Hey!
I've been poking around mostly on Google and Reddit trying to get to the bottom of this and haven't been able to figure this out.
Within a few years, I'm hopefully going to be in either a "tiny home" or a van dwelling and the majority of my energy will come from solar. Because I'll only have a finite amount of power stored at any given time, I need to cut down on my consumption as much as I possibly can. That said, I still want to be able to play all of my favorite games from the past and Dolphin is essentially the most demanding application for that.
So, I really appreciate games being in 1080p (or nicer, but y'know) and running at 60fps. That's the performance standard I'm setting for myself but I'm also trying to use the smallest amount of power I possibly can while achieving it.
I haven't checked for every iGPU or APU, but I've tried looking into the newer and nicer ones to see if they can give me what I want. Unfortunately, I can't find much to go off of and I don't really know how to interpret Dolphin's benchmark when I do see it in reviews.
From what I can tell, the current top runner for integrated graphics is Intel's Iris Pro 6200 in the i5-5675C. And honestly the main reason I say that is because it can apparently run Street Fighter V in 720p at 60fps, which is really not a very good measurement...
The biggest headache I'm having is that it's really hard to tell at what point I should just start using a discrete GPU like the 750 Ti. And then, if I decide to go with a discrete GPU, how can I secure it if it's going to be in a system that's going in a camper van?
All that considered, am I able to get a system that can run games in Dolphin in 1080p at 60fps pulling less than 50W? 75W? 100W? The lowest power consumption possible is key because, again, I have a finite amount of power available. This is a theoretical exercise, and it might be a year or longer before I build this system so by the time I get around to it this info might be outdated. But, when I do get around to building this system, having this thread as a reference for comparison will be priceless.
(For the sake of this exercise, peripherals outside of the case of the computer are non-factors in power consumption. So, don't include the power that monitors or keyboards or controllers would pull.)
Thanks!
I've been poking around mostly on Google and Reddit trying to get to the bottom of this and haven't been able to figure this out.
Within a few years, I'm hopefully going to be in either a "tiny home" or a van dwelling and the majority of my energy will come from solar. Because I'll only have a finite amount of power stored at any given time, I need to cut down on my consumption as much as I possibly can. That said, I still want to be able to play all of my favorite games from the past and Dolphin is essentially the most demanding application for that.
So, I really appreciate games being in 1080p (or nicer, but y'know) and running at 60fps. That's the performance standard I'm setting for myself but I'm also trying to use the smallest amount of power I possibly can while achieving it.
I haven't checked for every iGPU or APU, but I've tried looking into the newer and nicer ones to see if they can give me what I want. Unfortunately, I can't find much to go off of and I don't really know how to interpret Dolphin's benchmark when I do see it in reviews.
From what I can tell, the current top runner for integrated graphics is Intel's Iris Pro 6200 in the i5-5675C. And honestly the main reason I say that is because it can apparently run Street Fighter V in 720p at 60fps, which is really not a very good measurement...
The biggest headache I'm having is that it's really hard to tell at what point I should just start using a discrete GPU like the 750 Ti. And then, if I decide to go with a discrete GPU, how can I secure it if it's going to be in a system that's going in a camper van?
All that considered, am I able to get a system that can run games in Dolphin in 1080p at 60fps pulling less than 50W? 75W? 100W? The lowest power consumption possible is key because, again, I have a finite amount of power available. This is a theoretical exercise, and it might be a year or longer before I build this system so by the time I get around to it this info might be outdated. But, when I do get around to building this system, having this thread as a reference for comparison will be priceless.
(For the sake of this exercise, peripherals outside of the case of the computer are non-factors in power consumption. So, don't include the power that monitors or keyboards or controllers would pull.)
Thanks!