PeteBernert - Friday, Malink I want to add a small comment (since my plugins seems to be mentioned in the article )) about the 'developed on/for ATI cards' confusions: all of my psx gpu plugins (Win D3D/OGL1/OGL2 Linux Mesa/XGL2) were in fact developed on nVidia cards.

All we can do right now is to give a sidelong glance at the motherboard and wonder, but we don't have any conclusive evidence of what is going on here yet. The added speed and cache of the 3.4GHz EE not adding any benefit at all indicates that there is a bottleneck somewhere else in the system. With all the Intel processors essentially pushing 66 frames per second (almost 200fps in the emulator), this seems like it could be a platform limitation.

Here, we see both the AMD Athlon 64 processors leading the Intel bunch. Of course, that doesn't mean as much considering the fact that the performance delta from top to bottom is only 3 frames per second. In this benchmark, GPU seems to have less impact than CPU (as seen in the next graph), but the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra has finally crept out from under the pile. The FRAPS reported frame rate is about 33% of the emulator reported framerate. This is a full 3D landscape environment with some framebuffer effects (in this case, rain). Final Fantasy IX Performance - The World Map

Final fantasy ix world map