I never said "i5 480M is horrible for most games"
I said it's slow for most games . By all mean , light weight games can run full speed , non demanding game like Brawl can't be run at full speed unless I use 1xIR
Most games can run full speed with older Dolphin version like Dolphin 3.5 145 . Older Dolphin version is not recommended according to the forum rule
Btw , base on my experience on this forum . Every i3 2310M owner always post "Dolphin run slow" or sth like that
Latest versions are currently the fastest, there's no excuse for old versions.
A 2310M is much better than my Athlon II X2 220, and I currently have no problems with SSBM (except for lag in moments where it doesn't really matter if there's lag anyways), or, really, most other games I have. I have no games currently ripped which I cannot run with the current version of Dolphin, which is impressive because I have most of my personal library and a tiny bit of the family library ripped, and am using a CPU that was completely hopeless around a year ago.
Quote:A 2310M is much better than my Athlon II X2 220,
It is not . It's the opposite , your Athlon is way faster and i'm 100% sure about this
In fact , Athlon X2 250 @ 3.0GHz is almost on par with i5 480M @ 2.9GHz
The 220 isn't a 250. It's not Regor, it's Deneb with intensely-gimped caches and only two cores. The per-clock performance difference between a 250 and my 220 is pretty big. I'd say my 220 at 3.5 is almost as good as a 250 at 3.0, but only with my special sort of optimized overclocking that covers everything properly, that seems to be shunned far too often by overclockers in the pursuit of bigger numbers on the core.
Sandy Bridge might be 20% faster that Nehalem in most benchmark (include Single-threaded Benchmark)
But in Dolphin Benchmark , the number of improvement is less than 5%
Haswell is barely faster than Ivy Bridge in most benchmark
Then again , the number of improvement is 30%
In this case , even "single threaded benchmark" can't be trusted
Sandy bridge is much faster than Nehalem, Nehalem is faster than Phenom II, Phenom II is basically the faster version of what I have. Also, I've done some tests myself, and compared my results all over what is there of the CPU benchmark graph, and I came to the conclusion that my CPU is not better than a Sandy Bridge CPU at 1.4GHz lower clock. Almost definitely.
kinkinkijkin Wrote:Sandy bridge is much faster than Nehalem
That has nothing to do with Dolphin anyway
I requote this
myself Wrote:You guy should look at Dolphin benchmark . i5 750 @ 3.7GHz / i5 760 @ 3.8GHz beat i5 2500k @ 3.4GHz / i7 2600k @ 3.4GHz .
kinkinkijkin Wrote:I came to the conclusion that my CPU is not better than a Sandy Bridge CPU at 1.4GHz lower clock
That's hard to believe .
Wait, actually, ignore most of what I said about my CPU being crap, after looking at that chart the results of a certain test that really closely resembles my current situation came back into my mind and I remembered that I found that I managed to get this thing to perform almost on-sync with the i7-2620m, I'm slightly embarrased that I dragged it on this long because I forgot that little thing
nevermind, then
This thread has been brought to my attention by someone here.
Based on the benchmarking data the athlon 220 @ 3.4GHz will be about 15% faster than the i3 2310m on average. Simply take the times of comparable cpus on the table, stick it in the denominator of a fraction under 1, and multiply it by the inverse ratio of the clock rates. Then compare the resulting two numbers.
While it's true that sandy bridge isn't much faster than nehalem in dolphin both sandy bridge and nehalem are A LOT faster than wolfdale or regor clock for clock. More than it other apps. Which helps account for the difference. In fact despite nehalem being about the same IPC as sandy bridge in dolphin the difference in IPC between sandy bridge and wolfdale is about the same as in other apps. This is because the IPC difference between nelahem and wolfdale is about twice as high as in most other apps which completely makes up for the lack of difference between nehalem and sandy bridge. This pattern was repeated again with ivy bridge/haswell. It seems that dolphin only benefits from architectural improvements to the frontend of the pipeline. But benefits so much from them that it easily makes up for the lack of improvement in previous generations when present.
Edit: And now it's resolved without my help, figures.
Edit 2: Note to future self. Stop responding to PMs.
I used to think Athlon X2 is much worse than Wolfdale but @Nintendo Maniac 64 and other people proved that I was wrong completely lol
Oops , I meant Brisbane Athlon X2 64