is better for dolphin
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(08-26-2013, 01:03 AM)xxballerxx54 Wrote: I want to get the amd phenom ii x4 x940 be @3.0 ghz or the amd athlon ii x4 640 be @3.0 ghz I guess this is what you meant. 940 is faster than 640 (but not that much). In both cases you won't be able to use Dolphin at its best
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08-26-2013, 06:46 AM
The x640 BE would be much better suited for dolphin. Dolphin only uses 2 cores anyways so having a quad core cpu doesn't make much of a difference. The x640 has a much higher clock rate and twice the L2 cache size per core.
I'm guessing that the benchmark you're referring to is passmark? Don't use passmark. It's a terrible benchmark to use to compare against applications like dolphin with completely different workloads. Please benchmark your current laptop here before upgrading it if you can: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-th...-benchmark Your current cpu is fairly rare and has some unique properties (64 bit FPU in an otherwise mostly 10H core). I would very much like to see how these properties effect dolphins performance. If you do this I can even tell you how much of a speedup you'll see before you install the new cpu.
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(08-26-2013, 06:46 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: The x640 BE would be much better suited for dolphin. Dolphin only uses 2 cores anyways so having a quad core cpu doesn't make much of a difference. The x640 has a much higher clock rate and twice the L2 cache size per core. So should I get the amd phenom ii x640 @3.2ghz and maybe try to overclock lol. 08-28-2013, 08:19 AM
Yes. And please try to quote properly next time.
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