Will AMD FX-8300 and AMD RX560 be enough to run GameCube and Wii games smoothly?

[mstreurman]

(03-20-2018, 08:22 PM)MikroTik Wrote: My current system's specification is

CPU : AMD FX-8300
RAM : 32GB
GPU : AMD HD6450

HD6450 is an ancient GPU that is no good for gaming.

If I replaced HD6450 with AMD RX560 2GB, would I be able to run every GameCube and Wii game on dolphin smoothly?

Or, should I wait a bit longer and build a new PC?

Absolutely not every game, because there are still games out there that run slow on the latest and greatest machines.

Most importantly:
Use Vulkan or D3D not OpenGL for your graphics back-end... OpenGL is notoriously slow on AMD GPU's

For CPU it doesn't really matter how many cores you have since Dolphin only uses 2 cores maximum. More important is the Single Thread Perfomance or STP and this is what mostly affects the speed in Dolphin or any Emulator. AMD processors are also known in the community for having a low STP compared to Intel on the same generation, this has somewhat been solved by the Zen architecture in the latest AMD Ryzen CPU's. Having said this... The CPU is probably strong enough to run most games quite smoothly.