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sc94597 on 12 October 2017
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caffeinade said:
sc94597 said:

I think it is time for me to get a new GPU. I have an r9 280x, from when I built my PC in 2014, but the thing runs CEMU (and I assume RPCS3; haven't tried) like crap because AMD's drivers aren't that good. My CPU isn't the bottleneck (i5 4690k @ 4.4 Ghz.) I'd like to sell my Wii U and PS3, hate having so many consoles around. 

Cemu seems to use a fair bit of RAM.
Currently my instance is using 16.6GB of system memory, and 10.4GB of VRAM.

Your CPU would probably be better than mine for this task.

I have 16GB of system memory and only 3GB of Vram. Breath of the Wild even at native resolution, with a full shader cache, cemuhook, etc only runs at like 15 - 25 FPS, with many nasty graphical artifacts, and tons of stuttering (shader cache doesn't seem to work.) The last version I tried it on was 1.8.2, but I doubt there was much improvement with 1.10. 

On the otherhand, Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario 3D World  have been running almost perfectly at 1440p for a while now. Xenoblade Chronicles X has that annoying bloom glitch, which I am too lazy to fix. The game also looks much uglier than on Wii U even with a 1080p texture pack. It runs okay (25 - 30fps with drops to the teens during battles.) 

An Nvidia card with at least 6 GB of VRAM would probably fix my problems. Definitely want to fool around in Xenoblade Chronicles X and Breath of the Wild at 1440p or 4k.  CEMU will probably always have problems with AMD cards because of AMD's lackluster driver support.