(02-08-2018, 06:45 AM)Nintendo Maniac 64 Wrote: Actually Dolphin is one of Ryzen's worst case scenarios, possibly because of how latency sensitive emulation is can be (and we know that latency is a bit of a weak point on the 1000-series Ryzen currently). Alternatively, this may be because Haswell and newer on the Intel side of things are weirdly fast at emulation (20-30% faster than Ivy Bridge) compared to most other workloads (5-10% faster than Ivy Bridge).
Take a look at the Dolphin 5.0 benchmark - Ryzen actually ends up consistantly performing worse than Haswell on a per-GHz basis, and this persists even when using much newer builds of Dolphin (though to a lesser degree).
However, the Ryzen 2200G and 2400G both launch in literally 5 days and should have some improvements to the latency of the memory subsystem, so it's very possible that they may end up with performance in Dolphin that exceeds the current 1000-series Ryzen CPUs.
I think the point here is that the "5.0" benchmarks aren't quite representative of the latest -development release performance, as the performance on ryzen has increased in proportion to the intel equivalents (apparently due to an update of the compiler?)
That's one of the problems with "Benchmarks" - they never quite match with real-world performance, and people often misunderstand what they're saying (here the benchmark list is saying that it's slower in dolphin 5.0 performance. What it is not saying is they are slower in the latest dev release, or generalized to "all dolphin releases ever". Those statements may be true, but that benchmark list isn't evidence for either.)