(05-11-2010, 01:07 AM)Jotokun Wrote: You will NOT be able to run games in 1080p with that graphics card. My computer has a 4570 and while it runs great at 480p, anything higher than that makes it choke. I dont know how different they are, but I know that the 4570 is stronger than the 4350 so if I cant do it, you definitely cant.
As said, dolphin performance has a lot to do with what type of cpu your setup has. You are using laptop with 2.13ghz processor. Were it amd phenom II x4 @3.6ghz for example, it could render fullHD just fine with that card. Were it just pentium III, it would probably struggle even at 480p.
It is incorrect to assume your results are universal. Your CPU has everything to do with graphics performance. If there is a disparity between the two, there will be a 'bottleneck' (gpu is too powerful for processor), which means the card is rendering dx9/opengl draw commands into graphics faster than the cpu can process input/output (or in reverse, the cpu would be ready to process more information but the card is slow).
The CPU also has to perform DSP sound emulation, run proprietary OS/background processes like av, operate JIT recompiler (or intepreter) etc. which all further deducts from the resources available for graphics. It's essential to have both up to date. Amount of RAM is a less significant issue than gpu/cpu.