• pelya@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    PS5 emulation is a long ways off, because you generally need 2X faster processor to emulate any console processor.

    PS5 has the same x86-64 CPU architecture as PC, but you still need 2X faster graphics card to emulate those fancy raytracing units.

    • KittyCat@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      2 months ago

      Not necessarily, you can do it with equivalent hardware power if you have a good translation layer like proton

      • pelya@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        2 months ago

        It’s hard to say until we have a working emulator. You don’t need CPU instructions translation, so it should not be 20X as the case with NES, however even with the same CPU architecture it takes 1.0 GHz host CPU to emulate 66 MHz machine, so it’s actually 15x multiplier.