Is my laptop able to run Dolphin?

[Nerdtendo64]

I tested New Super Mario Bros Wii and Metroid Prime. NSMBWii runs the best obviously with some occasional slowdown but is playable. Metroid Prime is not. Here are my specs:

Windows 11

Intel® Pentium® Silver N5030 CPU @ 1.10 GHz

64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Graphics card:

Intel UHD Graphics 605

Microsoft DirectX 12

Graphics Driver 31.0.101.2111

Vulkan 1.3.215

[themaster123]

If your already at 1x and default setting then you probably can't run it at full speed. You can try changing the backend to see if a different backend is faster but I doubt it will make enough of a difference. That a low power processor with around 5 watts tdp. Dolphin need a reasonable decent cpu speed to run at full speed. At those low tdp it wouldn't be able to get to clock speeds at least for long to run dolphin well

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

Your CPU is almost certainly the issue since the "silver" variant of Pentium CPUs are basically just the newer branding for Intel's Atom CPUs; it's the "gold" variant of Pentium CPUs that are basically just an i3 with fewer CPU threads. Since Dolphin is very heavy on only two CPU threads, this means that fewer faster threads will vastly outperform having a greater quantity of slower threads - my own 2core/2thread Pentium G3258 is a great example of this and competes well with not only the 4c/8t i7-4790K but also the 16c/32t Ryzen 3950X.

(though, just like "Atom", even this "silver" branding has since recently been retired by Intel in place of just "Intel processor"; the "gold" branding has similarly been retired and will remain as just "Pentium" going forward like it was before the silver/gold branding got introduced in the mid 2010s)

[sirdaniel]

TDP 6W so do not expect miracles.

However, make sure laptod can suck fresh air for cooling. And try to use video backend like dx12 or vulkan, not sure which would be better in that case.