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(05-06-2013, 11:17 PM)omega59 Wrote: [ -> ]or is there not enough evidence that 7XXX series is bad for Dolphin?

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omega59 Wrote:Not to bring this topic back but I am in need of a new card very soon and I was looking at a Radeon HD 7 series. So what was the conclusion to this. are the 7xxx series bad for Dolphin or is there not enough evidence that it just might be his PC and or settings in Dolphin?

This was a very real problem for many dolphin users, not just the OP of this thread. The issue with throttling has since been fixed by newer drivers but the hd 7xxx cards still don't perform as well as comparable nvidia cards with the d3d11 backend. But I doubt the situation is as bad as the OPs experience these days. I'm also willing to bet that the "issue" is only present with the vliw5 based cards (7700 series and below) since dolphins d3d11 shaders are likely not ideal for that microarchitecture. Obviously we would need an extensive GPU benchmark to be sure, which we don't have.

Also do remember that the d3d11 backend is one of three hardware accelerated backends for dolphin. Both other backends perform competitively on the HD 7000 series cards.

Oh and I would appreciate it if you removed that .gif from your signature. It's extremely irritating to see a flickering image next to the text that you're trying to read.

If you were going to upgrade to an Nvidia series GPU, which recent model would you recommend then, The most I can spend is $400 give or take. Bc there are so many series out there to choose from, but at the same time many are not too far away from my current GPU of 850mhz, so I'm not sure if it is worth to spend the cash on a new card. Kind of on the fence kind of thing.

btw, hope my new sig doesn't bother you now lol.

Clock rate has extremely little to do with a GPUs performance. Any decent graphics card is going to be dozens of times faster than your Intel HD 3000 despite having a similar clock rate.

Anything above a GTX 650 TI is overkill for dolphin so take your pick. I have a GTX 660 personally and it suits my needs just fine. It costs around $200-230. For around $300 you can get a GTX 660 TI and $370-420 will buy you a GTX 670. Both will only improve performance when running very demanding PC games at very high settings.

omega59 Wrote:btw, hope my new sig doesn't bother you now lol.

Thanks. It's doesn't but I still think it's odd to use a letterboxed image in a sig.

will those models play recent games well too?
my sig is ws bc dolphin took it ws.

omega59 Wrote:will those models play recent games well too?

Yes. What is your screen resolution?

omega59 Wrote:my sig is ws bc dolphin took it ws.

Whatever software you used to resize it will also be able to crop out the black bars.

(05-09-2013, 10:13 AM)omega59 Wrote: [ -> ]will those models play recent games well too?

Of course they will. For example 660 Ti is just fine

I'm looking at this one,
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 TI+ 915MHZ 3GB 6.0GHZ GDDR5 SLI 2xDVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E DX11 Video Card.

It's fine. Stop fretting about it and just buy one. EVGA is a good brand.

Just started using Dolphin and have been having problems with my 7750 just not running to what I would consider "par". I have all the latest drivers for it, and I even tried the experimental drivers with no luck. It seems as though even on the lowest IR I can't run any of my Game cube games at a constant 60 FPS. I haven't even tried Wii yet since my DVD drive doesn't read the disks. I can get about 40-60 in Super Smash Bros Melee but with 4 players it drops to 20ish. I'm running nothing in the background, disabled aero, and windows was just installed on the PC. Has anyone figured out if there's something you can do to fix this issue or is this just a ditch the card and buy new situation? I just got the card in march and I've noticed problems running other games as well. Random AMD Driver crashes seem to happen so I've been.. pretty frustrated trying to fix it. The only thing that helped was underclocking the GPU. lol.