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Could Dolphin take advantage of Cuda? - Toxicshadow - 05-05-2009
The Dolphin emulator appears to be very CPU intensive as opposed to using the full power of the graphics card. Would Dolphin benefit from using the graphics card as a cuda based processor to squeeze some extra power out?
RE: Could Dolphin take advantage of Cuda? - nosound97 - 05-05-2009
It's up to devs
RE: Could Dolphin take advantage of Cuda? - ector - 05-05-2009
"Squeeze some power out?" Doing what? There's nothing that Dolphin does except possibly texture conversion, which hardly is a bottleneck, that is CUDA-friendly. Using CUDA to emulate the PowerPC for example would be madness. Barely theoretically possible and would be horribly slow.
RE: Could Dolphin take advantage of Cuda? - LuisR14 - 05-05-2009
someone had made the same question at pcsx2 forums and their answer was no
, the time it would take for the data to go from memory to video ram would make the emu slower, so as ector said it's a NO.
RE: Could Dolphin take advantage of Cuda? - DannyDude170 - 05-07-2009
Quote:The Dolphin emulator appears to be very CPU intensive as opposed to using the full power of the graphics card. Would Dolphin benefit from using the graphics card as a cuda based processor to squeeze some extra power out?CUDA is only useful for parallel processing, e.g physics, graphics, and image effects- working on lots of data at the same time. GC/Wii CPU and DSP are serial processors, so CUDA won't be able to help there.