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I've been playing on PCSX2 for quite awhile, and I like using the nightly dev builds. While reading the official guide (and the quickstart one) to setup PCSX2 I managed to miss the AVX and MMX version of GSdx, since the guide only covers SSE2, SSSE3 and SSE4.1. Today I updated my build and saw those. What is the AVX and MMX version for, and is it better than SSE4.1?
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04-18-2012, 04:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-18-2012, 04:23 PM by hyakki.)
AVX is good for gsdx in software mode (its also only available on second gen I series Intel processors.)
If you have a AMD processor then choose the sse2 plugin for best performance
If you have a modern Intel cpu (p4 - i7) use the SSE4.1 plugin for best performance
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AVX is the same as sse4.1 but taking advantage on software mode....AVX is only for 2nd gen intel-i and AMD-FX CPUs.
MMX is pretty old now since PentiumII nothing useful anymore since the arcade emulators e.g. NeoRageX and VideoCD player that uses MMX.
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Oh, I get it now. Thanks.
I'll stick to SSE4.1. =3
Does a plugin for SSE4.2 exist?
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From the current options this is the list from slowest to fastest:
SSE2 > SSSE3 > SSE4.1 > AVX
The difference is pretty small though.
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im using AVX is it faster than SSE4.1?
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04-18-2012, 06:00 PM
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Your question was answered in this post =/
(04-18-2012, 05:00 PM)rama Wrote: From the current options this is the list from slowest to fastest:
SSE2 > SSSE3 > SSE4.1 > AVX
The difference is pretty small though.
Assume you just didnt see it before making yours though
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