Processor Benchmarks
The first processor test doesn’t use Phoronix.
Here we’re testing the time it takes to build fooyin, a graphical music player which is coming along in leaps and bounds. It’s Luke’s go-to music player.
This is a useful test of processor speed as fooyin’s build process saturates a machine’s cores for almost the entire test.
The DreamQuest puts in another good performance, building the latest release of fooyin in just over 8 minutes, and only taking slightly longer than the HP tiny desktop PC. The Xeon with its 12 core 24 thread CPU romps home, completing the test in half the time. The less said about the i3-5005U the better.
There are many other processor benchmarks available, so we’ve picked a few noteworthy tests. We begin with Smallpt.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark smallpt
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.
The DreamQuest N100 pips the HP in this test. Another great result.
This test measures the time needed to compress a file (a .tar package of the Linux kernel source code) using BZIP2 compression. The results are another positive for the N100 Mini PC.
This is a benchmark looking at the CPU’s performance through a chess benchmark. This benchmark only uses a single core.
It’s a stellar performance from the DreamQuest N100 in this test, narrowly behind the N95 result. Over 7.4 million nodes per second is notable given the chip is only 6W TDP. Even a well spec desktop machine with an i5-10400 processor scores 7.9 million nodes per second.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark x265
This is a simple test of the x265 encoder run on the CPU with a sample 1080p video file.
The DreamQuest N100 doesn’t surpass the HP machine in this test but it’s not a bad result.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark x265
We repeated the test but this time with a sample 4K video file. Slow with any of the machines tested.
Next page: Page 3 – Memory / Graphics
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / System
Page 2 – Processor
Page 3 – Memory / Graphics
Page 4 – Disk / WiFi
Page 5 – Specifications
Complete list of articles in this series:
| DreamQuest N100 Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Part 1 | Introduction to the series with an interrogation of the system |
| Part 2 | Benchmarking the DreamQuest N100 Mini PC |