(12-19-2015, 05:18 AM)UltraJake Wrote: If push comes to shove, going the Ishiiruka route could still be cool.
I think that would be bad for dolphin and end users if it happened. If ishiiruka had d3d12 support and main dolphin didn't.
I also tried it and it is definitely faster in graphic intensive games at least when using efb to texture, tried The Last Story that uses efb to ram and the results are similar, about 5% difference at best case scenario although it is a graphic intensive game. When using efb to texture in SMG2 i had 40% increase at the mario spaceship planet. In mario kart wii i had worse performance weirdly from 210 fps down to 180 in the rainbow road time trial (this game uses emulate format changes). Also Sonic Colours was a bit slower, down from 60 fps to 55 fps at the first stage. Xenoblade was the same speedwise, didn't notice any improvement. Star wars rebel strike intro went from 45 to 49 fps.
All in all speed improvement varies from game to game and there are games that i noticed a slowdown like Mario Kart wii and Sonic Colors. And speedup is mostly when using efb to texture, efb to ram games don't benefit the same.