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    Phoronix: Dolphin GameCube/Wii Emulator Lands Its Vulkan Backend

    The past few months we've written a few times about the Dolphin Emulator working on a Vulkan back-end. Dolphin is an open-source project providing cross-platform emulation for Nintendo's GameCube and Wii games. That back-end has now been merged to the mainline code-base...

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    Damn these guys aren't kidding around implementing it this fast.

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    • #3
      Since dolphin is very CPU intensive on a single core it would be very interesting to see benchmarks of OpenGL vs Vulkan performance differences on a few games.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by johanb View Post
        Since dolphin is very CPU intensive on a single core it would be very interesting to see benchmarks of OpenGL vs Vulkan performance differences on a few games.
        This. Dolphin is a excellent test subject for Vulkan vs OpenGL performance IMO.

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        • #5
          ElectricPrism johanb unfortunately not aware of any automated capable dolphin tests.
          Michael Larabel
          https://www.michaellarabel.com/

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          • #6
            Michael it shouldn't be too hard to set up automated dolphin performance tests. You can use a lot of the TAS features like savestates and input playback.

            For me on NVidia Pascal, there is no noticeable difference between Vulkan and OpenGL.
            But I heard from AMD users that it's a quite nice speed increase for them.

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            • #7
              Just read the pull request. The author doesn't give any exact numbers, but the improvements he claim seems to be similar to other Vulkan/DX12 games.

              - Performance in my brief testing is slightly above OpenGL on nVidia
              - AMD seems roughly ~25% faster compared to OpenGL in some scenarios (apart from needing the dualsrc blend fallback)

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              • #8
                Gonna have to see if vulkan works on os x. I doubt it.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by labyrinth153 View Post
                  Gonna have to see if vulkan works on os x. I doubt it.
                  There is no Vulkan on OSX. Apple instead went with their own API.

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                  • #10
                    i tested the vulkan backend before its merge
                    on intel the performance is a bit lower, but its driver fault for not having hiz,guarband clipping...

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