Dolphin on the pi 4?

[syferz]

So I found documentation on the Videocore 6.

This part is really interesting:

First the GPU supports ES 3.2 and Vulkan (though it sounds like Raspberry Pi foundation doesn't offer open drivers for that yet, there are closed drivers that exist.

Second was this quote "Videocore 6 is about 4 times faster than Videocore 4"

Third is that the Debian OS is moving to 64bit.

A full speed Videocore 4 has 32 ALUs clocked as high as 500MHz. A literal configuration with 4x the performance is Videocore 6 having 128 ALUs at the default 500MHz, giving it 128GFLOPs, ETA Prime (Youtuber with a RPi4) reported a 620MHz overclock, so we could be looking at ~159GFLOPs, which puts it's raw performance in line with Adreno GPUs like the Snapdragon 508 (163GFLOPs) We know that the Tegra Nano's 230GFLOPs Maxwell GPU can also run Dolphin at a reduced performance, but it's interesting that resolution doesn't change performance in ETA Prime's video with that SBC, likely because the CPU is much slower than the full Tegra X1 at 1.4GHz, and much slower than the Raspberry Pi 4's CPU, which ETA Prime was able to push (along with his GPU overclock) to 1.7GHz on the 16 to 20% faster A72 cores. Of course how much of the bottleneck there is the CPU is all speculation.

I'm going to drop this, it's worth noting that Raspberry Pi 4 even if it does have this level of GPU performance, likely won't run the more popular games at playable frame rates, but I explored this to the fullest that can be explored atm, in a month or two when the documentation opens up and people have been able to experiment with Dolphin, we might be able to see new performances. Sorry if any admin's patience was tested, I wasn't trying to blindly ignore what was being said, just trying to discover the level of performance that might be possible with Raspberry Pi 4.