Thought Experiment: The Best Possible Specs for Dolphin

[DatKid20]

(06-11-2014, 10:17 AM)kinkinkijkin Wrote: But dolphin doesn't benefit from dual-precision, more memory, or extra GPUs, so it really would.

None of which I brought up. In a debate you argue about points the opposition made. Not points that were never brought up.

[kinkinkijkin]

The points were already on the table, you just weren't the one to put them there. And since they contribute to the contrary of what you said, I used them.

[DatKid20]

(06-10-2014, 07:54 AM)DatKid20 Wrote: 780ti? That overpriced POS? I would honestly rather have a r9-290. It has a waaaaay better price to performance ratio and has more video memory bandwith. (If you thought i meant R9-290x just no. That is also a overprice POS.)

So is anyone going to go against this point? Otherwise it is more logical to pick the R9-290.

[kinkinkijkin]

That video memory bandwidth actually isn't a majour factor for dolphin is a good place to start. In fact, with how most programs are designed nowadays, at that level of performance, extra video bandwidth will not do much extra for you at all.

[DatKid20]

(06-12-2014, 10:45 AM)kinkinkijkin Wrote: That video memory bandwidth actually isn't a majour factor for dolphin is a good place to start. In fact, with how most programs are designed nowadays, at that level of performance, extra video bandwidth will not do much extra for you at all.

Price to Performance Ratio is still better with the R9-290. The Vapor-X is a better value then the lowest priced 780ti and the Vapor-X is the most expensive r9-290 within reason

[kinkinkijkin]

Completely true, that.

[DatKid20]

But not being a total fanboy for fun the GTX 780ti/GTX Titan Black would be better.

[AnyOldName3]

The whole point of this thread is that we don't care what's better value for money, but what's better when you're only constraint is that it must use consumer-grade hardware. The 780 Ti's GK110 chip was originally designed as a workstation chip, then turned out cheaper than expected to build so was offered to consumers. This means that unlike most gaming cards, it has really, really good integer performance and therefore outperforms AMD's offerings (whose non-workstation GPUs have better integer performance than nVidia's, but not as good as their workstation GPUs).

[DatKid20]

Does anyone know what the max vram Dolphin can use with a HD texture pack?

[TheLastCat]

(06-14-2014, 10:50 AM)DatKid20 Wrote: Does anyone know what the max vram Dolphin can use with a HD texture pack?

you might find the answer to your question here:

https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-how-much-vram-does-dolphin-need