Console Emulators: Our Newest Benchmark
by Derek Wilson on March 3, 2004 11:33 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
The Testing Setup
| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | AMD Athlon 64 3000+ AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz EE Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Intel Pentium 4 3.2EGHz |
| RAM: | 2 x 512Mb OCZ 3500 Platinum Ltd |
| Hard Drive(s): | Seagate 120GB 7200 RPM (8MB Buffer) |
| Video AGP & IDE Bus Master Drivers: | VIA Hyperion 4.51 (12/02/03) Intel Chipset Drivers |
| Video Card(s): | Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 XT ATI Radeon 9600 XT NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 |
| Video Drivers: | ATI Catalyst 4.2 NVIDIA ForceWare 56.56 (WHQL) |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
| Motherboards: | Intel D875PBZ (Intel 875P Chipset) FIC K8-800T (VIA K8T800 Chipset) |
The games that we tested are Final Fantasy IX and Gran Turismo 2 (along with a preview of things to come in The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker).
The only important issue to note when looking at the performance data is that FRAPS reports sometimes framerates that are between 50% and 25% of what the plugin reports. From what we understand, the game sees between two and four vblank interrupts before it draws one screen (meaning the game doesn't update the screen on every vblank). For Final Fantasy IX, we generally see a 25% framerate during MDEC playback, 30% while traveling the world map, 50% when walking around off the world map, and 100% when in a battle scene or menu system. Please keep this in mind as FRAPS might be reporting 30fps at points, but the game could still be running at full speed. We will point out these differences again on the test pages.
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Cygni - Thursday, March 4, 2004 - link
I didnt see this one commin! Cool idea guys. Ive never really seen this done to any extent on a hardware site before.gaidin123 - Thursday, March 4, 2004 - link
ePSXe is pretty much the standard if you are trying to play original Playstation games. Any modern system can run them pretty much full speed but I think this is just yet another piece of a neverending puzzle in comparing different graphics cards. Some people will find data like this important.I found ePSXe a while back and replayed Chrono Cross, one of the best RPGs out there imho. ePSXe runs pretty well on my laptop with the Intel 855 onboard graphics and it would be nice to know how the emulator runs on integrated graphics chipsets/laptops (mini-itx boards, onboard Via, Intel, Sis, Ati, nVidia chipsets) in addition to normal cards like the ones tested here.
Gaidin
Souka - Thursday, March 4, 2004 - link
*doh*Wonder how many flames this thread will get? :)
pxc - Thursday, March 4, 2004 - link
April Fools day came almost a month early this year?apkwebs - Friday, August 24, 2018 - link
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