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Emulation of 5th gen and older consoles - how much GPU is enough?

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kahlid74:

The BEEEEESSSS.  Damn your avatar picture.


So the core i5 is really the go to guy if you want to make sure you never experience any issues.  High level what you have should be good to go but I might look towards grabbing a cheap graphics card too, like a GT620 or something along those lines.

05SRT4:

I have an Q6600 chip and a Radeon HD 4670 and those emulators run flawlessly on my machine. I remember my P4 (Basic Dell PC) ran N64 games fine.

sandheaver:

Emulation happens in the CPU of your machine, not the GPU.  Yes, the games are being displayed, but that doesn't mean the emulation is happening in the GPU.  I believe HLSL effects are GPU bound, though, so if you're going to enable the NTSC features of HLSL then you would probably want to invest in a beefy GPU.

This is for MAME/MESS, anyway.  I'm sure there are probably some high-level emulators that render via the GPU, but MAME & MESS don't, at least not as a natively written game would.

kahlid74:


--- Quote from: sandheaver on May 03, 2013, 02:17:07 pm ---Emulation happens in the CPU of your machine, not the GPU.  Yes, the games are being displayed, but that doesn't mean the emulation is happening in the GPU.  I believe HLSL effects are GPU bound, though, so if you're going to enable the NTSC features of HLSL then you would probably want to invest in a beefy GPU.

This is for MAME/MESS, anyway.  I'm sure there are probably some high-level emulators that render via the GPU, but MAME & MESS don't, at least not as a natively written game would.

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Correct, for MAME/MESS it is CPU but for 5th gen emulators, which is the subject of his post, GPU is relevant.  GPU isn't more relevant than CPU but it is Still relevant.   You will see a noticeable different in Goldeneye on N64 emulators with a Geforce GT620 than Intel HD4000.

sandheaver:


--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 06, 2013, 09:58:58 am ---Correct, for MAME/MESS it is CPU but for 5th gen emulators, which is the subject of his post, GPU is relevant.  GPU isn't more relevant than CPU but it is Still relevant.   You will see a noticeable different in Goldeneye on N64 emulators with a Geforce GT620 than Intel HD4000.

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Ah, I misread.  I thought he meant emulation of 5th generation games, not 5 gen emulators.  Maybe I'm still reading it wrong.  Probably stems from the fact that I dunno what generation the 5th generation is, or if MESS supports any of them.

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