Could Dolphin take advantage of Cuda?

Toxicshadow · 05-05-2009, 08:56 PM #1

The Dolphin emulator appears to be very CPU intensive as opposed to using the full power of the graphics card. Would Dolphin benefit from using the graphics card as a cuda based processor to squeeze some extra power out?

**nosound97** · 05-05-2009, 09:43 PM #2

It's up to devs

**ector** · 05-05-2009, 10:50 PM #3

"Squeeze some power out?" Doing what? There's nothing that Dolphin does except possibly texture conversion, which hardly is a bottleneck, that is CUDA-friendly. Using CUDA to emulate the PowerPC for example would be madness. Barely theoretically possible and would be horribly slow.

05-05-2009, 11:18 PM #4

someone had made the same question at pcsx2 forums and their answer was no Tongue

, the time it would take for the data to go from memory to video ram would make the emu slower, so as ector said it's a NO.

DannyDude170 · 05-07-2009, 01:20 AM #5

Quote:The Dolphin emulator appears to be very CPU intensive as opposed to using the full power of the graphics card. Would Dolphin benefit from using the graphics card as a cuda based processor to squeeze some extra power out?

CUDA is only useful for parallel processing, e.g physics, graphics, and image effects- working on lots of data at the same time. GC/Wii CPU and DSP are serial processors, so CUDA won't be able to help there.