> > > 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. > > Yes, I'm aware of that. > > What I'm saying is that (and the post even mentions it) is that the simply process of > outputting the video to the screen is very costly on the Pi and drags performance > down quite a lot. > > In terms of real world benchmarks the only thing anybody is going to care about is > the end result, and, even with the warning in place, it's likely these benchmarks > will end up making the hardware look more capable than it actually is.
No.. no.. I get you. If he is willing to do it all again, he could do simply "-str 90 -nothrottle" and allow the sound/video to be rendered and get a more accurate "real" performance indication. Historically, though, MAME benchmarks have always focused most on CPU performance than rendering.
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