From Dolphin Emulator Wiki. Help us keep up Join in and help us make this the best resource for Dolphin. Since the introduction of the first Macs with M1 last year, the team behind Dolphin вЂ” which is a popular Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulator вЂ” has been working on support for M1 Macs.The Dolphin Emulator Wiki needs your help Dolphin can play thousands of games, and changes are happening all the time.

Using Super Smash Bros once again as an example, the game runs at 120 fps with DolphinвЂ™s native version on the M1 Mac.Things are not yet perfect, as there are still some things to be implemented in the ARM version of Dolphin. In other games like Star Wars Rogue Squadron II, the performance difference was even more noticeable: only 16 fps on the Intel MacBook Pro versus 49 fps on the M1 Mac with Rosetta 2.But what about running the emulator natively? Since Dolphin Emulator relies on JIT compilation, recompiling it for the M1 and the 64-bit ARM architecture was much more complicated вЂ” but not impossible. Most games ran well and the overall performance was better than on a 2018 MacBook Pro with an Intel Core i7 processor.Dolphin on the Intel MacBook Pro can run Super Smash Bros at 71 fps, while the M1 Mac runs the same game at 79 fps. First, the team has already managed to run multiple games using Dolphin Emulator on M1 Macs with only the Rosetta 2 translation layer, which lets users run apps compiled for Intel processors on the Apple Silicon platform.Even with the fact that apps running through the Rosetta 2 do not reach the maximum performance provided by the M1 chip, the results were quite impressive.

And the poor Intel MacBook Pro just canвЂ™t compare.For now, the native version of Dolphin Emulator app for M1 is only available as a developer release. Compared to an absoluteВ monstrosityВ of a Desktop PC, it uses less than 1/10th of the energy while providing ~65% of the performance. We were so impressed, we decided to make a second graph to express it.The efficiency is almost literally off the chart. It absolutelyВ obliteratesВ a two and a half year old Intel MacBook Pro that was over three times its price all while keeping withinВ ARMвЂ™sВ reach of a powerful desktop computer. As shown by developers, the emulator on M1 can render 8.94 frames with one watt of power, while the Intel MacBook Pro renders 1.38 frames per watt.ThereвЂ™s no denying it macOS M1 hardware kicks some serious ass. However, what is even more impressive is the energy efficiency of the ARM architecture.

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