So I looked up more about Carrizo and realized that "Excavator is expected to support new instructions such as AVX2, BMI2 and RDRAND." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavator_(...hitecture) )
The main thing that caught my eye here was "AVX2." I've seen a lot of people talking about AVX2 on Dolphin's GitHub page and about how useful it is and I'm wondering - could this combined with HSA offer a considerable increase in performance in Dolphin over Kaveri? I know that AVX2 is quite important to Dolphin (although I'm not savvy enough about it to know exactly why) and HSA allows the GPU and CPU cores to work together on the same tasks (which would naturally result in a significant performance increase in single-threaded and dual-threaded applications.) So what do you all think?
EDIT: Reposted this because I thought the poll would cause a bit of a row
The main thing that caught my eye here was "AVX2." I've seen a lot of people talking about AVX2 on Dolphin's GitHub page and about how useful it is and I'm wondering - could this combined with HSA offer a considerable increase in performance in Dolphin over Kaveri? I know that AVX2 is quite important to Dolphin (although I'm not savvy enough about it to know exactly why) and HSA allows the GPU and CPU cores to work together on the same tasks (which would naturally result in a significant performance increase in single-threaded and dual-threaded applications.) So what do you all think?
EDIT: Reposted this because I thought the poll would cause a bit of a row
[CPU - AMD Athlon X4 750K] [GPU - AMD Radeon HD 7770] [RAM - 8GB @ 1866MHz]