Last Updated on September 6, 2020
There’s lots of processor benchmarks available, so I’ve limited the tests to 4. Let’s have a look at Smallpt first.
Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library.
Like the previous test, the AK1 is almost twice as quick at completing this benchmark compared to the BXBT-1900 machine. The UX305FA laptop and NYI3 run the AK41 quite close, both hampered by only having 2 cores.
pbzip2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines.
This test measures the time needed to compress a file (a .tar package of the Linux kernel source code) using BZIP2 compression. Again the AK41 is the quickest to complete the test, but the Gigabyte Mini PC doesn’t lag as far behind compared to earlier benchmarks. And the UX305FA laptop and NYI3 Mini PC put in an admirable result bearing in mind they have 2 fewer cores than the other machines (they do have hyperthreading).
Crafty is a chess program directly derived from Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships.
This is a benchmark looking at the CPU’s performance through a chess benchmark. This benchmark only uses a single core. The Asus UX305FA laptop wins this benchmark by a short head.
You might be wondering what top-end processors achieve on this test. The Core i9 10900K and Ryzen 9 3900X score 10.4 and 9.3 million nodes per second respectively.
This is a simple test of the x265 encoder run on the CPU with a sample 1080p video file. All four hardware struggle on this benchmark with none of them offering encoding at respectable frames per second. The AK41 is quicker than the other Mini PCs tested.
The Core i9 10900K and Ryzen 9 3900X score 72.1 and 60.9 respectively on this test, benefiting hugely from having a lot more and faster cores available. And they cost an arm and a leg more.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / System
Page 2 – Processor
Page 3 – Memory
Page 4 – Graphics
Page 5 – Disk
| AWOW AK41 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Mini PC |
| Processor | Intel Celeron J4115 running at 1.80GHz (Turbo 2.5 GHz) with 4 cores and 4 threads |
| Chipset | Intel Gemini Lake |
| Memory | 8GB DDR4 (2133 MHz) |
| Graphics | Intel UHD Graphics 605 |
| Disk | 128GB Foresee NVMe M.2 SSD F900F128GBH |
| AWOW NYI3 | Gigabyte BXBT-1900 | Asus UX305FA | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Mini PC | Mini PC | Laptop |
| Processor | Intel Core i3-5005U 2.00GHz 2 cores 4 threads | Intel Celeron J1900 2.00GHz (Turbo 2.416 GHz) 4 cores 4 threads | Intel Core M-5Y10c 0.8GHz (Turbo 2.00GHz) 2 cores 4 threads |
| Chipset | Intel Broadwell | Intel Atom Z36xxx/Z37xxx | Intel Broadwell-U-OPI |
| Memory | 8GB DDR4 (1600 MHz) | 4GB DDR3 (1600 MHz) | 8GB DDR3 (1866 MHz) |
| Graphics | Intel HD Graphics 5500 | Intel HD 2GB | Intel HD Graphics 5300 |
| Disk | 128GB Kingston NVMe | 250GB Samsung SSD 860 | 128GB SanDisk SSD |
Complete list of articles in this series:
| AWOW AK41 Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Week 11 | Video consoles: SNES emulation |
| Week 10 | Running TeamViewer with AWOW AK41 as the host |
| Week 9 | Astronomy on the AK41 including Celestia, Stellarium, Skychart, and more |
| Week 8 | Recording video with OBS Studio |
| Week 7 | Home computer emulators: FS-UAE, ZEsaurUX, Hatari, Clock Signal |
| Week 6 | Web browsing with Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Vivaldi |
| Week 5 | Gaming: SuperTuxKart, AwesomeNauts, Retrocycles, Robocraft, DOTA 2, and more |
| Week 4 | Run multiple operating systems on the AK41 |
| Week 3 | Video and audio playback looking at hardware acceleration |
| Week 2 | Benchmarking the AK41 with 3 other low power machines |
| Week 1 | Introduction to the series including wiping Windows and installing Manjaro |
This blog is written on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC.
Were the tests run with the powersave CPU scaling governor?
Yes, all tests on each machine used the powersave governor. While it’s possible the benchmarks would be (slightly) higher with the performance governor, the powersave governor is the default on the system.