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Wow! Thank You for taking the time to answer all my questions...

If 3xIR is 1080, what additional benifits are gained with going with 4x?

This pretty much seals the deal
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-APU-Z-Series-ARM-Tegra-3,14114.html

Will be going with Intel, will have to do it in stages, more upgrades will be needed, will have to wait til mid summer to enjoy Dolphin then

Found a quad core Ivory Bridge
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504
will need some heavy duty cooling but has potential >/= 4.6GHz OC

Comes with onboard Intel HD Graphics 4000 with support for DirectX 11, OpenCL 1.1 and OpenGL 3.1. I'll have to play around and see if I can get it to do some low end gameplay til I can get the afford an NVidia...

Thanks again everyone

HD 4000 is roughly equivalent to the Xbox 360's Graphics card.
Actually, it is a little bit better in some cases.

Quote:Comes with onboard Intel HD Graphics 4000 with support for DirectX 11, OpenCL 1.1 and OpenGL 3.1. I'll have to play around and see if I can get it to do some low end gameplay til I can get the afford an NVidia...

Good enough for 1x IR but that's it. Grab yourself a decent video card if you can.

Quote:This pretty much seals the deal
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-APU...14114.html

Ah yes, I remember that. They're pretty f**ked either way to be honest.
This is their situation in the various markets right now:

Personal desktop market: They haven't made a competitive high performance desktop chip in years. Sandy/ivy bridge is obliterating what little market share they had left.

HTPC market: Llano is actually doing very well here. We'll see if that changes when the now long overdue ion 3 platform comes out but it looks like trinity will hold them afloat in this market.

Server market: Xeon has been years ahead of them in performance for years now, especially now.

Workstation market: They haven't made a competitive high performance desktop chip in years. Sandy/ivy bridge is obliterating what little market share they had left.

Low-end laptop: Doing ok only because of low cost.

High-end laptop: Don't make me laugh.

Nettop (small/cheap/low power desktops): Zacate is doing ok against ion 2.

Netbooks: Ontario is doing ok against ion 2.

Mainframe/supercomputer (enterprise systems): Xeon has been years ahead of them in performance for years now, especially now.

Tablets: Bobcat is doing very poorly here. No reason to even try since it would literally be impossible to make an x86 chip as energy efficient as arm microprocessors have become. Too much overhead.

Smartphones: No products yet. No reason to even try since it would literally be impossible to make an x86 chip as energy efficient as arm microprocessors have become. Too much overhead.

And it looks like haswell is poised to destroy the few markets that they are still doing ok in. I'm really worried about AMDs future at this point. Their stocks are posting record losses.

Expert opinion needed

Building new system, comparing 2 graphic cards, side by side comparison only difference is Memory interface of 192bit vs 256bit
How important is Memory interface to Dolphin

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125410 - $120
vs
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125363 - $230

Is the extra 64bit worth it for Dolphin?

Thanks

Depends on how high of settings you want.

Yes, basically. Also the 560 Ti has more CUDA cores than the 550 Ti. That's why there's a 120$ 1GB 550 Ti, and a 230$ 1GB 560 Ti. Basically the 560 Ti is better than a non Ti 560, a 550 Ti, a regular 550, a 540 and a 520 etc.. You main things with a GPU to work out its performance are its model number eg GTX 560 Ti or Radeon HD 6950, and memory type and size eg 1GB GDDR3 or 2GB GDDR5. They're simpler to go off than memory bandwidth. Also the 560 Ti has more CUDA cores than the 550 Ti.

Quote:only difference is Memory interface of 192bit vs 256bit

Did you read the specs of each card?

Quote: GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi)

Core Clock
900MHz (Std 822)

Shader Clock
1800MHz

CUDA Cores
384

Memory

Effective Memory Clock
4000MHz

Memory Size
1GB

Memory Interface
256-bit

Memory Type
GDDR5

Quote: GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi)

Core Clock
900MHz

Shader Clock
1800MHz

CUDA Cores
192

Memory

Effective Memory Clock
4100MHz

Memory Size
1GB

Memory Interface
192-bit

Memory Type
GDDR5

It has twice as many stream processors (or whatever nvidia is calling them now).

(05-15-2012, 05:30 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Did you read the specs of each card?

Quote: GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi)


CUDA Cores
384

Effective Memory Clock
4000MHz

Memory Interface
256-bit

Quote: GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi)

CUDA Cores
192

Effective Memory Clock
4100MHz

Memory Interface
192-bit

It has twice as many stream processors (or whatever nvidia is calling them now).

Sorry, I ignored the Memory Clock, but totally missed the CUDA cores..

Full speed here with IR set to x4. Using plugin dx11.
And OpenMP Texture Decoder enabled.
Screen resolution was set to 1920x1080 because it's a HD 3D TV.

Very nice picture quality here and no lags.

Tried Mario Galaxy 2 and Zelda Skyward and many more.

I'am using i7-2600k Clocked at 4,6GHz
And a ATI 6950 and 8GB RAM 1600MHz.

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