Comparison between two laptops

[shellashock]

Hello everyone. My brother has gotten a new laptop for his birthday for school purposes. He wants to use it for Dolphin at home, but would prefer to use the faster laptop as Dolphin requires a ton of CPU power. My laptop is an Aspire 7750Z-4495, with a B940 processor in it @ 2.0 ghz. My brother's is a Dell Inspiron 5050 with an i3-2365M processor @ 1.4 ghz. Just from a CPU standpoint, which one is faster on Dolphin. If I remember correctly, they are bth based off of sandy bridge, and a B940 is only slightly behind an i3. so, what od you think

[LordVador]

Both processors are too slow for Dolphin

[Zee530]

Both processors are quite weak and almost all games you try will run slow, but yeah the B940 should be faster.

[admin89]

Pentium Sandy Bridge is almost the same CPU as i3 Sandy Bridge
The i3 has Hyper Threading ( 2 cores 4 threads ) and Pentium SB doesn't have HT ( 2 cores 2 threads)
According to Benchmark data
B940 beat i3 2365M in both single threaded & multi threaded benchmark (2609.5 vs 1826 & 5066.5 vs 4044)
If both CPU had the same clock speed : 2.0GHz , the i3 would beat Pentium SB in multi-threaded benchmark
Dolphin doesn't care about HT . So Pentium SB all the way (it's cheaper)

However...
IMO , both CPU are horrible for Dolphin

[shellashock]

i know that it is not the best choice for dolphin because i already am playing it, but I am used to slow gameplay. Besides the only games I wanted to play were pacman world 2 and paper mario ttyd, and both run at an average of 80-90%. This is perfectly fine for me. Also, thanks for giving me the comparison quickly, I just wanted to know which one would faster for dolphin. thanks for your time

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sorry, just rechecked he cpu for the inspiron. im sorry it was actually an i3-2370M @ 2.40 ghz. this probably is a game changer, so could you recheck findings. i was accidentely looking at trimmed version on the internet, as my brother had the laptop at school. So based on this new information, which one would you think is faster? and it the i3 was faster, how much fps or vps difference would it make? thanks for your time. sorry about the mixup .

[Zee530]

i3 ftw

[shellashock]

any noticable vps or fps changes between the two? or would it be just a miniscule difference that isn't really going to change emulation speed. the faster the better, graphics are always on 1 ir and no AA or SSAA so no worris about graphics cards.

[Zee530]

According to admin the B940 will be faster in both single and multithreaded applications but the i3s higher clock rate will give it a slight edge, maybe about 5-10%.

[shellashock]

ok thanks for the advice. I will get my brother to try it and I will see what the benchmarks say in Dolphin.