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Anyone running an APU from AMD?
jekbrown:
I'm considering running one of these CPU/GPU chips in my new MAME cabinet that I am still in the planning stages of. The monitor will be an LCD, so I'll prolly be manipulating the video a bit with scan lines and scaling and crap like that. Anyone using an APU? Hows the performance? Up to the job? My cabinet will mostly feature late 80s - 90s arcade games. I'm not all that interested in the newer stuff aside from a few shooters. Mainly just wondering how appropriate of a CPU/GPU option this is for MAME systems...
jekbrown:
...maybe these are to new for a MAME forum...I know a lot of you guys use older harder or hand-me-down parts from primary PCs in the house. :(
doom216:
I have built a pc for a client that had one of these. He chose the a8 3850 for the cpu, runs at 2.9 ghz. As with all builds I test them with various programs for stability. I tested it with mameUI64 and ran through a few fighters like mvsc, mk2, mk1 etc, all ran well with vsync and tripple buffer but no hlsl. The APU in these chips does not have enough grunt to use it. Personally, I show a 45-52% Gpu load with all hlsl feature I could think of and thats on a GTX 570. Hope this helped you.
jekbrown:
Just how important is hlsl? I mean, it doesn't seem like all that many people here are using $300+ gfx cards for the MAME set up... ???
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: jekbrown on August 14, 2011, 08:39:08 pm ---Just how important is hlsl? I mean, it doesn't seem like all that many people here are using $300+ gfx cards for the MAME set up... ???
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That's because MAME doesn't actually depend on the GPU outside of a basic buffer. Most (all?) of the heavy rendering work is done on the CPU.