I'm looking to replace my HTPC, currently an old Ivy Bridge 3570k on a slowly dying H61 motherboard so not even overclocked. I use the Dolphin emulator and would like better performance, and have heard it runs better on newer architectures. It's also supposed to only really use two threads so was considering a higher clocked pentium like the G4600 (Kaby Lake).
I looked at the benchmarks at http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1027 and the numbers look all screwy to me. It's showing i3 7350K @ 4.2 GHz as slower than a Skylake i5 6600K @ 3.5 GHz, and even slower than Broadwell 5775C @ 3.3 GHz. In general 4C/8T does better than 2C/4T, which I do not expect to see with Dolphin. Is there a real advantage to having more than two cores here?
I looked at the benchmarks at http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1027 and the numbers look all screwy to me. It's showing i3 7350K @ 4.2 GHz as slower than a Skylake i5 6600K @ 3.5 GHz, and even slower than Broadwell 5775C @ 3.3 GHz. In general 4C/8T does better than 2C/4T, which I do not expect to see with Dolphin. Is there a real advantage to having more than two cores here?
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