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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by sudosysgen on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:17PM (#23604785)
I can emulate a PS3 on my computer with better graphics at higher framerates, including GPU emulation.

It's not impressive at all.

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by Wowfunhappy on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:24PM (#23604926)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a PS4/XB1 game, not a PS360 game.

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Edit 2: Please disregard my first edit, below—I was right the first time, then I got the games mixed up.

Edit 1: Oh wait, I forgot, SotTR actually did have an Xbox 360 port! It was one of the last big titles to have one. I think what they showed on screen looked better than the 360 version though, although it's admittedly hard to tell on a stream.

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by terramex on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:58PM (#23605589)
> SotTR actually did have an Xbox 360 port!

It did not, previous game in series (Rise of the Tomb Raider) did have but Shadow(...) was released only on current-gen consoles.

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by sudosysgen on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:25PM (#23604967)
Not on low settings at fake 1080p with an inconsistent framerate, it isn't. It's PS4 level at 60fps on high.

Whereas I can emulate 4k60fps PS3 games with improved textures.

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by turtlebits on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:29PM (#23605040)
When its running on a iPad pro chip? It's pretty impressive., considering Microsoft x86 emulation on the Surface pro X is abysmal.
Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by sudosysgen on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:30PM (#23605078)
Is the target to match the performance of ten year old hardware? Then sure, that's matched. But it's not impressive. AMD FX CPUs have better performance than that, by a mile.
Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by nicoburns on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:00PM (#23605619)
Yeah, but this is their existing CPU/GPU designed to fit into the constraints of the iPad form factor. They'll likely have something much more powerful for consumer hardware.
Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by sudosysgen on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:30PM (#23609054)
The iPad CPU/GPU is already thermal limited. An unlimited A12Z is right at the TDP of a laptop chip, at ~25-30W (5W per big core per anandtech, 4 cores, plus GPU and I/O, it's actually quite a generous estimate.

An unlocked A12Z is likely all you can get away with in a laptop, and inferior to SOTA x86 low power CPUs.