Voyo V3 Review - A Fanless Intel Atom x7-Z8700 (Cherry Trail) mini-PC
by Ganesh T S on March 1, 2016 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Systems
- Intel
- Atom
- Passive Cooling
- Mini-PC
- Cherry Trail
Performance Metrics - I
The Voyo V3 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.
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. The Atom cores in the x7-Z8700 are obviously not as powerful as the Broadwell cores in the Core M-5Y10c in the LIVA Core for general workloads. However, thanks to the higher clocks and four physical cores, the performance is better than other dual-core Braswell PCs such as the Intel Celeron N3000-based ASRock Beebox N3000-NUC.
Miscellaneous Futuremark Benchmarks
The above scenario also plays out in other Futuremark benchmarks. The presence of a Broadwell-class GPU in the system also enables top-of-the-line performance in the 3D benchmarks (only getting edged out by Core M).
3D Rendering - CINEBENCH R15
CINEBENCH R15 is used for 3D rendering evaluation. It provides three benchmark modes - OpenGL, single threaded and multi-threaded. Evaluation of select PCs in all three modes provided us the following results. They faithfully follow what we have already seen in the Futuremark benchmarks.
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blepowerranger - Friday, March 4, 2016 - link
If Intel wants my money, they better make damn sure it works out of the box with Linux.So it is Intel's problem you see?
kyuu - Saturday, March 5, 2016 - link
Sure, but considering the small size of the die-hard Linux community, it almost certainly doesn't make sense to expend the resources supporting Linux for such a small revenue stream, when they can devote the resources to other areas with much more profitability.blepowerranger - Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - link
Hello 1995, welcome to 2016! A world where most phones, TV's, servers and all sorts of other stuff runs Linux. In a world where the die-hard Windows community is shrinking, it's ill advised to miss "the next big thing".Arnulf - Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - link
I wonder if Cherry Trail can run Windows 7. Can anyone elaborate on that?BrokenCrayons - Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - link
Intel doesn't supply Windows 7 drivers for Cherry Trail. The why behind that fact...I'm not sure. Maybe someone else can speak to that.Namisecond - Monday, March 7, 2016 - link
Try the windows 8 drivers (Assuming there are windows 8 drivers), sometimes it works well enough with windows 7.SeanJ76 - Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - link
Rip off of a NUC.....derpSeanJ76 - Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - link
That doesnt even run Windows Server.....what a joke!NUC's cost 350$ bare boned. Add a 240GB M2 SSD and a couple sticks of memory and your set.
speculatrix - Sunday, March 6, 2016 - link
Totally agree. I have a Toshiba Click Mini, a z3735f Baytrail convertible tablet which works well with Windows 8.1 and more recently Windows 10.I've got to the point where Linux is useable, with the keyboard dock and it's usb and SDHC slot working, but neither camera works, nor sound, nor Bluetooth. Rarely but annoyingly it locks solid, which i think is the video.
nathanddrews - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
Theoretically, the Type-C port could be used as a 4K60 transport if the display or adapter were available?