CPU and GPU for 4K Dolphin

[extherian]

For desktop PCs, the 1050 Ti is not powerful enough for 4K in Dolphin. It can handle just about anything with 3x Internal Resolution and 8x MSAA, but for 4k you'll need at least a GTX 1060.

[metalmaniac253]

(01-22-2018, 02:31 AM)extherian Wrote: For desktop PCs, the 1050 Ti is not powerful enough for 4K in Dolphin. It can handle just about anything with 3x Internal Resolution and 8x MSAA, but for 4k you'll need at least a GTX 1060.

Do you think a laptop 1060 will do? I figured a 1060 should be sufficient.

[nyanzabg]

(01-22-2018, 02:47 AM)metalmaniac253 Wrote: Do you think a laptop 1060 will do? I figured a 1060 should be sufficient.

The 10-- mobile line are pretty close to their desktop equivalents so it should be fine for the games that the desktop 1060 handles well.
I'd be more concerned with throttling and keeping that power than the power itself.

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

(01-22-2018, 02:31 AM)extherian Wrote: 1050 Ti is not powerful enough for 4K in Dolphin. It can handle just about anything with 3x Internal Resolution and 8x MSAA, but for 4k you'll need at least a GTX 1060.

I don't think you'll need a full-fat 8x AA with 6x IR, especially considering that the GameCube and Wii could not push as many polygons as modern PC games do, and fewer polygons means fewer vertices that can have aliasing.

[Shadorino]

I wouldn't recommend anything below a 1060, even just for Dolphin. For the CPU, an i5 of 6th, 7th or 8th gen will do great. It is a bad time to upgrade PCs at the moment though. Prices for GPUs are ridiculous, and RAM is insane, for both DDR3 and DDR4.

[mstreurman]

(01-23-2018, 01:26 PM)Shadorino Wrote: I wouldn't recommend anything below a 1060, even just for Dolphin. For the CPU, an i5 of 6th, 7th or 8th gen will do great. It is a bad time to upgrade PCs at the moment though. Prices for GPUs are ridiculous, and RAM is insane, for both DDR3 and DDR4.

1050 is fiiiiine for Dolphin at 4k, for a lot of cases even a 750 or 950 will do (my 780 also has no issues).

[Shadorino]

Depends on the game actually. Also depends on the ubershaders and dual core settings. My old 780 Ti didn't have problems for 4x IR and 4x MSAA, depending on the game.

[metalmaniac253]

(01-23-2018, 06:12 PM)Shadorino Wrote: Depends on the game actually. Also depends on the ubershaders and dual core settings. My old 780 Ti didn't have problems for 4x IR and 4x MSAA, depending on the game.

I'm looking at laptops, the ones I've found have an i7 7700HQ, which I believe should be sufficient in Dual Core mode. I'm thinking I just want 4k, which I believe is 6x IR (if I remember correctly, I'm not at my laptop atm)

Then I just want to bump up MSAA to 4x and bump AF up a bit. I think that should do it, but if I need to I'll go with a GTX 1070

[mstreurman]

(01-24-2018, 12:16 AM)metalmaniac253 Wrote: I'm looking at laptops, the ones I've found have an i7 7700HQ, which I believe should be sufficient in Dual Core mode. I'm thinking I just want 4k, which I believe is 6x IR (if I remember correctly, I'm not at my laptop atm)

Then I just want to bump up MSAA to 4x and bump AF up a bit. I think that should do it, but if I need to I'll go with a GTX 1070

GTX1070 is a GPU, i7 7700HQ is a CPU, they have "nothing" to do with eachother.

If you mean using the iGPU in the 7700HQ as your GPU, then you won't get 4k or 6x IR.

[AnyOldName3]

Are you sure you'll need 4x MSAA at 4K? It tends to be the case that you need less at higher resolutions as each pixel covers a smaller region of your vision.