Graphics Card good for dolphin???

[Bren]

I'm Wondering if this graphics card works well with dolphin before I buy it


SAPPHIRE 100323-2L Radeon HD 6570 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

Link http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102994

[oliverfrancisco]

A precious treasure for lightweight and some average GC/Wii games. Probably lucky with a low number of demanding ones.

Anyway, why are you planning to buy a card that handles DDR memory modules instead of GDDR, that is faster?
(Probably you can´t handle one of those ones with GDDR?)

And finally, if you take a closer look, that´s an embedded card. And embedded things sometimes don´t work well.

[Starscream]

It's similar to what I have in my laptop, so I can tell you that most games will be able to run at 2.5xIR. Some will even be able to handle 3xIR. Don't expect to use any Anti-Aliasing, though.

[oliverfrancisco]

Which games are you planning to play?

[rokclimb15]

That's a mis-print by Newegg I'm pretty sure. That chip is only paired with GDDR. There's a GDDR3 and a GDDR5 edition. This is the former, I assume.

The problem with this card is the memory bandwidth, which is really low (28.8 GB/s). If your budget is small, this will probably do better for Dolphin, believe it or not:

https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-alert-for-all-people-making-new-rigs


It's not a good long-term investment since it's only a DX9 GPU while this is a DX11, but Dolphin doesn't require many DX11 hardware features yet. Eventually it will drop DX9, so that's something to consider too. However, by that point I don't think that 6570 will be keeping pace anymore.

[Starscream]

Unfortunately, DX9 is set to be dropped very soon. You'll want to get something that supports DX11.

[oliverfrancisco]

The Radeon HD 8000 series is a good choice, and it supports DX11.

[NaturalViolence]

The HD 8000 series doesn't exist yet and won't exist for another few months. Low end 8000 series cards won't be available for another year.

[oliverfrancisco]

(09-12-2013, 09:38 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: The HD 8000 series doesn't exist yet and won't exist for another few months. Low end 8000 series cards won't be available for another year.

@NaturalViolence: The latest of the HD 7000 series, then?

[rokclimb15]

If the OP's goal is to play mid to high end games on the current editions, the selected card is a poor choice. If sub $60 is the price point, I don't think there are any 7000 series that are going to fit the requirements. Best bet might be a ~$40 card that works well until 4.0+ when hopefully the higher end 6 and 7000 series come down in price.