Hello, I was thinking of getting the new GPD XD plus game device. Has any Member or developer on here Heard about this and will dolphin emulator perform well, specs are included below.
It features a 5” Touchscreen, two analogue joysticks, a D-Pad and ten gaming buttons.
It features a powerful MT8176+PowerVR Hexa-core processor, 4GB RAM, 32Gb Storage and runs Android 7.
It also features Vulkan Engine support for even greater performance increases in supported games and emulators.
https://droidbox.co.uk/gpd-xd-plus-droidbox-playon-best-mini-handheld-games-tablet-console-android-retro.html
Firstly, the hardware is pretty old and a modern phone would be better, secondly and more importantly I think PowerVR GPUs are really bad. Overall it's probably not any good for Dolphin which is much more demanding than other emulators, which would probably work fine on this device.
With these two Cortex A72 @2.1GHz will perform arround Snapdragon 650 running emulators. I don't know about PowerVR, might impact the performance if drivers aren't good enough.
I personally think the PowerVR drivers are pretty good
But the mt8176 is only a 2 cluster rogue, so it's not actually that fast. The arm a72s are pretty good for Dolphin, assuming if it can avoid thermally throttling, which depends on the specific design of the product not the soc so can't comment on it.
But it's good they're (apparently) shipping vulkan now - the first ones they shipped didn't have that enabled (for some reason). But, assuming they're shipping relatively recent drivers, it should all work with dolphin. If someone does end up getting one and finding a graphics issue, please let me know
(05-17-2018, 02:24 AM)Guilherme Wrote: [ -> ]I found these two videos of GPD XD+ running Dolphin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s045AUMVCgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl-NuZTMxMQ
The first one has an acceptable performance for its hardware running MGS, but in the last it looks too slow, something must be wrong.
That doesn't seem too odd to me. Keep in mind that Super Mario Sunshine and Zelda: Wind Waker use both EFB copies to RAM and EFB access from CPU (unless you manually override those settings in a game INI – for instance, you can get away with not having EFB copies to RAM in Zelda: Wind Waker as long as you don't use the Pictobox).
(05-17-2018, 01:16 AM)JonnyH Wrote: [ -> ]I personally think the PowerVR drivers are pretty good
But the mt8176 is only a 2 cluster rogue, so it's not actually that fast. The arm a72s are pretty good for Dolphin, assuming if it can avoid thermally throttling, which depends on the specific design of the product not the soc so can't comment on it.
But it's good they're (apparently) shipping vulkan now - the first ones they shipped didn't have that enabled (for some reason). But, assuming they're shipping relatively recent drivers, it should all work with dolphin. If someone does end up getting one and finding a graphics issue, please let me know
This SoC looks buggy with RE4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-W447TMnSA (watch after 10:40)
(05-17-2018, 02:34 AM)Guilherme Wrote: [ -> ]This SoC looks buggy with RE4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-W447TMnSA (watch after 10:40)
You can see it's failing to compile the shaders - I can assure you that last time I tried on that everything was working...
Though looking at the video it seems he's using an ancient version of dolphin - 5.0-1589 - so likely there's all kinds of issues that have been fixed since, as that was well before the versions I started testing. That also likely makes all the 'testing' shown invalid.
Yeah, the video is really a little old. Fine then!
(05-17-2018, 02:58 AM)Guilherme Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, the video is really a little old. Fine then!
It's only Feb 2018 - that build is much older than what was available then (and the versions I tested against the PVR driver with).
Not sure if all those fixes would be pulled in to that build - they were backported to the 1.7 branch, but can't remember which build, so it may be from before that, but newer drivers should be fine.