(09-06-2016, 09:15 PM)admin89 Wrote: It would be correct if both CPUs didn't have Turbo Boost feature ...
According to notebookcheck.net , The i7 5700HQ can turbo up to 3.5GHz with 4 cores active while the i5 4210H only turbo up to 3.4GHz with 2 cores active
True but you forgot about the windows background processing . Dolphin is not the only one that eat CPU resources ...
A Quad Core should be up to 20% faster than a Dual Core in Dolphin
So if you only have Dolphin in mind and you don't care about newer emulator (like Cemu , RPCS3., Xenia...) and PC games then you will be fine with that i5
thanks for your answer!
so in the end the ghz number the processor can reach with turbo boost is more important than the regular cpu? i don't have only dolphin in mind, but i definitely want to play xenoblade and the last story (its almost impossible with my current Intel® Core™ i5 (3.Generation) 3230M - 2,6 ghz). i dont need to play with max graphics, i just want the games to run smoothly with medium details. if both processors can handle that i would take the i7.
greetings
Kadaj