The entire benchmark "doesn't really need to be". It's just beneficial. It's purpose is to collect data that we can then use to draw conclusions from. And the more data it collects the better it serves that purpose and the less assumptions we have to make when extrapolating. Please do not say that it's fulfilled its purpose or that any further data wouldn't be helpful to anyone because that's just plain wrong. I'm compiling a new cpu hierarchy for dolphin and I can tell you that it would greatly benefit from having more available data. Particularly from "exotic" (uncommon) processors.
That only applies to POV ray though. Any other application is going to have a different workload and therefore have different host machine cpu requirements to emulate the Wii cpu at fullspeed. For example the i5 4670K easily beats the wii cpu in this benchmark yet it still cannot run many games as fast as a real wii can.
Do you really think that haswells great performance (which is something we already knew about before this benchmark) was the only useful thing anyone could possibly conclude from a benchmark like this? We still know very little about what exactly makes a cpu good for dolphin. Or how the various components of a cpu affect dolphins performance. To reach these conclusions we need more data. I am particularly interested in studying the effects of cache subsystem properties on dolphins performance.
kodiack Wrote:The benchmark was originally for finding out which processors would be capable of emulating the Wii's CPU at or above full speed.
That only applies to POV ray though. Any other application is going to have a different workload and therefore have different host machine cpu requirements to emulate the Wii cpu at fullspeed. For example the i5 4670K easily beats the wii cpu in this benchmark yet it still cannot run many games as fast as a real wii can.
kodiack Wrote:but beyond that there really isn't too much more to say.
Do you really think that haswells great performance (which is something we already knew about before this benchmark) was the only useful thing anyone could possibly conclude from a benchmark like this? We still know very little about what exactly makes a cpu good for dolphin. Or how the various components of a cpu affect dolphins performance. To reach these conclusions we need more data. I am particularly interested in studying the effects of cache subsystem properties on dolphins performance.
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