(01-30-2011, 11:51 AM)ryancollins Wrote: [ -> ] (01-30-2011, 04:03 AM)smackjack22 Wrote: [ -> ]How about YOU explain to me, why my new i7 @ 1.7 GHz (~2000 MIPS per 100% load per core -> ~12000 MIPS for 600% load) is twice as fast than my old P4 @ 2GHz (~1000 MIPS per 100% load -> ~500 MIPS for 50% load) even though my P4 is clearly "faster" by 300 MHz?
i7 has more cores and turbo boost
Did you see the "per 100% load" part?
A single core CPU can have up to 100% load, while for a dualcore it'd be 200% and so on.
Without this %-ranking, I wouldn't be able to accurately measure the power of a single core CPU, as the benchmark would never achieve a 100% load (let's not forget that Windows needs some MHz too)
Not to mention that Turbo boost alone won't make up for the +100% performance.
Also Turbo boost works best, when not all cores are loaded. In this benchmark they were clearly all busy (or else I wouldn't have got 12'000 MIPS @ 600%) which means that the clock rate would've been 1.8 GHz with Turbo boost... not exactly a good explanation, don't you think?
No, the correct answer was already given by NaturalViolence.
It's not the clock rate that makes the difference nor is it the number of cores, it's the architecture.
Quote:i7 has more cores and turbo boost
Neither of those significantly contribute to performance with dolphin.
Quote:3DFX was best
This we can agree on. God I miss them.
Quote:Faster is always good, as long as nothing is bottlenecking it.
^This sums it up very well.
Quote:that something "fast" must also be "good", which is wrong.
What? Be definition if a microprocessor is faster it is better. The whole purpose of a microprocessor is to process data and instructions as quickly as possible. Perhaps you're talking about energy efficiency? Which not everybody cares about. Or perhaps you're confusing "faster" with "higher clock rate"?
Quote:Communication over the internet can be confusing at times, you know?
Based on the status of this thread, that's quite apparent.
I originally told the topic creator to get an i5 2500 k and to overlcock it to 4.5 ghz if he cared to do anything more about the situation.Since i game at 2560x1600 i believe the gpu still has a big factor because games that are playable at 1920x1200 become really choppy when moving to 2560x1600.Maybe i am wrong but i won't know for sure since there are no benchamarks for wii emulation anywhere on the internet.
Oh, I see.
Yes, if you're playing with such high resolutions, then a better GPU will be useful.
When the resolution gets quite high, you'll need a lot of VRAM.
I'm sorry it came to these misunderstandings.
@smackjack22
PC games require an ok cpu and a great gpu at high resolutions. Resolution affects gpu load and vdram usage but not cpu load. Dolphin on the other hand is the exact opposite, as long as you leave SSAA and pixel lighting off it's fine with an ok gpu even at extremely high resolutions and vdram usage is very low. However you need a very powerful cpu for many games running on dolphin. This thread has officially confused the shit out of me.
Edit: Looking back on the first few pages of this thread your original response was perfect. But then the thread got derailed by nolonars first post.