(05-14-2018, 11:29 AM)TKSilver Wrote: RISC is not the same as CISC, smartphone SoCs are built to do calculations fast then switch to run on the lower power cores, and others someone else can add
Basically it will still be a while until mobile chipsets get anywhere close to the 3.5GHz Ivy Bridge (or Haswell) performance that dolphin really needs to make a large number of games run at or near original speed. This is assuming that mobile chipsets increase performance instead of just going for battery life, lower heat, and other things once the industry thinks there is enough "performance" for the majority of users.
RISC and CISC haven't really meant anything in decades - at least as far as hardware limitations are concerned. Theres not much specific to the x86 instruction set that makes it higher power but with higher performance, and nothing about the arm instruction set that saves power at the expense of performance. The actual CPU implementation and trade offs made in that are the real deciding factor.