What should I upgrade to run 6 Emulators smoothly?

[trzasku]

What part of my hardware should I upgrade to improve the performance in this specific type of activity - running 6 Android Emulators on the Chineese MOMO Emulator 2.0.44. I use them for work and need them to run absolutely smoothly.

 

I suppose the main solution would be upgrading the CPU. If I am right, what type of CPU should I be looking for (number of cores, threads)? I do not play games, if that would change the CPU choice.

 

Is there something I can do with my current CPU that would make the expierience of working with those emulator more smooth? On every emulator I choose to use 1 CPU core and 2048MB of RAM - would changing those setting mayby make a difference?

• MOBO: MSI Z77 MPower

• CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K + Dark Rock Pro 3

• SSD: Samsung 850 EVO (500 GB) + Samsung 830 (256 GB)

• GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 670

• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP DDR 3 16 GB 

 

 

The Task Manager screen below shows the Emulators running at peak performance (for example launching them and sometimes when using them), It is then when I feel everything on my PC is working very slow.

 

[Princess Luna]

How much can you spend? it really comes down to that, emulation loves fast cores so you're likely to stay with Intel instead of AMD, I would say the i7 8700 is the perfect CPU for this as I have tested it out myself, but as I said it all depends how much you can afford or if you want something maybe from the used market?

[trzasku]

I can spend ~600$ but if there is something significantly better for a higher price I would also consider it. Would an i9 make a huge differnece?

 

Is there something I can do at this moment with my current build? Mayby change some options that I mentioned?

[emosun]

seems like you'd benefit from more cpu's than a single faster one. something like 2 or 4 socket xeons would be better than consumer cpu's.

[Tabs]

30 minutes ago, trzasku said:

I can spend ~600$ but if there is something significantly better for a higher price I would also consider it. Would an i9 make a huge differnece?

 

Is there something I can do at this moment with my current build? Mayby change some options that I mentioned?

Almost all android platforms are now 4-8 core by design. Theoretically, the more threads=the better for emulation, since the emulator could park threads on more cores instead of having to shuffle them around the way computers had to back in the 90's and early 2000's before dual core became "the norm".

 

If you have the money for it, a threadripper 1920X would be perfect for this - you could assign 4 threads to each emulator and that would fill out the full 24 threads available to the system, and each emulated instance would have ample real threads to make each individual emulator run more smoothly.

 

However, if that's outside your budget - which would be understandable, as it's an expensive platform - then I'd recommend basically anything that can handle at LEAST 12 threads, so you can assign two per emulated instance. For example, any of the 8 core/16 thread Ryzen 7 chips like the 2700 and 2700X would enable you to assign 2 threads per instance and still have 4 dedicated threads left over for the host operating system.

 

I wouldn't recommend going for an i7-8700 or i7-8700k or i9-series chip. They are simply too expensive - both the platform and the chip - to make the investment worthwhile. However - it may be worth investigating whether or not the emulation platform you use has been optimised for intel platforms or not - it's all well and good making the logical choice of component selection but if the emulator will start to run a slower codepath on non-intel systems the change may end up not being worth it.