Unsadisfactory frame rate. Software, hardware or setting?

[Nyrii]

(04-10-2014, 04:40 PM)tuanming Wrote: Depending on the games, AMD cards run like crap and could bottleneck your cpu. For example, the R9 290x 4GB gave me lower fps in Pokemon Colosseum compared to my GTX 580 3GB. If you can't get full speed in Pokemon Colosseum then it's an AMD issue. I'm getting beyond full speed in that game.

And if that's the case would it affect Dolphin in its entirety or individual games on it? As I recall kinkinkijkin said he is getting better performance with his inferior amd.