New Phone for Dolphin

[mbc07]

Don't trust YouTube videos. Most of them will show only specific gameplay segments of specific lightweight games where they run near or at full speed, won't show the settings they used (most use settings that sacrifices accuracy and might introduce game-breaking bugs) and mostly important, they won't show the game running for long enough so you won't see the big performance hit Dolphin takes once the device's thermal management kicks in.

If you still want to buy a phone to use with Dolphin, you should aim at models with the latest flagships SoCs from Qualcomm (Snapdragon 820/835/845, etc) as they'll be the ones with the least GPU driver bugs (that doesn't mean they're perfect!). But keep in mind that no matter what you see on YouTube, most (to not say all) games still won't run with good performance, especially after the thermal management kicks in.

TL;DR currently there's no phone with enough performance or with mature enough GPU drivers to run Dolphin at decent performance...

[pintitas]

(05-03-2018, 05:59 AM)mbc07 Wrote: Don't trust YouTube videos. Most of them will show only specific gameplay segments of specific lightweight games where they run near or at full speed, won't show the settings they used (most use settings that sacrifices accuracy and might introduce game-breaking bugs) and mostly important, they won't show the game running for long enough so you won't see the big performance hit Dolphin takes once the device's thermal management kicks in.

If you still want to buy a phone to use with Dolphin, you should aim at models with the latest flagships SoCs from Qualcomm (Snapdragon 820/835/845, etc) as they'll be the ones with the least GPU driver bugs (that doesn't mean they're perfect!). But keep in mind that no matter what you see on YouTube, most (to not say all) games still won't run with good performance, especially after the thermal management kicks in.

TL;DR currently there's no phone with enough performance or with mature enough GPU drivers to run Dolphin at decent performance...

there are no phones with a decent performance ... does it mean that the Nvidia Shield k1 (tablet) or the Nvidia Shield x1 (android tv) are up to the job? since technically they use android but they are not telephones ...

[JonnyH]

(05-03-2018, 06:16 AM)pintitas Wrote: there are no phones with a decent performance ... does it mean that the Nvidia Shield k1 (tablet) or the Nvidia Shield x1 (android tv) are up to the job? since technically they use android but they are not telephones ...

The k1 tablet won't run dolphin at all, as it doesn't have an arm64-capable CPU.

The x1 is one of the better devices for dolphin though - the CPU is getting a little slow, but the GPU actually works (which is a step up from most android devices).

But there's not really any advantage over any other small and light Intel PC (like a NUC) or similar, and then you don't have to deal with Android.

[Davneta]

Okay. I will go forward with the mi6 then. Thank you

[pintitas]

(05-03-2018, 07:02 AM)JonnyH Wrote: The k1 tablet won't run dolphin at all, as it doesn't have an arm64-capable CPU.

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I saw the Nvidia Shield k1 (tablet) running super fluidly the zelda twilight princess

[JonnyH]

(05-03-2018, 07:20 AM)pintitas Wrote: I saw the Nvidia Shield k1 (tablet) running super fluidly the zelda twilight princess

That's cool.

But the tegra k1 with A15s still won't run any recent, remotely supported version of dolphin.

[pintitas]

(05-03-2018, 07:23 AM)JonnyH Wrote: That's cool.

But the tegra k1 with A15s still won't run any recent, remotely supported version of dolphin.

does it mean that if I have a oneplus 5t 8gb ram soc snapdragon 835 gpu adreno 540 then I have better performance and support for the dolphin emulator than it would have someone with the nvidia shield k1?

[JonnyH]

(05-03-2018, 07:28 AM)pintitas Wrote: does it mean that if I have a oneplus 5t 8gb ram soc snapdragon 835 gpu adreno 540 then I have better performance and support for the dolphin emulator than it would have someone with the nvidia shield k1?

Probably, yes, as the only builds that would work on the k1 would be pre-5.0 - and all the bugs that implies. Some specific games may work OK, but there's presumably a reason why dolphin development didn't stop then.

[donkeyhigh]

https://youtu.be/biZB1P8O160

This guy keeps making videos where he compares emulators on different phones. Overall, the Xperia XZ2 seems to be the ultimate emulator phone..
Even though Oneplus 5t has double the ram as xz2, the emulators don't really use all the ram anyways. I think he said something like they only use 2gb ram anyways. The difference between snapdragon 835 and 845 seems to be huge though.. And even though galaxy s9 and xz2 both have snapdragon 845,the xz2 easily outperforms the galaxy.

Check out his channel, he tests Huawei P20, Oneplus 5T, Galaxy 9, and Xperia xz2 for the most part.

Also shows some demanding PSP and Ps2 games..

[LG Fanatic]

Nice! Looks the Xperia ZX2 is a really nice phone. I just wish Sony didn't give in to the new "standard" of 18:9 screens.