(12-25-2015, 07:47 PM)Set@moN Wrote: Since yesterday I was thinking that Intel Cpu's has better performance against AMD ones in Dolphin. After downloading Revision 4.0.8483, I was able to run almost any title with rock solid performance without any noticeable issue. With these latest Dolphin revisions I see that there is no reasonable point to change Amd system with an Intel just for Dolphin. I am now very happy getting similar performance for my applications without wasting more money. Now everything runs at rock solid 30 FPS. My system has an AMD X4 955 BE CPU @ 3.6 GHz, AMD Radeon HD 7850 GPU and 8 GB DDR2 RAM. It is good to see optimisations for AMD CPUs in Dolphin since 3.5. It's improving constantly.
That CPU is not bad. It's old, but still the best desktop CPU architecture AMD has to offer (together with the Athlon II X2).
Better than the disappointing FX series (very low IPC and high TDP) or the 6-core Phenoms (horrible Turbo Core v1.0, too small cache to feed 6 cores).
Sure, they have Carrizo (Excavator FX) which is superior, but that's for laptops only.
With the latest official build of Dolphin, the Phenom II X4 clocked at 3.6 GHz should be able to run even some of the more demanding titles at full or close to full speed.
There are numerous optimizations in the latest version, but those apply to all CPUs (Intel and AMD).
The only optimization that substantially improved performance on [older] AMD CPUs (Athlon II and Phenom II) was the vertex loader JIT SSE2 fallback.
The GPU you have (HD7850 = slightly better than a R7 265) is a great choice for Dolphin if you use the Direct3D backend and the latest drivers from AMD's website.
If you're an experienced user, you can also try one of the unofficial builds (not supported in this forum) which may work even better on older/less powerful CPUs like yours or to see if the new experimental DirectX 12 backend (Windows 10 only) provides an extra performance boost.