New Dolphin CPU Benchmark - NO GAME REQUIRED

[delroth]

I also had a long email thread about that with Ian from Anandtech, regarding what the benchmark exactly measures and things like that.

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

(03-22-2014, 10:07 PM)delroth Wrote: I also had a long email thread about that with Ian from Anandtech, regarding what the benchmark exactly measures and things like that.

By "email thread" I presume you mean lots of back-and-forth emailing between you two? I'll admit that I've never heard that being called a "thread" before. Presumably whatever it was you told Ian he deemed to be of some sort of worth for him to incorporate the benchmark into his test suite.

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(03-22-2014, 07:59 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Whoever did this is my hero now.

It would seem that somebody missed the following...

(03-18-2014, 06:45 AM)Nintendo Maniac 64 Wrote: (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)

[delroth]

(03-24-2014, 05:25 PM)Nintendo Maniac 64 Wrote: By "email thread" I presume you mean lots of back-and-forth emailing between you two? I'll admit that I've never heard that being called a "thread" before. Presumably whatever it was you told Ian he deemed to be of some sort of worth for him to incorporate the benchmark into his test suite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

(03-24-2014, 05:32 PM)delroth Wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading

Oh, I never realized that had a name. For one thing I wanted to make sure you weren't just referring to some of the things you had stated earlier in this here topic.

I won't ask what it was you two discussed in the interest of privacy.

[skanob]

CPU: i3-3227U @ 1.9GHz
OS: Windows 8.1 x64
Time: 25 minutes, 45 seconds
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/mXadFXa

[skanob]

CPU: Intel Core2Duo T6600 @ 2.2GHz
OS: Windows 7 x64
Time: 26 minutes, 49 seconds
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/h5iOuFU.jpg

[kinkinkijkin]

CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 220 (stock 2.8GHz core 1.6GHz CPU-NB/HT) @ 3.5GHz core 2.5GHz CPU-NB/HT OC
OS: Windows 8.1 x86_64 (or x64, as some people call it)
Time: 17 minutes 25 seconds
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/HQTtYcF.png

Will test later at a lower CPU-NB/HT speed, and again at stock.

I really think CPU-NB/HT or cache speeds should be taken into account in the spreadsheet. I know that it's not too much in the control of Intel users, but it's definitely in the control of AMD users, and makes enough of a difference to acknowledge.

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

Too bad the chart isn't updated anymore. :/

[kinkinkijkin]

What at shame, would've been nice to flaunt about when someone with an ultra-low-power sandy tells me their processor is better than mine because it's intel.

[Kodiack]

(04-01-2014, 10:09 AM)Nintendo Maniac 64 Wrote: Too bad the chart isn't updated anymore. :/

It doesn't really need to be. The benchmark was originally for finding out which processors would be capable of emulating the Wii's CPU at or above full speed. It's easily accomplished what it set out to do, and then some! There were a few interesting discoveries, namely, how Haswell's IPC performs so well in this situation, but beyond that there really isn't too much more to say. Specific performance for any CPU can easily be extrapolated by comparing it against processors that are already in the chart. Further updating would simply be a waste of time.