Dolphin CPU hierarchy [UNOFFICIAL]

**NaturalViolence** · (This post was last modified: 11-03-2012, 07:30 AM by NaturalViolence.)

Quote:Technically Piledriver has been out since summer in the form of the Trinity APU. Piledriver by definition is the architecture used in the CPU cores, not the overall processor design. It's Vishera that came out just two weeks ago.

Yes by "they" I meant vishera cpus since it's clear that that was what he was referring to.

Nintendo Maniac 64 · (This post was last modified: 11-03-2012, 07:50 AM by Nintendo Maniac 64.)

Just beware that a lot of reviews didn't compare it to a Phenom II, or even worse compared it to only to Bulldozer and a Sandy/Ivy Bridge i7 *cough*HardOCP*cough*.

As much as some people hate their reviews, I personally found Tom's Vishera review to be one of the most well-rounded, therefore being a good place to start:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8350-vishera-review,3328.html

You can find many more reviews here:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1318860/various-amd-piledriver-fx-series-cpu-reviews-vishera-fx-8350-fx-8320-fx-6300-fx-4300

**NaturalViolence** · 11-03-2012, 08:04 AM **#173**

I'll tell you what. I will consider putting pentium 4 and athlon X2 into separate categories if you do the following for me:
Describe a user experience category between:

Quote:Even with heavy overclocking these cpus are simply too slow for most games.

and

Quote:These cpus run most games at fullspeed with HLE audio if they are heavily overclocked. But at stock speeds they may have have trouble.

that an athlon X2 fits into but not a pentium 4.

Because as far as I am concerned it's not possible. They're both too slow for most games. Therefore they both belong in the slow category.

Nintendo Maniac 64 · 11-03-2012, 08:10 AM **#174**

The word "most" implies that there are actually games that'd run at a decent speed at a Pentium 4...

**NaturalViolence** · (This post was last modified: 11-03-2012, 08:11 AM by NaturalViolence.)

There probably are a handful. Animal crossing might run at fullspeed.

**DefenderX** · 11-03-2012, 08:11 AM **#176**

Yep, for example NSMBWii. This is one of the lightest games and should run well even on a Pentium 4 CPU.

**NaturalViolence** · 11-03-2012, 08:12 AM **#177**

^Now that I disagree with. No way in hell will NSMB run at fullspeed on a pentium 4 even with efb copy to texture and HLE, not even close.

**DefenderX** · 11-03-2012, 08:13 AM **#178**

Well, afaik this is the lightest game. If you think, I'm wrong, than pls name the lightest game Tongue

**AnyOldName3** · 11-03-2012, 08:19 AM **#179**

He did.

Nintendo Maniac 64 · (This post was last modified: 11-03-2012, 08:36 AM by Nintendo Maniac 64.)

The Pentium D, maybe, but I highly doubt the Pentium 4. You need to remember, the Pentium 4 is not a dual-core CPU.

If anything, I think we could probably agree that a line should be drawn between the single-core and dual-core CPUs. I'm sure that would be satisfactory for most of us.

EDIT: Oh, um, I just realized; you're missing the "E1 series" in the desktop section - you have the "E2 series" however. You can look at their differences here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Fusion_microprocessors#Brazos_2.0_.282012.29