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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close - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
"The Type-C port in the system is only for power delivery and not available for data transfer"If the wiring for data is missing no adapter in the world will allow you to transfer any kind of data over that port. That is a power connector in the shape of USB Type-C.
nathanddrews - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
D'oh!watzupken - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
One of the rare manufacturer that seems to be able to keep the temperature in check without the chip throttling and in a slim profile. But to be honest, I wonder will these fanless systems last since they seem to run significantly hotter than one that has an active cooling.Nonetheless, this can be a great low power HTPC if the price is right.
Flunk - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
A lot of companies sell decent fanless Atom products.Teknobug - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
Kangaroo Plus.ET - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
Thanks for reviewing a Chinese PC. I recently started looking at GearBest, and looks like there are 2-in-1s, laptops and mini PC's which look quite attractive and sold at very good prices. Problem is with Chinese devices, it's hit and miss (I have a few Chinese brand tablets and phones), so it's good to have a professional review of such a device. I hope that you'll do some more reviews of what's available at GearBest.jimbo2779 - Thursday, March 3, 2016 - link
Do not go anywhere near gearbest. They are the absolute worst vendor. They do not have any stock and will hold your order to enough people have ordered something before arranging delivery.Their trustpilot reviews are faked, they have had hundreds of fake positive reviews removed and still hammer tge site with positive reviews. Look on any other site and you will see nothing but terrible experiences with them.
It took me 2 month to drag a refund out of them for something that was never delivered that I cancelled because after 2weeks beyond my delivery period they still had not sent the item. They sent some cheap accessories as proof of postage to try and pass that off as the full order to try and win the PayPal dispute.
Just do your research on gearbest before dealing with them. If you get your order within 2 months you are very lucky and they do not do refunds, you have force it via PayPal or credit card which drags the whole ordeal out unnecessarily.
itanium86 - Monday, March 21, 2016 - link
Just registered to second this comment. Do not engage business with them unless you are buying a flash drive or a neck strap. They have a horrifying customer relations. Took 9 months to get a package refused by customs and after they have received it back, they wouldn't refund me no more than 100USD (bought OPO64G when it was 400USD, late 2014).Teknobug - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
That is a very attractive device, now if only Intel could find a way to fit an i3-U or Core m3 or such into a fanless setup like that.Michael Wilding - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
Hi Ganesh,Are we seeing low GPU clock speeds (200-300MHz) when stressed due to TDP or Thermal throttling?