Quoted from rubberducks:enough it'd be entirely due to lacking featureset or poorly adapted code, not raw performance. The SoC in the Pi 3 probably has a quarter of a billion transistors, if not significantly more (dunno how big the gpu is). The Cyrix MediaGX has 2.4million (100x less) and runs at 120-160Mhz (dunno which SKU Pin2K used) as opposed to 1.2Ghz for the 2 A53 cores in the Pi3.
To give you an idea of how stupid your assertion is. In Dhrystone 2.1 the following score
Quoted from rubberducks:Actually, I do. Whilst I'm no expert on software, I know plenty about hardware - enough to know you're speaking out of your behind. You're talking about emulating a system that was written over 15 years ago on absolutely not state of the art hardware for the time. If a Pi 3 couldn't run it in emulation fast enough it'd be entirely due to lacking featureset or poorly adapted code, not raw performance. The SoC in the Pi 3 probably has a quarter of a billion transistors, if not significantly more (dunno how big the gpu is). The Cyrix MediaGX has 2.4million (100x less) and runs at 120-160Mhz (dunno which SKU Pin2K used) as opposed to 1.2Ghz for the 2 A53 cores in the Pi3.
To give you an idea of how stupid your assertion is. In Dhrystone 2.1 the following scores can be expected:
Pentium 150Mhz (probably 20% faster than the Cyrix MediaGX) - 185-190MIPS
Raspberry Pi Model B+ - 840-850MIPS
Raspberry Pi Zero - 1230-1240MIPS
Raspberry Pi 2 - ~1650MIPS
Raspberry Pi 3 - 2458MIPS according to the first and only benchmarking test I've found - https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-3-specs-benchmarks/
The GPU is in addition to this and isn't comparable in any meaningful sense of the word. How much RAM does Pin2K have? 32MB? Maximum 64MB? Pi3 has 1GB.
You can easily run an N64 emulator on an ARM SoC with half the power of a Pi 3. According to various sources the N64 scores about 125MIPS in Dhrystone, though due to the custom graphics hardware was considerably more powerful than this would suggest (and therefore more taxing to emulate).
While hardware speed does play a small role in virtualization it actually has only a marginal amount to due with the overall speed of what you are emulating.
Ever play mame games? Or I should ask, ever TRY to play some mame games that have been poorly emulated? Doesn't matter what type of hardware you are running, they still run like shit.
