Intel Compute Stick Performance Surprises Under Ubuntu Linux

[droidhacker]

Color me impressed, those are impressive specs and more impressive performance for such a tiny computer. One wonders how the hell they fit 2GB of memory and a quad core processor into that tiny thing without it always being overheating. Not to mention it could perform this well on very low power. I want it.

Well... my cell phone has more CPU, more RAM, and doesn't have any air flow openings... yet it doesn't EVER overheat.

[droidhacker]

I'm not so impressed by this. The only interesting comparison was actually against the nvidia tk1, which is a quad cortex-a15. What I read from the tests is that it LOST as much as it WON against that competitor, which realistically puts it ON PAR with a LAST generation 32bit ARM... which will be obliterated by a CURRENT generation ARMv8 with an equal core count.

[speculatrix]

I believe that the compute stick has a recovery partition for reinstalling linux if things go wrong. Do you know if it is possible to download the recovery files/image if the stick's own copy gets corrupted?

Also, did you compile your kernel 4.1 with any special flags?

thanks

[rabcor]

Color me impressed, those are impressive specs and more impressive performance for such a tiny computer. One wonders how the hell they fit 2GB of memory and a quad core processor into that tiny thing without it always being overheating. Not to mention it could perform this well on very low power. I want it.

[duby229]

Michael, ever since you did the mobile CSS changes a few weeks ago, big system spec tables have caused horizontal scrolling. This article has a particularly wide table...

Also I noticed that in linux when I click on the top left link in the corner it opens to http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/, but in windows it opens to http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1...BE-JETSON99161

not sure what the difference is.

[eagleoneraptor]

Must buy, McAfee AntiVirus Plus included!!1!1!

[curaga]

Michael, ever since you did the mobile CSS changes a few weeks ago, big system spec tables have caused horizontal scrolling. This article has a particularly wide table...

[caligula]

People should remember that the tested mac mini is much faster than the slowest low end models. This ain't so bad

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Compute Stick Performance Surprises Under Ubuntu Linux

Since last week I've been testing the Intel Compute Stick, the quad-core Atom Z3735F Atom powered PC that's a little bigger than the size of an HDMI connector. In this article are some benchmarks of this $150 quad-core + 32GB eMMC + 2GB RAM tiny computer in a variety of benchmarks comparing it to other low-power x86 and ARMv7 hardware.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=21721