02-03-2014, 09:41 PM
I know but the fact is the closer the guest cpu frequency is to the host cpu frequency, the more difficult the emulator can reach a satisfying gameplay (unless IPC is reaching a far bigger number). The same happens for gpu, by the way. And yes, frequency is not alone. You'd better have adequate SIMD instructions for host cpu to emulate SIMD instructions of guest cpu. And so on. Those mobile Haswell/Broadwell cores are not running at the same frequency as the desktop ones because of the battery life, and Intel is not telling the exact truth about the real reduction in power consumption. In idling they must be excellent but in full charge it is still another story...