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Sandy bridge cpu's - Prutter - 01-05-2011

too early to say what they will bring for dolphin ?
or with this new core , do you coders have to start all over again ?



RE: Sandy bridge cpu's - skid - 01-05-2011

Too early to say. Sandy Bridge has potential to speed up the graphics emulation if anything.


RE: Sandy bridge cpu's - tuanming - 01-06-2011

I've seen the reviews for Sandy Bridge and they looks very promising to say the least.

More instruction-per-clock, better cache, more efficient cpu architecture, built-in IGP is capable of gaming at HD 5450 performance level, and more. Basically, you get the high-end performance level of the LGA 1366 for a fraction of the price, but I can't say the same for the LGA 1155 motherboards.


RE: Sandy bridge cpu's - Squall Leonhart - 01-06-2011

at the same clocks the 980X still performs better.


RE: Sandy bridge cpu's - tuanming - 01-06-2011

6 core vs 4 core.


RE: Sandy bridge cpu's - Gundark - 01-06-2011

6 cores means nothing to Dolphin. Better single threaded performance will benefit emulation.


RE: Sandy bridge cpu's - NaturalViolence - 01-06-2011

Quote:at the same clocks the 980X still performs better.

In just multithreaded applications or single threaded as well?


RE: Sandy bridge cpu's - Squall Leonhart - 01-06-2011

(01-06-2011, 08:39 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:
Quote:at the same clocks the 980X still performs better.

In just multithreaded applications or single threaded as well?

both, and it seems 2011 will see some more 1366 processors yet.


RE: Sandy bridge cpu's - inteGReddy - 01-07-2011

it seems to me that dolphin wants raw power. the only thing i have ever seen benefit dolphin is simply clock speed. my friend bought a new i7 and my oced phenom 965 blows the doors off of his dolphin speeds.


RE: Sandy bridge cpu's - Starscream - 01-07-2011

That is for the state of Dolphin right now, the needed specs will go down as time goes on in my opinion. I'm not saying you will be able to play Mario Galaxy on a single core cpu, but the specs will go down slightly with time.