The Intel Compute Stick (Core m3-6Y30) Review
by Ganesh T S on June 27, 2016 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Systems
- Intel
- Core M
- Skylake
- HDMI Stick
- Compute Stick
Performance Metrics - I
The Intel Core m3-6Y30 Compute Stick was evaluated using our standard test suite for low power desktops / industrial PCs. Not all benchmarks were processed on all the machines due to updates in our testing procedures. Therefore, the list of PCs in each graph might not be the same. In the first section, we will be looking at SYSmark 2014, as well as some of the Futuremark benchmarks.
BAPCo SYSmark 2014
BAPCo's SYSmark 2014 is an application-based benchmark that uses real-world applications to replay usage patterns of business users in the areas of office productivity, media creation and data/financial analysis. Scores are meant to be compared against a reference desktop (HP ProDesk 600 G1 with a Core i3-4130, 4GB RAM and a 500GB hard drive) that scores 1000 in each of the scenarios. A score of, say, 2000, would imply that the system under test is twice as fast as the reference system.
Since SYSmark 2014 was not processed on any of of the PCs in our comparison list, we present the scores obtained in the three iterations of the benchmark above. Obviously, a 7.5W TDP Skylake Core M is no match for a 54W Haswell Core i3. However, it still manages to delivery more than 70% of its performance for business workloads.
Futuremark PCMark 8
PCMark 8 provides various usage scenarios (home, creative and work) and offers ways to benchmark both baseline (CPU-only) as well as OpenCL accelerated (CPU + GPU) performance. We benchmarked select PCs for the OpenCL accelerated performance in all three usage scenarios. These scores are heavily influenced by the CPU in the system. Most of the PCs in our comparison list are equipped with anaemic Atom processors, and the Core m3-6Y30 manages to easily better them in performance despite the form factor limitation.
Miscellaneous Futuremark Benchmarks
3D Rendering - CINEBENCH R15
We have moved on from R11.5 to R15 for 3D rendering evaluation. CINEBENCH R15 provides three benchmark modes - OpenGL, single threaded and multi-threaded. Evaluation of select PCs in all three modes provided us the following results.
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Murloc - Monday, June 27, 2016 - link
irrelevant, video cards are one of the product categories that generate the most hype, if the reviewer isn't able to deliver anymore he could ship the card to somebody else.Still, if people come visit the site regardless of timely delivery of video card reviews, then it's not worth the effort.
prisonerX - Monday, June 27, 2016 - link
They cancelled it due to the childish whining.Ryan Smith - Monday, June 27, 2016 - link
It'll be a little bit longer, but it is coming.I have no excuses (none that would interest you guys, at least). But it is still a critical article, and one I intend to deliver soon.
In the meantime I have a request: could you guys please stop asking reviewers who aren't me where the 1080 review is? This is entirely my own doing, and harassing them isn't going to make it appear any sooner. In the meantime it's distracting from articles such as these, where the comments are supposed to be about the product.
Agent Smith - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link
Ryan, will your upcoming reviews of both the 1080 and 480 GPU's include their encode and decode capabilities?If so, will they include HVEC results?
Thanks!
Agent Smith - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link
Typo: meant HEVC (H.265)zlandar - Monday, June 27, 2016 - link
I've been wondering the same thing. There have been multiple articles on niche products which the vast majority of people could care less about yet a major video card launch goes unnoticed.Vorl - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link
Yeah, sadly, this has been going on for a while...There never was a review of the gtx 960, just a launch announcement. When I commented about it earlier this year I was told "it's coming" and here we are, waiting for the 1080 series...
I don't know what is happening with the video card reviews, but they sure aren't what they used to be or even remotely timely.
Anandtech used to release them the day of launch with full reviews, now it's weeks/months late, and sometimes never.
Michael Bay - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link
Well, maybe AT is just not a GPU site anymore.Furunomoe - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link
Nowadays, I only visit AnandTech to read about interesting gadgets. I have TPU for all of my PC hardware needs now.more-or-less - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link
It will come when it will come!They are short-stuffed, and that's obvious. Also the level of technical detail require time to write.