The Legend of Zelda: The Wind waker CPU Benchmark

**NaturalViolence** · (This post was last modified: 08-04-2013, 10:04 AM by NaturalViolence.)

integradc5 Wrote:RE: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind waker CPU Benchmark
Alright that's good to know. I was thinking about upgrading my laptop to one with a haswell CPU, but I think I'll just wait for the
next Intel CPU architecture, or until this one can't handle the games I play on the latest Dolphin revisions.

For the record while your cpu is slightly out of date your microarchitecture (sandy bridge) is by far the most common in our results so far. What we really need are results from obscure chips that nobody uses. Unfortunately we've done such a good job at showing everyone how good the latest Intel microarchitectures are that nobody is stupid enough to waste money on other chips....

08-04-2013, 10:42 AM **#622**

(08-04-2013, 10:03 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:
integradc5 Wrote:RE: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind waker CPU Benchmark
Alright that's good to know. I was thinking about upgrading my laptop to one with a haswell CPU, but I think I'll just wait for the
next Intel CPU architecture, or until this one can't handle the games I play on the latest Dolphin revisions.

For the record while your cpu is slightly out of date your microarchitecture (sandy bridge) is by far the most common in our results so far. What we really need are results from obscure chips that nobody uses. Unfortunately we've done such a good job at showing everyone how good the latest Intel microarchitectures are that nobody is stupid enough to waste money on other chips....

Haha yeah I see what you mean. What kind obscure CPUs are you looking for?

**NaturalViolence** · 08-04-2013, 05:29 PM **#623**

Anything that isn't on the list. Netburst (pentium 4/pentium D), allendale (low end core 2 duo), Phenom (1st generation), Athlon X2 (multiple generations), and jaguar APUs just to name a few.

**Sonicadvance1** · (This post was last modified: 08-05-2013, 03:06 AM by Sonicadvance1.)

I ran these tests on my ARM chromebook mostly for some laughs.
To note, I couldn't use 3.0 due to ARM support not being in at that version, so I'm using current HEAD (f690be3e944f) of the Dolphin repo.
Also to note, the CPU core for ARM is only ~18% complete as per my list here.

The speeds for the three scenes were 6FPS, 4FPS, and 8FPS.

The ARM Chromebook is a 1.7Ghz Dual core Cortex-A15 with a 533Mhz Mali-T604.

**NaturalViolence** · 08-05-2013, 04:20 AM **#625**

Looks like I need to add a new tier to the cpu hierarchy thread. "Android tier", below netbook Tongue

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**Starscream** · 08-05-2013, 04:34 AM **#626**

Obviously his "test" doesn't mean very much considering he's using the wrong build, wrong settings and the Android builds are very far from useful at the moment.

**NaturalViolence** · 08-05-2013, 05:02 AM **#627**

It was a joke. Chill.

**AnyOldName3** · 08-18-2013, 08:31 AM **#628**

I have a couple of Pentium Ds I may be able to test.

**NaturalViolence** · 08-18-2013, 08:34 AM **#629**

Do it.

**AnyOldName3** · 08-18-2013, 09:03 AM **#630**

There's just the small problem of the GPUs attached. Is there a way I can totally disable GPU output so the Intel GMA struggles-with-Aero-on-occasion chip won't bottleneck.

Also, they're both on 32-bit OSes at the moment, and that's not likely to change ever. I've forgotten if we have a procedure for this.