Well this is interesting:
EDIT: I just realized that the results use minutes in decimals rather than minuteseconds.
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Test setup for the Xeon CPUs:
http://anandtech.com/show/7852/intel-xeo...-8-cores/2
Test setup for the A10-7850K:
http://anandtech.com/comments/7852/intel...res/382113
http://anandtech.com/show/7677/amd-kaver...10-7850k/9
(and in no way did I find this extra interesting seeing how I was the person in question that emailed Ian about the Dolphin benchmark, that'd be crazy talk)
EDIT: I just realized that the results use minutes in decimals rather than minuteseconds.
Ian Cutress @ AnandTech Wrote:Console Emulation –Dolphin Benchmark: link
At the start of 2014 I was emailed with a link to a new emulation benchmark based on the Dolphin Emulator. The issue with emulators tends to be two-fold: game licensing and raw CPU power required for the emulation. As a result, many emulators are often bound by single thread CPU performance, and general reports tended to suggest that Haswell provided a significant boost to emulator performance. This benchmark runs a Wii program that raytraces a complex 3D scene inside the Dolphin Wii emulator. Performance on this benchmark is a good proxy of the speed of Dolphin CPU emulation, which is an intensive single core task using most aspects of a CPU. Results are given in minutes, where the Wii itself scores 17.53; meaning that anything above this is faster than an actual Wii for processing Wii code, albeit emulated.
Emulation is a pure single threaded affair, and the IPC improvements of Haswell stand out a lot against the Ivy Bridge-E based Xeons.
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Test setup for the Xeon CPUs:
http://anandtech.com/show/7852/intel-xeo...-8-cores/2
Test setup for the A10-7850K:
http://anandtech.com/comments/7852/intel...res/382113
http://anandtech.com/show/7677/amd-kaver...10-7850k/9
(and in no way did I find this extra interesting seeing how I was the person in question that emailed Ian about the Dolphin benchmark, that'd be crazy talk)
Dolphin 5.0 CPU benchmark
CPU: Xeon E3-1246 v3 (4c/8t Haswell/Intel 4th gen) — core & cache @ 3.9GHz via multicore enhancement
GPU: Intel integrated HD Graphics P4600
RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Xfce + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64
CPU: Xeon E3-1246 v3 (4c/8t Haswell/Intel 4th gen) — core & cache @ 3.9GHz via multicore enhancement
GPU: Intel integrated HD Graphics P4600
RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Xfce + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64