12-14-2014, 09:59 PM
wondered how the x99 cpu 5820k goes up against the i5 4690k in the cpu chart heiarchy for dolphin?? does anyone here own the 5820k or any x99 cpu here?? considering multiple upgrade options this Christmas.
12-14-2014, 09:59 PM
12-14-2014, 10:27 PM
(12-14-2014, 09:59 PM)buffyvpsfan Wrote: [ -> ]wondered how the x99 cpu 5820k goes up against the i5 4690k in the cpu chart heiarchy for dolphin?? does anyone here own the 5820k or any x99 cpu here?? considering multiple upgrade options this Christmas.
5820k will be slower with default clocks (without overclocking), more than 4 real cores will not give any speedup in dolphin. Even 4 cores give a small speedup indirectly by freeing up resources compared to a dual core (dolphin is mainly a dual core app).
12-18-2014, 06:15 AM
Any plans or even, simply way to make dolphin use 4 cores? Seems like it'd be helpful for at least some games that need a lot slower settings to be emulated properly
12-18-2014, 07:58 AM
Nope. Because Dolphin's just emulating two main chips, both of which are sequential, it has to do everything in the same order as the games expect. in order to guarantee this when these emulated chips were split across multiple cores, there'd have to be so much code keeping the cores synchronised that it'd actually end up slower.