It's not so it can 'now' be played on mobile devices, but instead so that when there are mobile devices capable of running Dolphin, Dolphin will be capable of running on them. High-power low portability ARM devices are just a nice test platform in the mean time.
At the end of the day nothing is full speed on any non-tegra devices, with the exception of extremely lightweight games. Between Qualcomm or chipsets with Mali GPU's, the drivers kill performance. Right now testing dolphin is the most feasible option but seriously playing games is a bit of a stretch. That being said the Shield TV is turning into a great easy option for dolphin emulation on a closed system with the recent JIT enhancements.
And yet there's 2-3 people that come on IRC nearly every day asking if there's any improvements yet. >.>
(10-08-2015, 03:35 AM)helios747 Wrote: [ -> ]And yet there's 2-3 people that come on IRC nearly every day asking if there's any improvements yet. >.>
Ah well brainwashing is a wonderful thing. People have been trained to believe Qualcomm is putting out a top tier product that is fleshed out, and they believe that the applications are at fault for any issues.
(10-08-2015, 07:57 AM)Nintonito Wrote: [ -> ] (10-08-2015, 03:35 AM)helios747 Wrote: [ -> ]And yet there's 2-3 people that come on IRC nearly every day asking if there's any improvements yet. >.>
Ah well brainwashing is a wonderful thing. People have been trained to believe Qualcomm is putting out a top tier product that is fleshed out, and they believe that the applications are at fault for any issues.
I thought that for a phone Qualcomm made semi decent mobile gpus that were better than Mali , power vr , Intel when it came to real world performance.
Also they have been known to manufacture custom arm CPU's which were more suited to mobile use in comparison to competitors.
Of course I know nothing of the hardware specifics just what I have experienced from owning many devices.
Krait CPU's are great at idling and doing very little. But the top end efficiency is complete garbage, with the CPU's using a ton more power and generating more heat than the competition. The Snapdragon 800 especially was known for throttling and only capable of burst work because of rampant heat generation (prior to android 5.1 Qualcomm actually had 2 cores disabled in their governor to cheat heat generation. The Adreno series isn't so bad but they favor ALU heavily which is odd because most mobile apps/games love fill rate (especially apps with iOS versions). Performance wise they are competitive parts, but bad drivers and Qualcomm's extreme secrecy on architecture details means developers are often optimizing blind. From my experience Qualcomm is acceptable for casual users, but any halfway power user should avoid them like the plague.
(10-10-2015, 01:05 AM)Nintonito Wrote: [ -> ]Krait CPU's are great at idling and doing very little. But the top end efficiency is complete garbage, with the CPU's using a ton more power and generating more heat than the competition. The Snapdragon 800 especially was known for throttling and only capable of burst work because of rampant heat generation (prior to android 5.1 Qualcomm actually had 2 cores disabled in their governor to cheat heat generation. The Adreno series isn't so bad but they favor ALU heavily which is odd because most mobile apps/games love fill rate (especially apps with iOS versions). Performance wise they are competitive parts, but bad drivers and Qualcomm's extreme secrecy on architecture details means developers are often optimizing blind. From my experience Qualcomm is acceptable for casual users, but any halfway power user should avoid them like the plague.
Freedreno needs to hurry up ;_;
By the time freedreno is a factor Qualcomm will be shipping Kyro, and fingers crossed its not like Krait. Otherwise better drivers won't help if it has terrible top end efficiency and low IPC.
Freedreno already supports GLES 3.0 also a bunch of random extensions that Dolphin can use.
It seems to do fairly well, even has better rendering quality than the proprietary driver.
(10-10-2015, 07:14 AM)Sonicadvance1 Wrote: [ -> ]Freedreno already supports GLES 3.0 also a bunch of random extensions that Dolphin can use.
It seems to do fairly well, even has better rendering quality than the proprietary driver.
I thought GLES 3.2 would be the end game for Dolphin GLES?