Save up and get an i5 or stick with what I have?

[Techhog]

It's not that there's 0 optimization for AMD. It's well known that single-thread performance on FX processors lags significantly behind Intel's offerings. Clock for clock, it's at Phenom II levels, which, according to testing I've done, is about 60% of Haswell's performance.

I'm not too familiar with emulation so I don't know how easy it would be to write a better threaded emulator.

Yes, but the person who made Dolphin is claiming an even bigger gap than that, which is crazy.

 

[Yuriman]

I'm guessing they also use the Intel compiler for their general-public builds.

 

[jhu]

I'm guessing they also use the Intel compiler for their general-public builds.

There's also the Linux and Mac binaries (gcc and llvm, respectively).

 

[blake0812]

So there's nothing wrong with my CPU? Maybe I should wait for later builds then...

 

[jhu]

So there's nothing wrong with my CPU? Maybe I should wait for later builds then...

There's nothing inherently wrong with your CPU: it's doing what it was designed to do. It just has lower single-thread performance than the competition, which apparently Dolphin and the PS2 emulators require for generally accepted good performance.

 

[Loser Gamer]

Sounds like your game would love this chip

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117446

Intel Core i3-4370 Haswell Dual-Core 3.8GHz

 

[MiddleOfTheRoad]

The performance is good, I can run Crysis maxed (my phenom II had stuttering problems with it). I'm just not sure if it's because how Dolphin is coded that it's slow or if it's my hardware.

It's definitely the software in this case. Dolphin has a heavy Intel bias -- I only run Dolphin on my 3770k. But an FX-6300 will thrive on heavy multiplayer games like 64 Player Battlefield 4, for example. It really depends on what type of games your are going to play.

 

[MiddleOfTheRoad]

There's nothing inherently wrong with your CPU: it's doing what it was designed to do. It just has lower single-thread performance than the competition, which apparently Dolphin and the PS2 emulators require for generally accepted good performance.

If there is a Linux build of Dolphin -- I'd recommend testing that. In my experience, the FX CPU's perform much better under Linux. I got about a 30% improvement on the World Community Grid by simply switching from Windows 7 to Ubuntu with my FX-8320. Although don't bother if you are running a Radeon, their drivers suck under Linux. But if you are running an Nvidia card, you should see a boost in performance.

 

[jhu]

If there is a Linux build of Dolphin -- I'd recommend testing that. In my experience, the FX CPU's perform much better under Linux. I got about a 30% improvement on the World Community Grid by simply switching from Windows 7 to Ubuntu with my FX-8320. Although don't bother if you are running a Radeon, their drivers suck under Linux. But if you are running an Nvidia card, you should see a boost in performance.

Dolphin isn't very threaded. Single-thread performance is what matters. See here for people running it on Linux with FX processors. It's not pretty.