Last Updated on May 5, 2021
Processor Benchmarks
There’s a few different processors available for the HP EliteDesk. Our tests are run on an Intel Core i5-6500T, a quad-core desktop processor without hyperthreading. This is a sixth generation i5, launched in 2015. It’s a desktop processor with a low TDP of 35W .
There’s lots of processor benchmarks available, so we’ve limited the tests to 4. We’ll start 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 EliteDesk 800 and the Lenovo M93 are the quickest machines in the test. The Lenovo’s 4th generation Intel processor runs the EliteDesk’s 6th generation Intel chip pretty close.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark compress-pbzip2
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. This time the HP and Lenovo machines are neck-and-neck, with both machines completing this processor benchmark substantially faster than the mini PCs from AWOW and Gigabyte as well as the Asus laptop.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark crafty
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. Again the HP EliteDesk and Lenovo M93 offer significantly more powerful processors.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark x265
This is a simple test of the x265 encoder run on the CPU with a sample 1080p video file. All five hardware struggle on this benchmark with none of them offering encoding at respectable frames per second. This is the first test where the HP EliteDesk is rather disappointing against its peers.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / System
Page 2 – Processor
Page 3 – Memory
Page 4 – Graphics
Page 5 – Disk
Complete list of articles in this series:
| HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC | |
|---|---|
| Week 6 | Lightweight gaming on the HP EliteDesk |
| Week 5 | Multiple operating systems running on the HP EliteDesk |
| Week 4 | Hardware graphics acceleration when watching videos in Firefox |
| Week 3 | Multimedia on the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 USFF PC |
| Week 2 | Benchmarking the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 USFF PC with other machines |
| Week 1 | Introduction to the series including wiping Windows and installing Manjaro |
This blog is written on the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC.
This machine was made available by Bargain Hardware. Bargain Hardware retails refurbished servers, workstations, PCs, and laptops to consumers and businesses worldwide. All systems are completely customisable on their website along with a vast offering of clean-pulled, tested components and enterprise replacement parts.
| EliteDesk 800 G2 | Lenovo M93 | AWOW AK41 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Tiny Desktop PC | Tiny Desktop PC | Mini PC |
| Processor | Intel i5-6500T 2.50 GHz (Turbo 3.10 GHz) 4 cores and 4 threads | Intel i5-4590T 2.00 GHz (Turbo 3.00 GHz) 4 cores and 4 threads | Intel Celeron J4115 1.80GHz (Turbo 2.5 GHz) 4 cores and 4 threads |
| Chipset | Intel Skylake | Intel Haswell | Intel Gemini Lake |
| Memory | 16GB DDR3 (2133 MHz) | 16GB DDR3 (1600 MHz) | 8GB DDR4 (2133 MHz) |
| Graphics | Intel HD Graphics 530 | Intel HD Graphics 4600 | Intel UHD Graphics 605 |
| Disk | 256GB Samsung NVMe SSD | 240GB Crucial SSD | 128GB Foresee NVMe SSD |
| 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 |
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