Testing Dolphin Emulator on Handheld Unit with Iris XC GPU

The dolphin emulator was tested on the handheld unit with its iris xc gpu, which is capable of running gamecube and wii games at full speed, even when upscaled to 1080p. The developer has had no trouble running various games through this emulator and notes that it should be able to run any compatible game from these consoles.

Dolphin Emulator Performance

The dolphin emulator's performance on the handheld unit was tested with several different titles, including a gamecube and wii game. The results showed that the emulator ran at full speed, even when upscaled to 1080p. This suggests that the iris xc gpu is capable of handling the demands of this emulator.

Testing Ps2 Emulation using PCSX2

Ps2 emulation was tested on the handheld unit using pcsx2. The performance was good, with the emulator running smoothly at 720p. The developer notes that the emulator's settings can be adjusted to fit different needs, including changing the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9.

PS2 Emulation Performance

The performance of the ps2 emulation on the handheld unit using pcsx2 was good, with the emulator running smoothly at 720p. The developer notes that the performance is comparable to other gaming consoles in terms of graphical quality and frame rate.

Using RPCS3 for PS3 Emulation

RPCS3 was used to emulate ps3 games on the handheld unit. The developer notes that the performance was impressive, with the emulator running smoothly even when using multiple cores and threads. This suggests that the iris xc gpu is capable of handling the demands of this emulator.

RPCS3 Performance

The performance of rpcs3 on the handheld unit was tested with several different titles, including skate 3. The results showed that the emulator ran smoothly, but that the cpu usage was high due to the hardware limitations of the iris xc gpu. This suggests that the emulator may not be able to run at full speed without some optimization.

Testing Simu Emulator

The simu emulator was tested on the handheld unit with a few different titles, including mario kart 8 and breath of the wild. The developer notes that they had some issues with vulcan in the past, but has since fixed these problems by deleting their old build and reinstalling the emulator.

Simu Emulator Performance

The performance of the simu emulator on the handheld unit was good, with the emulator running smoothly at 60fps. However, the developer notes that turning off async caused some anomalies when playing breath of the wild. This suggests that the emulator may not be fully optimized for all titles and genres.

Using Citra for 3DS Emulation

Citra was used to emulate 3ds games on the handheld unit. The performance was good, with the emulator running smoothly even at 2x resolution. This suggests that the iris xc gpu is capable of handling the demands of this emulator.

Test Setup and Benchmarks

The developer notes that the handheld unit's built-in gpu does a pretty good job given its form factor, but that using an external rtx 2070 would increase performance significantly. The developer also ran some benchmarks to test the performance of the iris xc gpu in different scenarios.

Testing Performance on Handheld Unit with External GPU

When connected to an external thunderbolt 3 rtx 2070, the handheld unit's performance was significantly improved. This suggests that using a powerful external gpu can greatly increase the performance of the handheld unit.

Conclusion

The handheld unit's iris xc gpu is capable of running a wide range of games and emulators at full speed, even when upscaled to high resolutions. While there are some limitations due to hardware constraints, the developer notes that these can often be overcome with optimization and tweaking. Overall, the handheld unit is a powerful device for gaming on-the-go, and its iris xc gpu is capable of delivering impressive performance despite its form factor.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys the cta prime back here again today we're going to be checking out some emulation on the all new one gx1 pro now as you can see this is a mini windows laptop and it's definitely focused on gaming given that we have these detachable controllers here and recently i did a video on this showing off some pc game performance and personally i'm a big fan of this thing i mean they definitely pack some performance into this thing given the form factor so if you're interested in checking that video out i will leave a link in the description but this is going to be focused on emulation but before we jump right into it i just want to give you a quick rundown on the specs here as for the cpu this is using an i7 1160 g7 we have four course eight threads base clock 1.1 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.4 the built-in gpu is the new intel iris r xe graphics with 96 execution units up to 1.1 gigahertz 16 gigabytes of lp ram running at 4 267 megahertz 512 gigabyte m.2 nvme ssd a 7 inch ips 1080p touch panel and we have some more specs listed on screen i'm not going to bore you with that because i do want to jump right into some emulation now the first thing we're going to be testing here is psp and i do want to mention that if you want to go any lower than psp with this unit it's going to run perfectly fine dreamcast n64 pc engine snes even sega saturn whether you want to use the yobasi and shiro core or with this high clock on the cpu here you can use the beetle core inside of retroarch which is the one i prefer using now in this video we're going to focus more on the higher end emulators but i did want to show a little bit of psp emulation going here so first up we have the psp version of gran turismo using the vulcan back in and i'm upscaled to 5x i haven't had any issues with this unit running psp games especially with that vulcan back in and this 11th gen i7 cpu now just to make this video a little easier on myself i'm going to go ahead and connect this to an external display i know it's kind of hard to see what's going on in the top left hand corner because i do have afterburner running all right so i'm just connected over hdmi to this portable monitor here and if you did want to use these controllers detached they do work they connect to the unit over bluetooth or 2.4 gigahertz connection but i'm going to be using an xbox controller connected to the one gx pro so i'm just going to get into ppsspp and we'll start up ghost of sparta and again still using that vulcan back in 5x resolution it's working absolutely amazingly with psp emulation and going into this i knew it would especially with that i7 cpu clocked up to 4.4 gigahertz and not to mention the new intel iris xe graphics i'm really impressed with what intel has done with their new integrated graphics i mean they work really well with emulation and pc gaming so it looks like this isn't working out either i'm gonna have to go to my game capture i'm just going to plug this into hdmi so we can get a better look at these higher end emulators running on the one gx pro so first up we have gamecube using the dolphin emulator upscaled to 1080p and i really didn't take it any further because the built-in screen on the unit itself only does 1080p but i'm pretty sure we could at least get 1440p out of this whole chipset here it just really comes down to the built-in screen only being 1080p and most of the time that's what you're going to be playing on but when it comes to gamecube and wii emulation this little thing will handle everything and by the way i'm using the vulcan back in next on the list for gamecube we have automotive lisa this is one that i always throw in my test because on lower end systems it definitely lags out but really when you take a look at the specs of the one gx pro this is not a low end system especially with that i7 cpu so if you're looking for something to play gamecube games at full speed upscale to 1080p on the go this is definitely a great little option here i got one more gamecube game and then we'll move over to wii we have f0 gx another one of those games that's just really hard to emulate for some systems because there's actually a lot of stuff going on especially when you're hitting that boost button but this system handles it perfectly fine taking it up a notch with the dolphin emulator up to wii emulation again i've tested a lot of games with this haven't had any trouble even upscaled so basically as long as the game is compatible with the dolphin emulator be it a gamecube or a wii game this is going to run it at full speed even upscaled to 1080p and if you have a monitor that supports a higher resolution i'm sure we could go to 1440. so i've got one more wii game to test with dolphin and then we're gonna move up to ps2 all right so taking a look at ps2 emulation using pcsx2 at 720p it's looking pretty good now it did go widescreen with this game here it does stretch it out a little bit you can actually go into the settings of the game itself and turn it to 16x9 i probably should have left it at 4x3 because really that's how i'd like to play these games but overall i've had really good luck with ps2 emulation on this device now for the back end here we're actually using dx11 instead of opengl if you swapped over to opengl with this system you wouldn't be able to play many of these games but with directx 11 enabled you'll be able to do most of this stuff at 720p so uh so when it comes to ps3 we're using rpcs3 and i was actually really impressed with the performance here we have four cores and eight threads and when it comes to the rpcs three emulator it loves extra threads especially with some of the harder to run games like skate 3 and by the way i did test that we'll see that in just a second but with the vulcan back end enabled there's a lot of ps3 stuff that'll be fully playable on this unit oh uh and finally for ps3 we have skate 3. now it's trying its hardest to keep that 60 fps frame rate and as you can see up in the top left hand corner that cpu is totally maxed out it's maxing out all four cores and eight threads and unfortunately since this is a mobile chip with all of that maxed out we can't reach the maximum clocks that's why we're seeing a clock rate of around 2.3 to 2.4 on the cpu now if it could keep a longer boost time or a higher base clock i'm sure we could run this at 60fps full time but it's a mobile chip after all and it does have its limitations pretty impressed by seeing what it can do and the final thing i wanted to test here was the simu emulator now i'll admit going into this i did have some issues with vulcan i was getting extremely long loading time so what i had to do was delete my whole old build of cemu reinstall it get some shader cache built up with the new version and it seems to be working really well now as you can see mario kart 8 is at 60 using that vulcan back in with async on i also tested breath of the wild and it'll run it at 30 fps all day if you turn on fps plus plus and try to get it to 60 it's around 45 but personally i prefer playing this at 30 because there are some weird anomalies that happen when you're running this at a higher frame rate but yeah just seeing these emulators run this well on a handheld with integrated intel graphics is pretty awesome i mean these little chips are getting more powerful every year and i'd say within the next two iterations of these intel chips we're gonna be able to run all this stuff at 60. no problem at all with built-in graphics and yeah this will even do 3ds emulation using citra at 2x resolution with that opengl back in overall i'm a big fan of this little handheld definitely comes with a pretty high price tag given the form factor but if you're looking for a handheld that can basically do anything this is definitely one to take a look at and do some more research on if you're interested in checking out some pc games running on this unit definitely check out my first video i'll leave a link for that in the description i ran some benchmarks and tested out a bunch of games with this iris xc gpu and it does a pretty good job i even connected it to an external thunderbolt 3 rtx 2070 to up that graphics performance and putting it in a desktop mode like that definitely gives you a whole another experience but the built-in gpu that they're using here given that it's integrated does a really great job but that's going to do it for this video i really appreciate you watching if you want to see anything else running on this unit or if you have any questions just let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on guys the cta prime back here again today we're going to be checking out some emulation on the all new one gx1 pro now as you can see this is a mini windows laptop and it's definitely focused on gaming given that we have these detachable controllers here and recently i did a video on this showing off some pc game performance and personally i'm a big fan of this thing i mean they definitely pack some performance into this thing given the form factor so if you're interested in checking that video out i will leave a link in the description but this is going to be focused on emulation but before we jump right into it i just want to give you a quick rundown on the specs here as for the cpu this is using an i7 1160 g7 we have four course eight threads base clock 1.1 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.4 the built-in gpu is the new intel iris r xe graphics with 96 execution units up to 1.1 gigahertz 16 gigabytes of lp ram running at 4 267 megahertz 512 gigabyte m.2 nvme ssd a 7 inch ips 1080p touch panel and we have some more specs listed on screen i'm not going to bore you with that because i do want to jump right into some emulation now the first thing we're going to be testing here is psp and i do want to mention that if you want to go any lower than psp with this unit it's going to run perfectly fine dreamcast n64 pc engine snes even sega saturn whether you want to use the yobasi and shiro core or with this high clock on the cpu here you can use the beetle core inside of retroarch which is the one i prefer using now in this video we're going to focus more on the higher end emulators but i did want to show a little bit of psp emulation going here so first up we have the psp version of gran turismo using the vulcan back in and i'm upscaled to 5x i haven't had any issues with this unit running psp games especially with that vulcan back in and this 11th gen i7 cpu now just to make this video a little easier on myself i'm going to go ahead and connect this to an external display i know it's kind of hard to see what's going on in the top left hand corner because i do have afterburner running all right so i'm just connected over hdmi to this portable monitor here and if you did want to use these controllers detached they do work they connect to the unit over bluetooth or 2.4 gigahertz connection but i'm going to be using an xbox controller connected to the one gx pro so i'm just going to get into ppsspp and we'll start up ghost of sparta and again still using that vulcan back in 5x resolution it's working absolutely amazingly with psp emulation and going into this i knew it would especially with that i7 cpu clocked up to 4.4 gigahertz and not to mention the new intel iris xe graphics i'm really impressed with what intel has done with their new integrated graphics i mean they work really well with emulation and pc gaming so it looks like this isn't working out either i'm gonna have to go to my game capture i'm just going to plug this into hdmi so we can get a better look at these higher end emulators running on the one gx pro so first up we have gamecube using the dolphin emulator upscaled to 1080p and i really didn't take it any further because the built-in screen on the unit itself only does 1080p but i'm pretty sure we could at least get 1440p out of this whole chipset here it just really comes down to the built-in screen only being 1080p and most of the time that's what you're going to be playing on but when it comes to gamecube and wii emulation this little thing will handle everything and by the way i'm using the vulcan back in next on the list for gamecube we have automotive lisa this is one that i always throw in my test because on lower end systems it definitely lags out but really when you take a look at the specs of the one gx pro this is not a low end system especially with that i7 cpu so if you're looking for something to play gamecube games at full speed upscale to 1080p on the go this is definitely a great little option here i got one more gamecube game and then we'll move over to wii we have f0 gx another one of those games that's just really hard to emulate for some systems because there's actually a lot of stuff going on especially when you're hitting that boost button but this system handles it perfectly fine taking it up a notch with the dolphin emulator up to wii emulation again i've tested a lot of games with this haven't had any trouble even upscaled so basically as long as the game is compatible with the dolphin emulator be it a gamecube or a wii game this is going to run it at full speed even upscaled to 1080p and if you have a monitor that supports a higher resolution i'm sure we could go to 1440. so i've got one more wii game to test with dolphin and then we're gonna move up to ps2 all right so taking a look at ps2 emulation using pcsx2 at 720p it's looking pretty good now it did go widescreen with this game here it does stretch it out a little bit you can actually go into the settings of the game itself and turn it to 16x9 i probably should have left it at 4x3 because really that's how i'd like to play these games but overall i've had really good luck with ps2 emulation on this device now for the back end here we're actually using dx11 instead of opengl if you swapped over to opengl with this system you wouldn't be able to play many of these games but with directx 11 enabled you'll be able to do most of this stuff at 720p so uh so when it comes to ps3 we're using rpcs3 and i was actually really impressed with the performance here we have four cores and eight threads and when it comes to the rpcs three emulator it loves extra threads especially with some of the harder to run games like skate 3 and by the way i did test that we'll see that in just a second but with the vulcan back end enabled there's a lot of ps3 stuff that'll be fully playable on this unit oh uh and finally for ps3 we have skate 3. now it's trying its hardest to keep that 60 fps frame rate and as you can see up in the top left hand corner that cpu is totally maxed out it's maxing out all four cores and eight threads and unfortunately since this is a mobile chip with all of that maxed out we can't reach the maximum clocks that's why we're seeing a clock rate of around 2.3 to 2.4 on the cpu now if it could keep a longer boost time or a higher base clock i'm sure we could run this at 60fps full time but it's a mobile chip after all and it does have its limitations pretty impressed by seeing what it can do and the final thing i wanted to test here was the simu emulator now i'll admit going into this i did have some issues with vulcan i was getting extremely long loading time so what i had to do was delete my whole old build of cemu reinstall it get some shader cache built up with the new version and it seems to be working really well now as you can see mario kart 8 is at 60 using that vulcan back in with async on i also tested breath of the wild and it'll run it at 30 fps all day if you turn on fps plus plus and try to get it to 60 it's around 45 but personally i prefer playing this at 30 because there are some weird anomalies that happen when you're running this at a higher frame rate but yeah just seeing these emulators run this well on a handheld with integrated intel graphics is pretty awesome i mean these little chips are getting more powerful every year and i'd say within the next two iterations of these intel chips we're gonna be able to run all this stuff at 60. no problem at all with built-in graphics and yeah this will even do 3ds emulation using citra at 2x resolution with that opengl back in overall i'm a big fan of this little handheld definitely comes with a pretty high price tag given the form factor but if you're looking for a handheld that can basically do anything this is definitely one to take a look at and do some more research on if you're interested in checking out some pc games running on this unit definitely check out my first video i'll leave a link for that in the description i ran some benchmarks and tested out a bunch of games with this iris xc gpu and it does a pretty good job i even connected it to an external thunderbolt 3 rtx 2070 to up that graphics performance and putting it in a desktop mode like that definitely gives you a whole another experience but the built-in gpu that they're using here given that it's integrated does a really great job but that's going to do it for this video i really appreciate you watching if you want to see anything else running on this unit or if you have any questions just let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching you\n"