(09-07-2014, 04:47 AM)talkingmime Wrote:Quote:When it comes to the performance on high-end iDevices, like the iPad Air, the emulator should run at ok framerate, not much different from shield tablet, possibly faster.
I'm all for the port to iOS and would gladly help if I had an iDevice for testing, but you can't seriously think any latest iDevice can stack up against chips like the K1. The latest iPad is pretty powerful, but it's definitely slower in several ways than any of the best Android-sold tablets (namely with overall CPU power and IPC). Their GPUs can't really stack up either. The best performance you'd be getting on any high-end Android-sold device, expect as much as a two-fold decrease in performance on an accompanying iDevice competitor (at least in the near future). The sole reason being that no iDevice is made (to the best they can be) for overall powerful, fast computing. This may change in the next year and so on, but until then the best framerate on the latest iPad/iPhone is going to be not too much greater than on an HTC One.
Its true, there is no iDevice that can compare to the shield tablet right now. In general the k1 will win over the A7 in most, if not all benchmarks(i have 5 videos comparing k1 & A7 on my YT channel). But when it comes to Dolphin its not really the same as many other emulators. Dolphin runs on 2 cores, even if the shield tablet is 4 cores(thats why we will see up to 100% performance increase with the k1 denver, its a dual-core device). The single threaded performance of the A7 is very good(Geekbench 3.0 goes into more details), its not far from, and could even be better than the shield tablet. But the multi-core performance of the shield tablet is noticable higher than the A7, and that will show clearly when using different apps that can take advantage of all the 4 cores.
What i am trying to is that what is more important when emulating dolphin is that the device needs to give as much power as possible with 2 cores to see good framerates, and part the A7 does very good.