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I don't think anyone's actually certain why. There's a lot of things better about Haswell, but none of them really strike me as reasons it could be 30%+ faster at Dolphin despite being ~10-15% faster at everything else!

I see. Oh well, may want to go ahead and upgrade soon then. I built my current rig for the sole purpose of getting the most out of Dolphin and PCSX2, and now I find out that Ivy Bridge isn't the bees knees. Great.

i7 4790k 4.7GHz @ 1.23v
Two R9 270x CrossfireX 

Also, is there an easy way to force the task to run at high priority? It'd help with scores.

(01-25-2015, 06:05 PM)Fiora Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think anyone's actually certain why. There's a lot of things better about Haswell, but none of them really strike me as reasons it could be 30%+ faster at Dolphin despite being ~10-15% faster at everything else!

It must be a combination of things.

http://emulators.com/docs/nx36_haswell_262.htm

According to this guy who works on bochs, it's mostly due to the 4th alu(and branch unit), zero latency register moves and other tweaks. Seems like a lot of the new instructions might help a lot too.


Anyway, my G3258 at 4.2GHz finishes in 5 minutes 2 seconds.

(01-26-2015, 02:15 PM)EvilWiffles Wrote: [ -> ]Also, is there an easy way to force the task to run at high priority? It'd help with scores.

I doubt it would make a real difference, unless you're running other programs at the same time, in which case you'd be getting a worse score anyway.

The reasons an emulator is faster might differ a lot from other programs; for example, wider vectors aren't useful for Dolphin.

Umm... why is povray still being used? It's been superceded by a newer benchmark...

The only reason I never made a thread with said new benchmark is because I was holding out for it to possibly be included in the official 5.0 version or whatever the next full version is called.

More info:
https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/is...d=6538#c22

(01-26-2015, 03:48 PM)dogen Wrote: [ -> ]Anyway, my G3258 at 4.2GHz finishes in 5 minutes 2 seconds.

So, we have one that overclocked it. I think OP will not accept this without screenshot, though.

http://imgur.com/oTvSwnU

i5-4670K with a small OC to 3.8
5m 36s total time

This just crashes for me on a fresh windows 8.1 installation. I forget what I'm supposed to install to fix this.

i5-4440 @ 3.1GHz + GTX 980