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The Dolphin emulator appears to be very CPU intensive as opposed to using the full power of the graphics card. Would Dolphin benefit from using the graphics card as a cuda based processor to squeeze some extra power out?

It's up to devs

"Squeeze some power out?" Doing what? There's nothing that Dolphin does except possibly texture conversion, which hardly is a bottleneck, that is CUDA-friendly. Using CUDA to emulate the PowerPC for example would be madness. Barely theoretically possible and would be horribly slow.

someone had made the same question at pcsx2 forums and their answer was no , the time it would take for the data to go from memory to video ram would make the emu slower, so as ector said it's a NO.

Quote:The Dolphin emulator appears to be very CPU intensive as opposed to using the full power of the graphics card. Would Dolphin benefit from using the graphics card as a cuda based processor to squeeze some extra power out?

CUDA is only useful for parallel processing, e.g physics, graphics, and image effects- working on lots of data at the same time. GC/Wii CPU and DSP are serial processors, so CUDA won't be able to help there.