Amd is bad for emulation?

Pur3v1l · 02-26-2011, 09:37 AM #1

Hello I heard somewhere AMD does not support dolphin fully, I also heard emulation is bad on it. Is this true? If so do they plan on making AMD support better?

karnajh · 02-26-2011, 09:49 AM #2

hello,

I think INTEL is the best,but expensive.

I use AMD Phenom II quad 3.2 Ghz on linux and haven't problems, AMD is ok for dolphin

Thk

**Runo** · (This post was last modified: 02-26-2011, 11:10 AM by Runo.)

I believe they were talking about sse4, sse3, etc the instruction sets that are intel only...
Some dolphin builds are optmized for those sets

**Ocean** · 02-26-2011, 11:24 AM #4

most amd processors (be it phenom x2 to phenom x6) use the age-old K10 architecture which isn't optimal for dolphin.

with an overclock you'll definitely run games at decent speeds on a dual core phenom
but in general intel is faster clock for clock.

wait for bulldozer/zambezi processors to be released before upgrading to an AMD rig.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_(processor)