> Well it's interesting to see somebody has done this, however, benchmarks with the
> video and sound disabled aren't really representative of a real world use case...
>
> > ChoccyHobNob has released some RasPi benchmarks today with current MAME, showing
> the
> > performance increases across the generations of Raspberry Pi's. Be sure to check it
> > out!
> >
> > Says ChoccyHobNob:
> > There are a lot of accusations about MAME being slow, about how it is a
> documentation
> > project, not an exercise in performance tuning. Most people seem to think that a 20
> > year old version of MAME is the best you can hope for out of a Raspberry Pi. I’m
> here
> > to say that’s not the case. If you set your expectations at a reasonable level, you
> > tweak your settings in a sensible way, and you overclock wherever you can, you will
> > probably be pleasantly surprised.
> > ...
> > MAME benchmarks are run without using the display or sound devices, this keeps the
> > benchmarks purely about MAME’s performance, and tries to take any bottlenecks with
> > the host system out of the loop. In the case of the Raspberry Pi, the GPU gives the
> > performance a pretty good beating, meaning that games need to run quite a bit
> faster
> > than 100% to be playable.
> >
> > http://choccyhobnob.com/articles/benchmarks-for-mame-on-raspberry-pi/
Sound being disabled has no bearing on emulation speed - it is still emulated. The video is the same, however, may the effect may range from a small bit to a large amount depending on how complex video is. The benchmarks are largely to gauge CPU worthiness anyway, I believe.
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