What CPU/GPU would be roughly equivalent to a wii?

MnMWizard · Jul 21, 2016

I've been playing with (and marvelling at) the dolphin Wii emulator, and since the addition of the dx11/dx12 backend, performance and graphics are amazing, hell of a lot better than the actual Wii. Just thinking, what computer setup would ROUGHLY be equivalent to a standard Wii system? I know they can't be compared exactly the same way since they work differently, but I just want an estimate.

Calculagator · Jul 21, 2016

The wii is old and was never especially powerful. It had less than 100mb of total RAM. Its CPU and GPU would be outclassed even by $30 phones and tablets. Of course, a computer that can emulate a wii at full speed would need to be much more powerful because of the huge overhead of emulation. I'm guessing you would need to go back to the Pentium III days to find an Intel CPU with less power than the Wii CPU.

boosted1g · Jul 21, 2016

An i3 + a 950 gpu should be more then enough to handle the extra overhead of the emulator software, and allow you to play other games as well.

MnMWizard · Jul 22, 2016

boosted1g :

I'm not looking to buy a PC with those specs, I have a 4690k and a 970 and it works great, just wondering. Thanks for the answers.

MnMWizard · Jul 22, 2016

leomund :

Why would you link that?

leomund · Jul 22, 2016

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Because it answers the question.

Ecky · Jul 22, 2016

The Wii was a rough doubling of the Gamecube, hardware-wise, without much (if any?) architectural changes.

I want to say the Wii is somewhere around a low-end Pentium 3 in performance, while the GPU is in the range of a Geforce 3 or Radeon 8500.

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