> interesting to note that the biggest differences are on the drivers that are actually > threaded, so MAME clearly does benefit from the extra cores of the i7 in such cases. > > it's interesting because a lot of people still say that more than 2 cores is a waste > for MAME, but if you're running those threaded drivers it actually appears to be > quite significant.
It seems so, recommending the G3258 for a cabinet is easy because of the great single-thread performance versus cost.
Does anyone off-hand know which drivers benefit from multithreading (aside from the ones in this thread)?