Lastest Yuzu Switch Emulator Builds Significantly Boost Performance on Both Low-end APUs and High-end Setups

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The most recent builds of the Yuzu Switch emulator offer significant performance improvements of up to 87% on both low-end APUs and high-end setups.

The team behind the Yuzu project has been making impressive progress since this open-source free Switch emulator was released in 2018. Not only has performance and compatibility been greatly improved, but the team behind the project has also successfully implemented local wireless multiplayer. An interesting tidbit is that, as covered earlier this week, the emulator also appears to be able to run the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom at 60FPS - copies of the game appeared out in the wild and people managed to get the game running on PC.

Yesterday, the Yuzu team published its progress report for the month of April, and in it, the team detailed some of the changes that have been implemented. One of the most substantial changes in recent builds is that most of the old buffer cache has been rewritten, resulting in performance gains of up to 87% (50% on average) and impressive rendering on normal GPU accuracy. Prior to this change, most titles required High GPU accuracy in order to render correctly. "Additionally, all this wizardry reduces bandwidth usage and boosts performance up to 87% for everyone (50% on average), from the low-end APUs to the high-end beasts", the team behind the project writes on its website. Comparison stats for the most popular Switch games have also been included in the report, highlighting the FPS boost in the newer Yuzu builds compared to mainline build 1407. As noted by the team, the mainline 1407 build uses High GPU accuracy, while the mainline 4121 build uses normal GPU accuracy. The results are impressive, to say the least, especially