For those who are curious, I've been able to bench a number of demanding titles now.
Galaxy 1 and 2 are full speed, even on stock, thanks to no longer needing to rely on LLE. There may be occaisional stutter, but when OCed to 4.2GHZ, they don't even do that.
Prime trilogy runs full speed with minor stutter on stock, and very slight slowdowns in some spots with the scanning visor where there's a lot on screen. Only in Prime 3. OCing to 4.2GHZ again removes even the stuttering, but again a very tiny bit of slowdown remain with the visor in areas with a lot to render.
I can only get Hyrule Field in TP to 15FPS at best even when OCed to 4.2GHZ on HLE. So far, I have also failed to OC the processor any further with stability that doesn't cause temps to spike to 90c+ Seems like I'm stuck with one of the so-so haswells, but that's fine. I have a feeling optimizations will come to both the Gigabyte bios and Dolphin itself eventually. There has already been much performance improvement this past year.
Still, overall, Haswell is definitely a step up. Anything currently playable below these titles runs full speed so far, though I've yet to try Last Story. I look forward to future results, and much more forward to what this thing can do with non-emulated games.
Galaxy 1 and 2 are full speed, even on stock, thanks to no longer needing to rely on LLE. There may be occaisional stutter, but when OCed to 4.2GHZ, they don't even do that.
Prime trilogy runs full speed with minor stutter on stock, and very slight slowdowns in some spots with the scanning visor where there's a lot on screen. Only in Prime 3. OCing to 4.2GHZ again removes even the stuttering, but again a very tiny bit of slowdown remain with the visor in areas with a lot to render.
I can only get Hyrule Field in TP to 15FPS at best even when OCed to 4.2GHZ on HLE. So far, I have also failed to OC the processor any further with stability that doesn't cause temps to spike to 90c+ Seems like I'm stuck with one of the so-so haswells, but that's fine. I have a feeling optimizations will come to both the Gigabyte bios and Dolphin itself eventually. There has already been much performance improvement this past year.
Still, overall, Haswell is definitely a step up. Anything currently playable below these titles runs full speed so far, though I've yet to try Last Story. I look forward to future results, and much more forward to what this thing can do with non-emulated games.