(11-29-2018, 11:22 AM)GreenT Wrote: Your CPU's single-thread passmark rating is only around 1400. You need around 1800 or higher to ensure good performance in Dolphin.
Dolphins requirement vary wildly with different games - some require hard to emulate features, others don't need them so they can be turned off. There are some games that cannot run everything at full speed on even the most expensive, overclocked, super cooled high powered desktop CPU. There simply isn't a value that's "enough" for everything.
Also remember many benchmarks (like passmark) are not a good epresentation of the load dolphin puts on the CPU. It's entirely possible to have a CPU score lower on that, but be faster for many titles in dolphin. No single metric can ever measure how "good" a CPU architecture is, as they all have different strengths and weaknesses.
For example, the Intel haswell series provided a significant boost to dolphin, but a much smaller increase for other metrics (like the passmark benchmark)