Final Fantasy IX Performance - MDEC



The title screen for Final Fantasy IX.



With our first benchmark of the day, the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra takes a pretty significant lead (especially considering that FRAPS is reporting 25% of the framerate that the emulator is reporting here). None of these cards could be said to playback PlayStation format movies slowly, but it does seem that the 5700 Ultra takes more of a performance hit than one might expect, considering the small gap between the 9800 and 9600 cards in addition to the performance lead of the 5950 Ultra.


CPU scaling shows the P4 EE and its beefy cache on top of the heap. Also interesting to note here is that Prescott leads Northwood in performance here.

The Testing Setup Final Fantasy IX Performance - Exploring Locations
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  • Cygni - Thursday, March 4, 2004 - link

    I didnt see this one commin! Cool idea guys. Ive never really seen this done to any extent on a hardware site before.
  • gaidin123 - Thursday, March 4, 2004 - link

    ePSXe is pretty much the standard if you are trying to play original Playstation games. Any modern system can run them pretty much full speed but I think this is just yet another piece of a neverending puzzle in comparing different graphics cards. Some people will find data like this important.

    I found ePSXe a while back and replayed Chrono Cross, one of the best RPGs out there imho. ePSXe runs pretty well on my laptop with the Intel 855 onboard graphics and it would be nice to know how the emulator runs on integrated graphics chipsets/laptops (mini-itx boards, onboard Via, Intel, Sis, Ati, nVidia chipsets) in addition to normal cards like the ones tested here.

    Gaidin
  • Souka - Thursday, March 4, 2004 - link

    *doh*

    Wonder how many flames this thread will get? :)

  • pxc - Thursday, March 4, 2004 - link

    April Fools day came almost a month early this year?
  • apkwebs - Friday, August 24, 2018 - link

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  • apkwebs - Friday, August 24, 2018 - link

    ePSXe for Android is a very modest version of the classic PlayStation One emulator for PC that works perfectly on Android devices. Can I use https://apkwebs.com/download-epsxe on my One-plus android phone?
  • apkwebs - Monday, October 1, 2018 - link

    ePSxE APK : ePSxE is for Android and it’s a simple and modest version of classic of the classic PlayStation 1 and it’s an emulator for PC that just works wonderfully on Android devices. The emulator as the name suggests, does a great job of emulating the task perfectly playing the games of PlayStation one and playing epic titles like Final Fantasy, Tekken 3, Crash bandicoot, and syphon filter, and the biggest one such as Metal Gear solid. You can download the APK Version for free <a href=https://apkwebs.com/download-epsxe/
    >Here</a>.

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