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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Slawek - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
I am not telling you to stop publishing PCMark 8, only to add Octane and Kraken. If published test says 'executed with Firefox 44' that is all information I need.Drumsticks - Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - link
Such a test wouldn't hold any value though. You can't make performance comparisons across generationswith different browsers. It might be useful to you but it's not a worthwhile test to run because there's no actual comparison to be made. A chart isn't worth making when outside variables can have a significant impact on the performance - is the 20% better performance of box A due to a 25% better browser engine/js performance? If so, that means the box is actually slower than the other comparison. And there's no way to know for sure where the benefit comes from.Samus - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
It's hilarious seeing a shipping product not boot to OOBE. All they had to do was run a generalize SYSPREP and make a WIM image of the SSD...a process that hasn't changed since Windows Vista (a decade.)Doesn't this machines spec's qualify for Microsoft heavily subsidized/free Windows 10 Home license, or do they require a shipping storage capacity below 64GB SSD/4GB RAM?
ganeshts - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
As I mentioned in another comment, it is likely that this unit does NOT qualify for the subsidized Win 10 install.I think the no-name Chinese manufacturers such as Voyo and Teclast need to step up the game - they have started shipping x86-based pre-built PCs only in the last couple of years, and they have lots to catch up on.
esterhasz - Thursday, March 3, 2016 - link
Apparently this activates, but only with a specific chinese version of windows (that can be set to English, though). Lon Seidman has a video on the issue on his channel.savagemike - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
just as a point of interest if you check out Lon Seidman reviews on Youtube he has a couple videos reviewing this. He also had issues with the pre-installed Windows with UAC disabled. In the end he was able to install a Chinese version of Windows (from MS itself) which did activate OK. He did this on a tip from a viewer about a special program Microsoft has for Chinese manufacturers or something. The OS had an English language option for installation but he had to choose the Chinese version to make media from - from Microsoft.Confusing I know but watch Lon's videos.
I think his copy out of the box was already activated though if I recall.
Rlo - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
"Allowing for the metallic segment to be on top to aid convective cooling would have definitely helped in making the thermal performance better."How about using this PC upside down? :)
ganeshts - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - link
Can't fault that idea, but the aesthetics wouldn't be as nice as it is right now :)HugsNotDrugs - Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - link
There is a command line in Windows that allows you to export all system drives to a USB with one command. Makes fresh installs much easier. On mobile so can't link you, but Google it.HugsNotDrugs - Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - link
*drivers