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The Raspberry Pi 2 scored 318 in the Google Octane V2 test and 14,582.8 in SunSpider 1.02. The Chrome browser was not available on Ubuntu. The warning to you is, don’t expect to run any games outside of rudimentary Flash games on the Compute Stick without having a frowny face.įor comparison, we ran a couple of basic browser benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 2 unit using the Epiphany browser. The Yoga Tablet 10 actually operates at 1066MHz and is fairly anemic in synthetic memory tests. Intel helps ameliorate this using DDR3/1333, though. Rather than dual-channel mode, the Atom Z3735F runs in single-channel, which means memory bandwidth gets the short stick. I attributed this to the memory bandwidth on the unit.

Running 3DMark’s Ice Storm Unlimited, I saw the Compute Stick about 25 percent slower than a typical Atom Z3745 tablet. Where the Compute Stick loses most ground to its contemporaries is in graphics performance.

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The quad-core Atom in the Compute Stick also outpaced the HP Streambook with its dual-core Atom Celeron N2840.įurther reading: Mini PC invasion: 10 radically tiny computers that fit in the palm of your hand I compared it to a Lenovo Yoga tablet 2 10-inch packing the Atom Z3745 inside, and performance was close. Does it give up a lot to get into a case the size of a fat USB stick? Not really. If you really do need to store a ton of data on the Compute Stick, there is that microSD slot, right?ĭespite this, I know you want to know what kind of performance you can squeeze out of a stick computer. I measured it at 167MB/s reads and 73MB/s writes in sequential file access using Crystal Disk Mark. The good news is that at least it seems fairly fast for a low-cost eMMC. Depending on your needs that’s not much to play with. With 32GB of eMMC, you end up with about 15.5GB available after installing Windows updates. The biggest problem on the Compute Stick will be storage. A generic two-watt unit did fine, though. Don’t expect to use any old wall wart, though: I tried an Apple iPhone charger as a power source and was greeted with reboots. This means you can get your your computing on in 2.5 watts of power, which is probably as much as your phone eats while being charged. Intel gives you a typical 2-amp wall wart with a USB port on it. Overall power consumption is superb: The Compute Stick normally consumed half an amp in use and only rarely spikes up to 1.5 amps. In ports, you get a single USB 2.0, a MicroSD slot rated to work with 128GB cards, and a MicroUSB port used only to provide power. Neither Intel nor Microsoft would comment on OS pricing for this new class of device, so it makes me wonder whether screenless sticks will qualify for WinBing.

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Windows 8.1 is technically “free” on tablets with screens under 8 inches, but there’s no screen on the Compute Stick.

Since it doesn’t seem like the $40 difference can be attributed just to RAM and eMMC, I asked Intel if the cost of an OS was a factor.