Hello.
I just installed a new GeForce GTS 250 on my gaming maching last night. The old card is a GeForce 8500 GT. I had benchmarked the old card on Dolphin, PCSX2 and Demul, the previous night, expecting to see a boost in performance. I then played the exact same games with the exact same settings, and the results with the new card were... you guessed it... exactly the same.
I did install the latest drivers from nVidia and, as a sanity check, I played Street Fighter IV PC version with the highest possible settings. It played beatifully without any slowdowns, whereas my old card could not handle anything above 640x480 and minimal quality settings.
I am familiar with emulators, so I know CPU is the biggest contributor to performance, but, unlike MAME, Dolphin does use shaders, so I was expecting my crappy 8500 GT to be a limiting factor. As it turns out, it isn't. This makes me think that GPU requirements for Dolphin and the other emulators I tried, are much lower than what some people in the forums tend to believe.
Could I be missing something?
I just installed a new GeForce GTS 250 on my gaming maching last night. The old card is a GeForce 8500 GT. I had benchmarked the old card on Dolphin, PCSX2 and Demul, the previous night, expecting to see a boost in performance. I then played the exact same games with the exact same settings, and the results with the new card were... you guessed it... exactly the same.
I did install the latest drivers from nVidia and, as a sanity check, I played Street Fighter IV PC version with the highest possible settings. It played beatifully without any slowdowns, whereas my old card could not handle anything above 640x480 and minimal quality settings.
I am familiar with emulators, so I know CPU is the biggest contributor to performance, but, unlike MAME, Dolphin does use shaders, so I was expecting my crappy 8500 GT to be a limiting factor. As it turns out, it isn't. This makes me think that GPU requirements for Dolphin and the other emulators I tried, are much lower than what some people in the forums tend to believe.
Could I be missing something?
Windows 11 | i7-9700K | NVidia RTX 4060 Ti 8GB | 32GB DDR4-3000