QEMU Emulation vs Hardware CPU Benchmarks

@derfs

QEMU v9.2.0 running on Mac Mini M4 (base model)



GfxBench2D 2.10 benchmark

@derfs

Hello Derfs,
thank you for sharing the results! I would add them to the online document https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d ... AafaG8YYCQjr9CgvxB6SR8SW/ .

Seems your system is in some benchmarks faster than the MacStudio 2022 from Maijestro. :) Can you give me your details about the processor (cpu and clock rate)?

Regards,
DaFreak

@DaFreak

M4@4.52GHz/2.89GHz

CPU has 4 p-cores, 6 e-cores

@derfs
nice system, thanks!

@DaFreakQuote:

I'm currently waiting for the new MacStudio with M4, which should be available this year. According to some benchmarks, the M4 has almost doubled compared to the M1 Max

However, if you look at the MaxMips, I'm still ahead with the M1 Max

Mine:

---> CPU <---
MAX MIPS: 9845

@Maijestro

Yes, but it's hard to say which benchmark has the most impact on user experience. Nevertheless your next Mac will outshine the current one. =)

Maybe I should retest my config because of QEmu8.0 vs 9.2.

Best regards!

@DaFreak

Quote:

The problem at the moment is that with every new Qemu version the PPC emulation has become slower. The fastest Qemu version I had was 8.0 as far as I can remember, everything after that got slower.

As a benchmark test I always used Quake Timedemo with Qemu 8.x it was still 31 FPS, with newer versions I only get 28 FPS.

Nevertheless, the emulation on a Mac with M1/M2/M3 or 4 is really very fast compared to real hardware.

But what I can say with certainty is that it doesn't yet come close to my X5000, but it could happen in 2-3 years as Mac hardware is developing rapidly.

@derfs

Pretty cool

Isn't GPU passthrough an option with the Mac Mini's Radeon?

I always use Heretic2 as a benchmark. Usually
640x480 software Renderer.

I get 42 fps on my x1000 and 44 fps on my QEmu
Setup (but that gaming laptop i run QEmu on is one
Hell of a machine - 12th generation i7).

An x5000 reaches 63 fps btw.

Interestingly a pi5 with amikit (amiberry) overclocked
reached 56 fps (no idea how they beat the i7, some
special optimizations on amiberry?)

Pistorm pi4 cm was at around 30 fps btw.

@Helloworld

Its Apple own M4 chip with integrated GPU cores, so im not sure where you got Radeon from.

@derfs misread as G4

@TheMagicSN Does Amiberry on the Pi5 run in Big Endian?

@CleaningUp: Amiberry is an Amiga Emulator, so what it emulates is a Big Endian machine. If it would not emulate in Big Endian (the emulated machine Big Endian) Amiga Software could not run on it.

If the Linux running it is Big Endian or Little Endian I have no idea and it is irrelevant.