(09-02-2016, 07:48 AM)Ivybridge11 Wrote: The G3258, if I recall correctly, is a Haswell processor, which performs much better in Dolphin.
Indeed this is the case. Not only that, but Dolphin only really takes good advantage of 3 cores (CPU, GPU, DSP), but the benchmark has no audio and is very slim on the graphics, so a dual core could easily see the same performance as even an 8-core of the same CPU architecture.
Dolphin 5.0 CPU benchmark
CPU: Xeon E3-1246 v3 (4c/8t Haswell/Intel 4th gen) — core & cache @ 3.9GHz via multicore enhancement
GPU: Intel integrated HD Graphics P4600
RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Xfce + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64
CPU: Xeon E3-1246 v3 (4c/8t Haswell/Intel 4th gen) — core & cache @ 3.9GHz via multicore enhancement
GPU: Intel integrated HD Graphics P4600
RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Xfce + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64