CompuLab's Airtop 3 Is The Most Powerful Fan-Less Computer We've Tested Yet

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CompuLab's Airtop 3 Is The Most Powerful Fan-Less Computer We've Tested Yet

The past month and a half we have been putting CompuLab's Airtop 3 computer through some demanding benchmarks and a variety of endurance workloads. With the Airtop 3 under test loaded with an 8-core / 16-thread Xeon processor, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics, and 64GB of RAM with NVMe SSD storage there were some concerns over thermal throttling and if this fan-less industrial PC design could really deal with the generated heat. But after all of this testing, the Airtop 3 continues running strong and another shining example of CompuLab's engineering strength.

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[tildearrow]

The Skylake NUC hitting 100 degrees...? At 14nm what's the max temperature these circuits can hold before they break?

[tildearrow]

Also, dav1d results because it's September 2019 and they still haven't upgraded to FPS: (it's as easy as dropping the sys.time cheat and using my bc-using patch to transform sys.time into FPS)

IPC3: 116.11fps
NUC: 218.36fps
Airtop: 227.6058fps
Airtop3: 427.4fps

[muncrief]

It needs a giant fan to blow all the ugly Intel/NVIDIA stuff out, and suck all the beautiful AMD stuff in!

[bdcomp]

It needs a giant fan to blow all the ugly Intel/NVIDIA stuff out, and suck all the beautiful AMD stuff in!

I am wondering why there is no new AMD system from CompuLab for a long time?...

[AndyChow]

The Skylake NUC hitting 100 degrees...? At 14nm what's the max temperature these circuits can hold before they break?

100°C. That's the i7-6770HQ tjunction.

[tildearrow]

100°C. That's the i7-6770HQ tjunction.

It is a miracle that his NUC hasn't died despite reaching (and most likely surpassing) that temperature.

[Michael]

Also, dav1d results because it's September 2019 and they still haven't upgraded to FPS: (it's as easy as dropping the sys.time cheat and using my bc-using patch to transform sys.time into FPS)

IPC3: 116.11fps
NUC: 218.36fps
Airtop: 227.6058fps
Airtop3: 427.4fps

I believe dav1d has added their FPS patch (finally) but hadn't introduced a new version yet.

[tildearrow]

I believe dav1d has added their FPS patch (finally) but hadn't introduced a new version yet.

By "they" I mean you.

OK, let's wait until 0.4...

[Michael]

By "they" I mean you.

OK, let's wait until 0.4...

I was talking about a tagged upstream dav1d release that has the patch in place, AFAIK they hadn't tagged a release yet with that patch, which I try to stick to tagged versions.