So i'm looking at getting a middle of the road card for a shuttle computer I have that already plays most games in dolphin reasonably well at 1.5x to 2x IR with the onboard video, but of course it would be nice if it ran better. also some games just don't run well at all and I aim to fix those with a real video card. For instance Fortune Street just chugs no matter what I do, nothing speeds it up, its playable but not nice and that's the main reason i'm using this, so horribly long bouts of fortune street don't kill my system launch wii console
I'm going super cheap too, refurbs, I've had good luck so far and this isn't my main so it shouldn't be a problem. I'll just torture it when I get it but I have to ask....
I know theres an OpenCL option for offloading texture decoding to the GPU, that's cool and all but its still experimental. Should we expect that theres a possibility that it'll be ironed out and start helping out with performance of the emulator?
is there any possible support for CUDA or Direct Compute in the future for even more enhancements?
i'm stuck between 2 cards and the reason I ask is because if thers nothing planned beyond whats already there for openCL then i'll just get the 7750 refurb since it has 1gig DDR5, if theres plans for CUDA than of course i'll go nVidia and a GT 640 with 2gig DDR3, if theres direct computer than i'll stick with the 7750 because that's an amd thing. the cards are pretty even, the 640 has more core power and the 7750 has way more memory bandwidth and of course I could over clock either one as long as it doesent get too hot in that little box.
theres also a size restraint, single slot cards because the 16x slot is on the outer edge of the case. nothing that requires an external PSU supply because shuttle computers don't have large PSUs, this ones I think 300 peak and its already at 175 under load and you'll want headroom adding a card under full load wont leave much headroom, there will be some though...
I'm going super cheap too, refurbs, I've had good luck so far and this isn't my main so it shouldn't be a problem. I'll just torture it when I get it but I have to ask....
I know theres an OpenCL option for offloading texture decoding to the GPU, that's cool and all but its still experimental. Should we expect that theres a possibility that it'll be ironed out and start helping out with performance of the emulator?
is there any possible support for CUDA or Direct Compute in the future for even more enhancements?
i'm stuck between 2 cards and the reason I ask is because if thers nothing planned beyond whats already there for openCL then i'll just get the 7750 refurb since it has 1gig DDR5, if theres plans for CUDA than of course i'll go nVidia and a GT 640 with 2gig DDR3, if theres direct computer than i'll stick with the 7750 because that's an amd thing. the cards are pretty even, the 640 has more core power and the 7750 has way more memory bandwidth and of course I could over clock either one as long as it doesent get too hot in that little box.
theres also a size restraint, single slot cards because the 16x slot is on the outer edge of the case. nothing that requires an external PSU supply because shuttle computers don't have large PSUs, this ones I think 300 peak and its already at 175 under load and you'll want headroom adding a card under full load wont leave much headroom, there will be some though...
