Except for some Emulators the CPU doesn't matter that much for rendering "3D Shit in HD". Put your Focus on a good graphics card
Homebrew Question Is GC/Wii emulation on the Switch a stupid idea? Because it sure looks that way...
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Except for some Emulators the CPU doesn't matter that much for rendering "3D Shit in HD". Put your Focus on a good graphics card
Except for some Emulators the CPU doesn't matter that much for rendering "3D Shit in HD". Put your Focus on a good graphics card
Okay that was a bad example.
I know the GPU is most important for that factor but I plan to get an RTX 2070 which is more than enough to take on that shit with ease.
On the other hand, a card like that is no match for fucking modded Minecraft unless you got a good CPU. Catch my drift?
Basically, what CPU motherboard combo is best value?
Also don’t just suck AMDs dick if the preformance is significantly worse. But if AMD actually is the way to go then tell me please.
Also don’t fucking tell me to buy an FPGA and piss on it until it becomes a fucking RTX 2080ti, I’m sick of all these computer [removed word]s trying to shove their knowledge in my face just to prove that they’re smarter than me. I just wanna know what fucking cpu to buy.
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Wait what?
The fastest you can afford/justify spending $$ on.
https://benchmarks.ul.com/compare/b...E&reverseOrder=true&types=DESKTOP&minRating=0
Im surprised that no one has brought up the Vulkan API. If I remember correctly dolphin on android got a huge boost in performance once it was able to take advantage of this. My understanding is that Vulkan in a sense more evenly distributes the load across multiple cores. I know that Switch has Vulkan but devs don't have access to it outside of the SDK (anyone more in the know please correct me if I'm wrong about that). Would this not make Dolphin emulation much more tenable were homebrew devs to gain access to it?
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If I was going Intel, I’d spend the extra money on going for a 9900k. The lack of hyper threading on the 9700k would be a deal breaker for me.
Vulkan or no vulkan, Dolphin is not up to the task. Someone needs to reverse engineer the emulator that is on the shield tv.
Which as per a previous comment on the thread (cant confirm this cause I honestly don't know for sure) is an emulator apparently written by a Dolphin dev
. Fine, lets assume your right, an "emulator" that is optimized using Vulkan API, I believe, would be more likely to run well than one that isn't...whether it is Dolphin, some proprietary emulator that was designed for shield or something else....I think it's important to note that people run Dolphin on shield TV and also since Shield TV is running a a version of Android (android TV) the emulator running on it, whether it is Dolphin or the proprietary software for those wii titles, is presumambly also taking advantage of Vulkan....my main point is that this particular API has been shown (youtube dolphin vulkan android) to improve performance despite hardware limitations and it is available to Swtich devs who have access to the SDK and therefore potentially to homebrew devs
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Is hyper threading even that important? I’m not going to be overclocking that bad. If hyper threading really is of importance, then I’ll just get CPU with less cores.
I mean, 600 bones for a CPU is crazy. I’ve also read stuff about the i9 fucking up with most high motherboards.
Might be fake news, but idk not willing to make such a fat investment for a potentially unstable product, yknow?
If using multithreaded applications, hyperthreading makes a big difference. I'd have a hard time choosing between a 6 core / 12 thread and 8 core / 8 thread CPU. I'd just spend the extra money for 8 core / 16 thread if it were me. For $100 extra it's a no brainer IMO.
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It's not like its overclock that much, it's still pretty powerful for a handheld
It costs more like $300.
If the Nvidia Sheild TV is as good as everyone here on the thread says, than it's literally the same power thats 50% cheaper.
It is portable though, so I'll give it that.
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Just because it isn't as powerful as the PS4 or Xbox One doesn't mean it's weak. Nintendo hasn't tried to make a console more powerful than competitors ever since the Wii days. Does that mean they're weak? Of course not
That $300 includes all the accessories and shit. The actual tablet part (which is what I was talking about) costs around $120-$150
And IT IS a powerful handheld
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I spent half an hour snooping around for somebody selling only the tablet and joy cons and the cheapest one I saw was $200 ($207 including shipping) and it was used and in "mediocre" condition.
If were talking about in-store, I've never seen a switch be sold for less than $250.
Maybe it's a regional thing but at least where I live it goes for much higher than that.
... Wouldn’t the switch be useless without a way to use it (I.e. joycons)?
The whole argument is that the switch is weak considering it’s value.
If the PS4 retailed at $10000, people would say it is weak.
The fact that the Nintendo switch is only somewhat powerful for $150 dollars and yet you need to throw down $100 more just to play it.
By that logic, saying the switch is weak makes perfect sense to me.
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