Intel's Haswell NUC: D54250WYK UCFF PC Review
by Ganesh T S on January 3, 2014 4:25 PM ESTPerformance Metrics
The NUC was evaluated using our standard test suite for low power desktops / industrial PCs. Note that some of the benchmarks are pretty recent (such as x264 v5.0 and 3D Mark 2013). Loaner samples haven't been tested with these new benchmarks. Therefore, the list of PCs in each graph are not the same.
Windows Experience Index:
Our NUC build clocks in at 5.3 in Windows 8's experience index. The weak point here is the HD5000 graphics, as expected.
Users looking for more graphics power within a similar form factor would do well to look at Gigabyte's BRIX Pro which comes with Intel's Iris Pro graphics.
Futuremark Benchmarks:
Miscellaneous Benchmarks:
These are impressive benchmark numbers when the size of the system is taken into consideration.
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RealNinja - Friday, January 3, 2014 - link
Maybe not the most exciting computer around, but...would probably be more than sufficient for > 90% of office work-loads (email, word processing, spreadsheets, etc)DigitalFreak - Friday, January 3, 2014 - link
I actually have one of the first gen NUCs with the Core i3. My wife uses it in her home office and it works perfectly for what you mentioned. I have 2 1080p monitors hooked up to it via the HDMI ports.nevertell - Friday, January 3, 2014 - link
Intel is basically trying to miss every single possibility to increase thunderbolt adoption by not including it on all of their NUC's.darwinosx - Saturday, January 4, 2014 - link
Yeah what the hell Intel...they sure are screwing up thunderbolt and TB 2 is great.ddriver - Saturday, January 4, 2014 - link
Even a puny ARM SOC at 1/5 of the price of this product can handle 90% of the computing needs of the general population - messaging, browsing, media consumption and casual gaming.JohanAnandtech - Saturday, January 4, 2014 - link
I am sorry, but I could not disagree more. Your evaluation is probably based upon your mobile web experience on your smartphone. Most "normal" websites, the kind that you like to visit when you are siting behind a desktop, feel very slow on our Atom based pc (1.8 Ghz N2800) and reading some PDFs with some pictures is pure horror. And do not even try to print a word document with 20 pages ... that takes minutes. You would be surprised how fast you miss the high single threaded performance of modern CPUs.thexile - Saturday, January 4, 2014 - link
Double negative. So you actually agreeing with ddriver.skifiddle - Saturday, January 4, 2014 - link
Not goes with more, more than with disagree.wperry - Saturday, January 4, 2014 - link
Step 1) Make sure you're rightStep 2) Be a smartass
You neglected Step 1.
bji - Sunday, January 5, 2014 - link
I can't believe that people actually argue about such ridiculously stupid things."I could not disagree more" means that I am already disagreeing the maximum amount possible -- if I could disagree more, I would; but I can't because I already disagree as much as possible. Get it?