RPCS3 PlayStation 3 Emulator Gets Support for Zen 5 CPUs

Nomad76 · Monday at 2:27 PM

RPCS3, the popular PlayStation 3 emulator, has been updated to improve compatibility with upcoming AMD Zen 5 CPUs. The update addresses low performance and crash issues when running on Zen 5 CPUs by treating those processors as Zen 4. While this doesn't boost performance, it significantly improves stability. Users are encouraged to download the latest version (RPCS3 v0.0.32-16742 or newer) to benefit from this fix. Since 2023, RPCS3 has shown notable FPS improvements across various CPU types, including lower-end models.

If you're not familiar with RPCS3, it was founded by programmers DH and Hykem in May 2011. The emulator was publicly released in June 2012, quickly gaining attention from the open-source community and PlayStation enthusiasts. Today, RPCS3 is co-developed by new lead developers EladAsh and kd-11, along with many GitHub contributors.

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phints · Monday at 3:07 PM

Replayed Demon's Souls last year at 1440p 60fps on my (at the time 3 year old) 5800X and it ran basically perfect. A wonderful improvement from the 720p 25-30fps PS3 version. Zen 5 must have amazing performance on this emulator.

Ruru · Monday at 4:17 PM

phints said:
Replayed Demon's Souls last year at 1440p 60fps on my (at the time 3 year old) 5800X and it ran basically perfect. A wonderful improvement from the 720p 25-30fps PS3 version. Zen 5 must have amazing performance on this emulator.

Whoa, pretty nice improvement. And yeah, it is pretty sluggish on PS3...

natr0n · Monday at 4:29 PM

This emulator can make you feel like your modern system is outdated kinda. mostly cause of new instructions.

It's pretty awesome still.

GoldenX · Monday at 10:11 PM

natr0n said:
This emulator can make you feel like your modern system is outdated kinda. mostly cause of new instructions.

It's pretty awesome still.

That's just the cost of PowerPC translation.
It would run pretty fast with 7 overclocked iMac G3s.

A&P211 · Tuesday at 1:05 AM

But zen 5 is not out yet

sLowEnd · Tuesday at 5:24 AM

A&P211 said:
But zen 5 is not out yet

A few people have their hands on Ryzen AI 300 series laptops already

Makaveli · Tuesday at 3:34 PM

sLowEnd said:
A few people have their hands on Ryzen AI 300 series laptops already

And release date for the 6 and 8 core model is tomorrow.

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RPCS3 PlayStation 3 Emulator Gets Support for Zen 5 CPUs

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