The Intel NUC8i7HVK (Hades Canyon) Review: Kaby Lake-G Benchmarked
by Ganesh T S on March 29, 2018 1:00 PM ESTGaming Notebooks Compared
One of the most common comments posted in response to mini-PC reviews is that the value proposition of an equivalent notebook is much higher than that of the PC. While there are plenty of factors that might make this comparison invalid, we thought it would be interesting to see how the NUC8i7HVK fares against premium gaming notebooks. Towards this, we borrowed a few benchmarks from our notebook reviews and processed them on the NUC. In the graphs below, we also have the gaming mini-PCs on which the benchmarks were processed. First, we will look at some artificial benchmarks before moving on to the games themselves.
3DMark Revisited
GFXBench
Dota 2
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
The takeaway from these results is that the performance of the Radeon RX Vega M GH roughly slots around GTX 970M. There are some benchmarks such as Dota 2 that are more sensitive to the CPU power, and in those cases, we find that the NUC8i7HVK actually comes in far ahead of other gaming notebooks that use processors with TDPs of 45W or lower.
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nul0b - Thursday, March 29, 2018 - link
Can Linux run on this? Ubuntu? Is their driver support?I can run Ubuntu on my current NUC but was wondering w/ this new Vega GPU if it can run Linux? Any benchmarks or info? Please begin providing this.
mode_13h - Friday, March 30, 2018 - link
Um, yeah. Look before you leap, on this one. Definitely don't just assume it'll work, because AMD still seems to be running behind on getting support for their GPUs into the mainline kernel.Maybe, with proprietary drivers, on Ubuntu 18.04?
Lolimaster - Friday, March 30, 2018 - link
I wouldn't call Prime95+Furmark a load test, it's totally unrealistic.How about giving it a BF1 run + HEVC reproducing on MPC or a CB15 run?
Lolimaster - Friday, March 30, 2018 - link
Specially for gpu's, you'll never get that kind of load during a game session.ganeshts - Friday, March 30, 2018 - link
Yes, that is for sure - we adopt a power virus test to determine the suitability of the thermal solution of the system. The AIDA stress test, on the other hand, is more realistic - we have graphs for both, so that readers can understand and interpret the behavior under both scenarios.Trixanity - Friday, March 30, 2018 - link
I believe that hardware acceleration is broken in VLC on Vega. It should be fixed in 3.0.2 which seems to have been delayed to iron out a lot of bugs that has plagued the 3.0 release.M9 - Friday, March 30, 2018 - link
Hi, I'm pretty much a novice seeking advice, i find this interesting for a small computer for my 5th wheel camper. Electrial needs may be an issue? The unit has 50 amp service, but many campgrounds only provide 30 amps. Keep in mind that's what's available for the invite unit includingHot water heater, AC, fridge & an electric fireplace, LED lighting so I don't think lighting is much of an issue. No 4K UHD disc playback is a disappointment, but honestly I can't really tell it's any better on my Samsung series 6 4K TV than a regular BLU-RAY upgraded too 4K. Any thoughts or advice appreciated, thanks.
Zingam - Friday, March 30, 2018 - link
50 Amps? Are you going to power a metal smelting furnace?M9 - Saturday, March 31, 2018 - link
No, just saying I don't have as much electricity available as a typical house or apartment.HStewart - Friday, March 30, 2018 - link
Just FYI, I was able to purchase a new Dell XPS 15 2in1 but my cost was quite expensive - almost $2500.But I purchase the i7 4K version with 512G SSD. - the base i5 version was $1499 not $1299. I guess after CES 2018, Dell decided to jack the price up.
I was happy to see the 3D rendering performance high on this NUC - even though my plan is using the following applications
1. Lightwave 3D 2018
2. Photoshop CS 5 ( yes older version - don't care for new stuff )
3. Painter 2018 ( new to it )
I am suppose to get it around 18th of April - I can retry my Lenovo Y50 as my primary machine.