How well would these laptops (X1 Yoga) run Dolphin?

[Nintonito]

That being said Lenovo’s real world numbers come out pretty good. That being said the price conpared to the XPS does raise some eyebrows.

[amicose]

Thanks everyone. The question is less would it perform well and more would it perform adequately while I'm away for 2-3 months, and stable performance at 720p is more than adequate.

XPS wouldn't work for me as this is a work machine mainly for typing and for me, the Thinkpad keyboard/trackpoint are miles ahead of anything else for that.

[Nintonito]

(07-16-2018, 04:32 AM)amicose Wrote: Thanks everyone. The question is less would it perform well and more would it perform adequately while I'm away for 2-3 months, and stable performance at 720p is more than adequate.

XPS wouldn't work for me as this is a work machine mainly for typing and for me, the Thinkpad keyboard/trackpoint are miles ahead of anything else for that.

Regular performance will be fine. You will probably be stuck to 480p with dolphin though, the combined stress test brought the CPU below base clock on both models you linked.

[amicose]

(07-16-2018, 04:50 AM)Nintonito Wrote: Regular performance will be fine.  You will probably be stuck to 480p with dolphin though, the combined stress test brought the CPU below base clock on both models you linked.

Really? I'd have expected better than that - I have a 2012 Thinkpad (i7-3520M) which i first used to experiment with Dolphin and I got a steady 720p for GC games and 1.5x native for Wii (with occasional stuttering at the beginning of Mario Kart courses)

[Nintonito]

(07-16-2018, 10:35 PM)amicose Wrote: Really? I'd have expected better than that - I have a 2012 Thinkpad (i7-3520M) which i first used to experiment with Dolphin and I got a steady 720p for GC games and 1.5x native for Wii (with occasional stuttering at the beginning of Mario Kart courses)

The 3520M is a 45W part and won’t immediately throttle from a combined CPU+GPU workload. The 8250U/8550U are at best 28W parts and usually 15W, which leaves the power budget next to nothing when the GPU starts working.