**Emulation with the Radeon RX 6400: A Test of its Capabilities**

I recently had the opportunity to test the capabilities of the Radeon RX 6400 in various emulators, including Cxbx Reloaded for Xbox and PC SX2 for PS2. The results were impressive, with some games performing well at 4K resolution while others struggled to reach this level.

Using Cxbx Reloaded, I was able to take an original Xbox game up to 4K resolution without any issues, reaching frame rates of around 54-55 FPS. This is a significant improvement over my previous experience with lower-end GPUs, and it's clear that the RX 6400 has more than enough power to handle demanding emulators. However, I did encounter some graphical issues with XEMU, which may be due to the early stages of development for this emulator.

When it comes to PS2 emulation using PC SX2, I was able to take games like Tekken 6 up to 4K resolution without any issues. The newer versions of RPCS3 support FSR, which allows for smooth gameplay even at high frame rates. However, some games like Gran Turismo 4 required me to drop the resolution down to 1620p (which is equivalent to 3K) in order to achieve full speed.

One game that was particularly demanding was Shout Out, which struggled to reach 4K resolution. In this case, I had to stick with the 1620p setting in order to maintain a high frame rate. This highlights the importance of testing different games and settings in order to determine their capabilities with this GPU.

In addition to these results, I also tested other emulators like RetroArch for N64 and Redream for Dreamcast. In both cases, I was able to take games up to 4K resolution without any issues, which suggests that the RX 6400 has more than enough power to handle a wide range of emulators.

While some games did struggle to reach 4K resolution, I believe that the RX 6400 is still a great option for small form factor builds. The GPU's performance in these tests was impressive, and it should be able to handle many popular emulators with ease. As always, more testing and development are needed in order to fully realize this GPU's potential.

Overall, my experience with the Radeon RX 6400 has been overwhelmingly positive. While some games did require adjustments in order to achieve full speed at 4K resolution, I believe that it has plenty of power to handle demanding emulators. If you're interested in learning more about this GPU or want to see its capabilities in action, be sure to check out my upcoming videos on PC gaming performance with the RX 6400.

**Further Testing and Development**

It's worth noting that my experience with the RX 6400 is still early days, and there may be some adjustments needed in order to fully realize this GPU's potential. However, based on these tests, I believe that it has a strong foundation for success.

In particular, I'm excited about the prospect of using FSR in RPCS3, which should allow for even smoother gameplay at high frame rates. Additionally, the RX 6400's performance in N64 and Dreamcast emulators is impressive, and suggests that it may have a wide range of applications in the world of retro gaming.

As always, I'll be keeping an eye on the development of these emulators and GPUs, and will continue to provide updates and insights into their capabilities.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be testing out some emulation on the all new amd radeon rx 6400 gpu when it comes to emulation of course the cpu is really going to be the most important part but when it's time to upscale the gpu can play a really big role and i want to see if the new rx 6400 can do our favorite high-end emulators at 4k or even beyond obviously this variant of the 6400 i have here is low profile and single slot in the past when it comes to building a small form factor emulation pc i always recommended the gtx 1650 but the low profile versions of the 1650 for the last couple years have been really expensive and with the rx 6400 you can actually pick this up for around 150 dollars right now we've got two video outputs full size hdmi full size displayport there's not much else to look at it's got an actively cooled heatsink and when it comes to the specs it's based on navi 24 so we've got an rd and a2 gpu here 768 stream processors 12 compute units 4 gigabytes of gddr6 it only pulls around 53 watts so we don't need any extra power at all it's got a maximum boost frequency up to 2321 megahertz and it actually utilizes pcie 4.0 so as a lot of us already know and i've already mentioned the cpu plays the most important part when it comes to emulation but if you want to do some upscaling the gpu is going to play a major role especially with the newer apis like vulcan and sometimes you can have a really powerful cpu like i do in this machine here we've got the intel i9 12900k overclocked to 5 gigahertz really great cpu one of the best i've ever tested for emulation but when it comes to the integrated graphics it can hardly get out of its own way so upscaling some of the higher end stuff especially ps3 is kind of out of the question when it comes to these integrated graphics and that's where a lower and cheaper gpu might be able to help out before we jump into the testing i did want to give you a quick rundown on this system like i mentioned we've got that i-912 900k it's overkill for emulation we're not going to have a cpu bottleneck with this system and that's really what it comes down to that's why i wanted to test on this machine also got 32 gigabytes of ram this is ddr5 running at 6 400 megahertz we've got the built-in intel 770i gpu and of course the rx 6400 let's go ahead and jump right into some testing i'm going to be using this 4k monitor here with no scaling all the information you need to know is going to be listed on screen game details emulator details and how well the system's running using afterburner in the top left hand corner alright so first on the list we have psp using the standalone version of ppsspp dirt 2 here is one of those games that does fluctuate between 30 and 60 while in game but you can patch it out but with the rx 6400 i was able to take this up to 10x which is just maxed out with this emulator taking a look at some 3ds emulation using citra this uses the opengl back in and with this card the rx 6400 i was only able to go up to 7x which is still plenty i mean it definitely turns this into a whole different experience but when i took it up to 4k it did struggle it was running at about 50 fps dolphin emulator's been around for a while now we can do gamecube and wii and going into this i really didn't expect any issues and we're at 5k resolution here so 5120 by 4224 and this is the highest we can go from the settings within dolphin so we're at 5k here using the vulcan back in and it's looking really good we've got automotive one of my go to test so originally i tested vulcan looking really great for gamecube it also works perfectly fine for wii but i did kind of want to swap this over to directx 11 just to see if it would handle it and we're also at 5k with wii emulation using the dolphin emulator now the simulator does work well on the new radeon igpus in the 5000 series but some of these games can go up to 4k but you know taking a cheaper gpu like this especially a low profile and being able to max it out really makes a difference so tested some original xbox emulation using cxbx reloaded i was able to take this up to 4k not having any issues and it's really not even maxing out that gpu we're at about 54 55 on it looking really good and in the past i've had good luck with lowering nvidia gpus but not great luck with lower-end amd gpus so with our dna 2 totally possible to take this up to 4k but i did run into some issues with xemu i tested about three games and i kept getting a lot of graphical issues so you know i think it's just a little early for this gpu and this emulator right now but when it comes to ps2 using pc sx2 looking real good here at 4k resolutions using the directx 11 back in i was gonna go with the development versions of pcsx2 and try vulkan out but he was performing well enough with directx 11. now it doesn't mean that every single game is going to go to 4k with the rx 6400 because i did run into a couple games where it just wasn't possible to go up to 4k like shout out to colossus and one of my favorites gran turismo 4. so here's gran turismo 4 and i did have to drop this down to their 3k setting which is uh 1620p still looks really good here for an older ps2 game being upscaled but this gpu was struggling at 4k we were in the 50s i mean it was definitely close but we just couldn't get full speed with it so when it comes to ps2 and the rx 6400 there's a lot of games that will perform well at 4k but some of them you might need to drop it off just a little bit moving up to ps3 using rpcs3 vulcan back in here's tekken 6 at 4k now with the newer versions of rpcs3 it does support fsr and we can turn it on but this is at a straight 4k resolution i wanted to see if it would handle it and it's doing a great job actually wasn't expecting it to do 4k with this emulator and even with the harder to emulate stuff which does require a pretty beefy cpu to run we're able to take this up to 4k with no issues we're at about 74 utilization on the gpu and if you take a look at the cpu which is that 12 900k we're pulling 150 watts i mean this is just a harder game to emulate and you need a pretty good cpu to do it unfortunately i couldn't get simu to launch i'm not exactly sure what was going on with it i guess it comes down to the newer drivers in this gpu but one that did work was the yuzu emulator for switch so i tested out shield 4k we got full speed with it looking good there with the vulcan back in but when i moved over to odyssey did run into some issues so with that one i had to drop it down to 1440p at 4k with odyssey we were averaging around 51 fps it was close but you know just taking it down a bit it does work out well so when it comes to the new radeon rx 6400 in emulation i personally think it's doing a really good job most of this stuff was able to be done at 4k resolution some we did have to drop off but that could come down to driver issues right now it's still a bit early even for our dna too so maybe down the road those games that didn't quite perform well at 4k will but uh until then i still think it's going to be a great option for a small form factor emulation build you didn't see any lower end emulation in this video but i did go through and i tested some n64 we were able to do 4k using the mupin core inside of retroarch and i also tested out dreamcast using redream again over 4k no problem at all we've got plenty of power for the lower end games i'm a huge fan of this card and if you're interested in checking out the pc gaming performance of this thing i did create a video and i will have a few more coming i got a couple small form factor builds that i wanted to get out of the way with the rx 6400 but you know if you're interested in learning more i will leave a few links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on this let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be testing out some emulation on the all new amd radeon rx 6400 gpu when it comes to emulation of course the cpu is really going to be the most important part but when it's time to upscale the gpu can play a really big role and i want to see if the new rx 6400 can do our favorite high-end emulators at 4k or even beyond obviously this variant of the 6400 i have here is low profile and single slot in the past when it comes to building a small form factor emulation pc i always recommended the gtx 1650 but the low profile versions of the 1650 for the last couple years have been really expensive and with the rx 6400 you can actually pick this up for around 150 dollars right now we've got two video outputs full size hdmi full size displayport there's not much else to look at it's got an actively cooled heatsink and when it comes to the specs it's based on navi 24 so we've got an rd and a2 gpu here 768 stream processors 12 compute units 4 gigabytes of gddr6 it only pulls around 53 watts so we don't need any extra power at all it's got a maximum boost frequency up to 2321 megahertz and it actually utilizes pcie 4.0 so as a lot of us already know and i've already mentioned the cpu plays the most important part when it comes to emulation but if you want to do some upscaling the gpu is going to play a major role especially with the newer apis like vulcan and sometimes you can have a really powerful cpu like i do in this machine here we've got the intel i9 12900k overclocked to 5 gigahertz really great cpu one of the best i've ever tested for emulation but when it comes to the integrated graphics it can hardly get out of its own way so upscaling some of the higher end stuff especially ps3 is kind of out of the question when it comes to these integrated graphics and that's where a lower and cheaper gpu might be able to help out before we jump into the testing i did want to give you a quick rundown on this system like i mentioned we've got that i-912 900k it's overkill for emulation we're not going to have a cpu bottleneck with this system and that's really what it comes down to that's why i wanted to test on this machine also got 32 gigabytes of ram this is ddr5 running at 6 400 megahertz we've got the built-in intel 770i gpu and of course the rx 6400 let's go ahead and jump right into some testing i'm going to be using this 4k monitor here with no scaling all the information you need to know is going to be listed on screen game details emulator details and how well the system's running using afterburner in the top left hand corner alright so first on the list we have psp using the standalone version of ppsspp dirt 2 here is one of those games that does fluctuate between 30 and 60 while in game but you can patch it out but with the rx 6400 i was able to take this up to 10x which is just maxed out with this emulator taking a look at some 3ds emulation using citra this uses the opengl back in and with this card the rx 6400 i was only able to go up to 7x which is still plenty i mean it definitely turns this into a whole different experience but when i took it up to 4k it did struggle it was running at about 50 fps dolphin emulator's been around for a while now we can do gamecube and wii and going into this i really didn't expect any issues and we're at 5k resolution here so 5120 by 4224 and this is the highest we can go from the settings within dolphin so we're at 5k here using the vulcan back in and it's looking really good we've got automotive one of my go to test so originally i tested vulcan looking really great for gamecube it also works perfectly fine for wii but i did kind of want to swap this over to directx 11 just to see if it would handle it and we're also at 5k with wii emulation using the dolphin emulator now the simulator does work well on the new radeon igpus in the 5000 series but some of these games can go up to 4k but you know taking a cheaper gpu like this especially a low profile and being able to max it out really makes a difference so tested some original xbox emulation using cxbx reloaded i was able to take this up to 4k not having any issues and it's really not even maxing out that gpu we're at about 54 55 on it looking really good and in the past i've had good luck with lowering nvidia gpus but not great luck with lower-end amd gpus so with our dna 2 totally possible to take this up to 4k but i did run into some issues with xemu i tested about three games and i kept getting a lot of graphical issues so you know i think it's just a little early for this gpu and this emulator right now but when it comes to ps2 using pc sx2 looking real good here at 4k resolutions using the directx 11 back in i was gonna go with the development versions of pcsx2 and try vulkan out but he was performing well enough with directx 11. now it doesn't mean that every single game is going to go to 4k with the rx 6400 because i did run into a couple games where it just wasn't possible to go up to 4k like shout out to colossus and one of my favorites gran turismo 4. so here's gran turismo 4 and i did have to drop this down to their 3k setting which is uh 1620p still looks really good here for an older ps2 game being upscaled but this gpu was struggling at 4k we were in the 50s i mean it was definitely close but we just couldn't get full speed with it so when it comes to ps2 and the rx 6400 there's a lot of games that will perform well at 4k but some of them you might need to drop it off just a little bit moving up to ps3 using rpcs3 vulcan back in here's tekken 6 at 4k now with the newer versions of rpcs3 it does support fsr and we can turn it on but this is at a straight 4k resolution i wanted to see if it would handle it and it's doing a great job actually wasn't expecting it to do 4k with this emulator and even with the harder to emulate stuff which does require a pretty beefy cpu to run we're able to take this up to 4k with no issues we're at about 74 utilization on the gpu and if you take a look at the cpu which is that 12 900k we're pulling 150 watts i mean this is just a harder game to emulate and you need a pretty good cpu to do it unfortunately i couldn't get simu to launch i'm not exactly sure what was going on with it i guess it comes down to the newer drivers in this gpu but one that did work was the yuzu emulator for switch so i tested out shield 4k we got full speed with it looking good there with the vulcan back in but when i moved over to odyssey did run into some issues so with that one i had to drop it down to 1440p at 4k with odyssey we were averaging around 51 fps it was close but you know just taking it down a bit it does work out well so when it comes to the new radeon rx 6400 in emulation i personally think it's doing a really good job most of this stuff was able to be done at 4k resolution some we did have to drop off but that could come down to driver issues right now it's still a bit early even for our dna too so maybe down the road those games that didn't quite perform well at 4k will but uh until then i still think it's going to be a great option for a small form factor emulation build you didn't see any lower end emulation in this video but i did go through and i tested some n64 we were able to do 4k using the mupin core inside of retroarch and i also tested out dreamcast using redream again over 4k no problem at all we've got plenty of power for the lower end games i'm a huge fan of this card and if you're interested in checking out the pc gaming performance of this thing i did create a video and i will have a few more coming i got a couple small form factor builds that i wanted to get out of the way with the rx 6400 but you know if you're interested in learning more i will leave a few links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on this let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watching\n"