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I get that there are technical differences between the two CPUs (ie more cores, L2/L3 Cache etc), however my question is which technical detail of the i5-3570 helps make for better pcsx2 performance than the i3-4330? Being that they are essentially the same clock speed and being that pcsx2 only uses two cores.
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PCSX2 can use more than 2 cores using the mtVU speedhack or software model.
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(01-24-2014, 10:04 PM)hiimdoug Wrote: I get that there are technical differences between the two CPUs (ie more cores, L2/L3 Cache etc), however my question is which technical detail of the i5-3570 helps make for better pcsx2 performance than the i3-4330? Being that they are essentially the same clock speed and being that pcsx2 only uses two cores.
With the MTVU speedhack pcsx2 can use 3 cores. Then the 4th core could be used by background processes.
Plus quite a few games require software mode, which can use 4 cores.
The Quad core will be a lot faster in general, with a few exceptions ofcourse.
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Haswell seems to perform much better than Ivy Bridge in PCSX2 (+15% at the same frequency I think), so the i3 might not be a bad choice...
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(01-24-2014, 10:40 PM)||dav1de|| Wrote: Haswell seems to perform much better than Ivy Bridge in PCSX2 (+15% at the same frequency I think), so the i3 might not be a bad choice...
The whole extra core from MTVU brings much more than 15%. On compatible games.
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MTVU does work with hyperthreading. Not as good as a physical core, but the results are still good.
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My main source for determining how well stuff will work in PCSX2 says to me that they will be pretty close in performance. Both have exception STP. > 2000
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