CPU to Play PCSx2

[RoyA2015]

I have a crappy, and old 2nd Gen. i7-2670QM, ranks like #317 on pasmarks site.w.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php]pasmarks site[/url].

So was looking at the XBOX ONE CPU, here.

What does 2 x 2 MB 16-way associative shared cache mean?

I can't find anything like that on Ark.Intel.com. They're like Xeon processors for thousands of dollars.

I understand it's a custom CPU made by AMD, for Microsoft, but..

I'd like to know if the PCSx2 would be nice with the 6700k or the 4790k. I like the 4790k more because it's 4.0 - 4.4Ghz, while the 6700k is a little more expensive, and slightly higher score on passmarks list.. Will it be good enough to run the PCSx2 and beat the XBOX ONE CPU?

The 6700k, 4 x 256 KB 4-way set associative caches.. for L2 cache.. that's lower than the XBOX ONE, because the XBOX ONE has 2x 2MB 16-way.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

I ran PCSx2 on a E8400... Both are fine.
That said, I'd go for the 6700k because of the newer architecture and DDR4.

 

[k1114]

Pcsx2 works perfectly fine on my 2500k. The 2670qm maybe a little old but it is far from crappy. It is more powerful than what the xbone has. You can't go by passmark rank when it's only a laptop quad core and it's up against desktop cpus and heavy hitting 16 core xeons. It still plays most any game with a decent gpu and with a laptop, gpu is most likely the issue. Your 555m is crappy. Was lowish end 4 years ago and is beaten by modern intel igpu.

Did you say the xbone cpu is like an xeon for thousands of dollars? It's got the compute performance of a fx 4100. It's low end. The 6700k will wipe the floor and run miles around what the xbone has. Cache is completely irrelevant when the cpu cores are far superior, it's not even a competition.

 

[SKIPPY PB]

I run PCSx2 on a Pentium D 3.4ghz CPU and it runs decently well on that. I haven't tried it on my 4790K yet but i'm pretty confident it would do very, very well.