Gemini Lake SFF PC Showdown: Intel's June Canyon (NUC7PJYH) and ECS's LIVA Z2 Reviewed
by Ganesh T S on December 20, 2018 8:00 AM ESTNetworking and Storage Performance
Networking and storage are two major aspects which influence our experience with any computing system. This section presents results from our evaluation of these aspects in the Intel NUC7PJYH. On the storage side, one option would be repetition of our strenuous SSD review tests on the drive(s) in the PC. Fortunately, to avoid that overkill, PCMark 8 has a storage bench where certain common workloads such as loading games and document processing are replayed on the target drive. Results are presented in two forms, one being a benchmark number and the other, a bandwidth figure. We ran the PCMark 8 storage bench on selected PCs and the results are presented below.
There is really not much to choose from between the three systems - our choice of storage drives (Crucial BX300) was the same for both the Gemini Lake units, and that is reflected in the above graphs.
On the networking side, we restricted ourselves to the evaluation of the WLAN component. Our standard test router is the Netgear R7000 Nighthawk configured with both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks. The router is placed approximately 20 ft. away, separated by a drywall (as in a typical US building). A wired client is connected to the R7000 and serves as one endpoint for iperf evaluation. The PC under test is made to connect to either the 5 GHz (preferred) or 2.4 GHz SSID and iperf tests are conducted for both TCP and UDP transfers. It is ensured that the PC under test is the only wireless client for the Netgear R7000. We evaluate total throughput for up to 32 simultaneous TCP connections using iperf and present the highest number in the graph below.
In the UDP case, we try to transfer data at the highest rate possible for which we get less than 1% packet loss.
Despite all the WLAN modules being 1x1, the June Canyon NUC has much better numbers. In part, this is due to the availability of antenna diversity in the AC 9462 (which allows the better of two antennae to be utilized for communication).
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IntelUser2000 - Friday, December 21, 2018 - link
Well, the Gemini Lake SoC doesn't have gigabit LAN integrated. Since Gemini Lake integrates the chipset, it would have to be part of the chipset. Gigabit LAN might be too big for such a small die part.In their Core CPU platforms, the Gigabit LAN is in the separate chipset.
mode_13h - Friday, December 21, 2018 - link
Gigabit is like a million years old. There's no way it's too big.And the reason their desktop chips relegate it to South Bridge is because it doesn't *need* to be wasting space and I/O pins in the CPU. Especially since the board designer might decide to go with 10 Gig or whatever, instead.
coreai - Thursday, December 20, 2018 - link
J5005 on intel website shows max memory of 8GB yet you have installed 2x16GB... what’s the catch ?Death666Angel - Thursday, December 20, 2018 - link
You'd have to ask Intel. I have an Atom D2550 NAS that officially only supports 4GB. But I have 8GB installed without issues as have many others (Thecus N5550) My guess is that Intel doesn't want to impede on their lower end Core products with these Atom derived ones.ganeshts - Thursday, December 20, 2018 - link
That is funny, because I specifically installed 32GB just to show them that the spec was wrong :)Gemini Lake NUC has no issues supporting up to 32GB of RAM.
nandnandnand - Thursday, December 20, 2018 - link
So when is AMD going to get itself into one of these?HStewart - Thursday, December 20, 2018 - link
Never: Especially from Intel - but Intel has one with GPU integrated - but never with CPU.Does AMD have a super low power low cost chip like the Atom series. (Pentium)
RSAUser - Friday, December 21, 2018 - link
AMD has Athlone and I expect they will release truly low power with 7nm.mode_13h - Friday, December 21, 2018 - link
Oops, wrong again.https://www.anandtech.com/show/13053/sapphire-unve...
Real Ryzen cores should run circles around Goldmont+, and even a 3 CU Vega should stand up well to Intel's 18 EU HD Graphics (192 shaders vs. 144). Configurable TDP down to 12 W is comparable to the J5005's 10 W.
drzzz - Thursday, December 20, 2018 - link
The configuration comparison table on the first page is broken. It only shows the J5005 config for all possible choices in the right column. The J5005 is configured with what Intel says is an unsupported dimm size which begs the question how is this working? Actually the Pentium N5000 is also limited according to Intel to 8GB dimm modules. What is going on and why should I accept these results as valid if the configurations are not officially supported by Intel? No guarantee the unit I receive would be able to use 16GB modules and no guarantee it will perform like these test units. Disappointed by this article and the testing methodology used.