(04-03-2015, 01:56 AM)uac9000 Wrote: Oh it's ok don't trouble yourself with all that, i just want to know if a 4.0GHz AMD chip (since i hear emulators are cpu intensive) will give me performance as good as an Intel chip, and for high end gaming in general.
No it won't. Any recent intel chip will be about 50% faster than any amd chip, both at the same clockspeed. This is also true for an intel quad core vs amd 8-core, because Dolphin uses only 2-3 main threads, and with your system processes, the sweet spot is a quad core, adding more cores does nothing.
Most games might be playble on amd cpus now, but they will run better on an intel cpu.