Benchmarking Dolphin

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:Are we taking GPUs into account? I see you didn't mention them. Personally I would say just leave them out, as it hardly ever is a bottleneck in Dolphin.

Third sentence of my original post

Quote: the benchmarking will revolve around the cpu specifically since it is almost always the bottleneck in dolphin

Quote:I'm running Windows 7 x64 on the first one, W7 x86 on the other one, but I'm willing to install a different OS beside the primary one if necessary.

Unnessecary since 32 bit dolphin runs in a 64 bit OS.

Quote:As for which game to use for the benchmark: why not use several? Zelda TP Wii demands ridiculous muscle for Hyrule field, Metroid Prime is a bitch in some areas, F Zero GX isn't all fun and games on some more mainstream systems... let's just pick a few and choose a specific point in the game for the benchmark.

We won't use several because whatever game/games we choose everyone will have to have. The more games we use the less people can participate. And remember that we want to choose a game that is basically impossible to run at fullspeed at some point near the beginning. Metroid prime seems like the best candidate in my opinion but I still want to put it to a vote.

I want everyone who is participating to have at least 2GB of ram as having less than that seems to dramatically impact performance.

I now want everyone from here on out to post not only their cpu models for all the systems they can use but a list of games they can use as well. People who have already posted should post their games as well. After a week or so we should have enough people to get started so I will put up a poll with the 10 most popular games and we will all vote on one.

Be sure to check my original post every once and awhile since I will constantly be adding new details to it.

Once we have enough people I'll set up an irc channel just for this group in order to help better organize things.

[Ocean]

Literally any wii game, and about 20% of gc games. I got legal dumps on ftp which are also used by a few other people. (But it's just for people known IRL who buy games/imports). I started a project of listing them all on dolphin-emu.com as you can see in my profile but it got very tiresome uploading config and gameplay screens for every single topic, so taking a break.

Good idea about the top 10 vote.

[Graglin]

I can help =)
I have no overclocking experience, so unfortunately I'll have to sit that part out however...

AMD Phenom II X2 550 BE @ 3.1ghz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ @ 2.1ghz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 @ 2.5ghz

I can run whatever OS needed on 'em for you guys as well =)

[JADS]

I own most major Nintendo games:

• Metroid Prime 1 and 2 for the Gamecube (PAL), Triology for Wii
• Melee and Brawl (Pal)
• Both Zelda's for the Gamecube (NTSC) and Twighlight Princess for Wii (PAL)
• Mario Sunshine, Galaxy, Kart and NSMBWii (Pal)
• Tales of Symphonia for Gamecube (Pal) and Dawn of a new World for Wii (NTSC)
• Every Resident Evil game released on GameCube and Wii
  

I forgot all about my laptop, which has an AMD Turion X2 Tyler core at 1.8 Ghz with 2 gb of ram running Vista 32bit. Should be fun testing that against a t5500/t5600. Will put up a CPUZ vallidation shortly of it.

[Leo]

Here are my processor configs:

Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T5200 @ 1.60GHz 1.60GHz

Instructions:MMX,SSE(1,2,3S),EM64T

Supports 32 and 64 Bits.

Does I can help?I play Okami,Zelda Wind Waker,Zelda Twilight Princess(GC) and Super Smash Bros. Melee.

[darkshadw]

Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, 3050 MHz, 2 core('s), 2 logische processor(s)

:p. Maybe I can help .

[jontcold]

phenom 2 x4 965 3.4 oc 3.8
kinstong hyper x 1066 4 g ddr2
asus engtx 260 896 megs top
m4a78pro
sond blaster xfire not onboard i got but dont use
power supplies 700 watts

amd 965 ias the top amd right now if you have a test to do i think my pc is a good tester

[Starscream]

I'll see if I have time to test. Specs and games in the pics, more specs in my sig.

[James333]

Specs in the signature

we have to choose a game in common , I think

[akskiller]

My specs are in my sig as well.