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**[Unknown]** · 06-25-2016, 01:58 PM

The PSP was single core. Because of this, PSP games are not written to be compatible with multi-core. It wasn't a thing, so developers didn't do it.

That means that, right now, a 16-core phone with 1.6 Ghz (=24 total Ghz) would be worse in PPSSPP than a 2-core phone with 2.0 Ghz (= 4 total Ghz.)

So it's exactly right that it's like it's only using one core. It is actually using multiple cores, but the game code can only be run on one core.

Vulkan (like OpenGL) API support is in progress, and might allow better multi-core usage (OpenGL only allows drawing on a single thread too.) But, there will be limits on how much can be done.

Anyway, long story short, the LG G3's quad-core 2.5 GHz CPU is probably better for gaming than the LG G4's dual-core 1.8 Ghz CPU.

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