Brix 4770 test

Quite often we get the question: How good is the BRIX compared to a ordinary PC. We can now bring you the ultimate test, where our lovely GB-BXi7-4770R takes on several desktop CPUs.

We guess that you will find the results from GB-BXi7-4770R quite impressive.

Please note that we also marked the Intel Core i3-4330 in below diagrams. The reason for this is simple: More or less you can compare the desktop i3 with our GB-BXi3-5010 based on the facts that our GB-BXi7-4770R performs very similar to the i7-4770K CPU.

BRIX is super powerful, and its extremely compact. The future is here.

Comparison Processor Configurations

CPU
AMD
Intel
A10-7850K
A8-7600K
A10-6800K
A8-6500T
Core i7-4770K
Core i5-4670
Core i5-4440
Core i3-4330
Core i7-4770R
Chip TDP
95W
65W/45W
100W
65W
84W
84W
84W
54W
65W
Current price
£130
£90
£105
£80
£240
£160
£130
£95
NA
Motherboard
ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
Gigabyte M4HM87P
BIOS
1.90
F5
NA
Chipset Driver
AMD Catalyst 13.12
Intel Inf 9.4.0.1027 and IMEI 9
DDR3 Memory
AMD Gamer Series 16GB (2x8GB)
G.Skill 8GB (2x4GB)
Memory Timings
10-11-11-28-2T @ 2,133MHz
9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,600MHz
9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,866MHz
11-11-11-28-2T @ 1,600Hz
Integrated Graphics
Radeon R7
Radeon R7
HD 8670D
HD 8550D
HD 4600
HD 4600
HD 4600
HD 4600
Iris Pro 5200
IGP driver
AMD Catalyst 13.30 RC3
Intel 15.33.8.64.3379
Disk Drive
Samsung 840 Pro 250GB
Intel mSATA 180GB
Chassis
Corsair Graphite 600T
Gigabyte Brix
Power Supply
Corsair AX760i
Gigabyte external
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

CPU and Memory Benchmarks

HEXUS PiFastOur number-crunching benchmark stresses a single core by calculating Pi to 10m places
CineBench R15Using Cinebench’s multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses all cores
wPrime 2.1.0Another number-crunching benchmark that stresses all available CPU cores/threads
AIDA64 v4.00.2805Benchmark that analyses memory bandwidth and latency

Multimedia Benchmarks

LuxMark 2.0An OpenCL rendering benchmark
MuseMage 1.9.6An OpenCL image-manipulation benchmark (64-bit)
HandBrake 0.9.9.1Free-to-use video encoder that stresses all CPU cores (64-bit)

System Benchmarks

PCMark 8 v2.0System-wide examination that uses the Home preset, run with OpenCL acceleration
3DMarkDX11, run at the Firestrike default test
SiSoft Sandra 2014Aggregate score that takes a composite of 12 system-wide benchmarks

Gaming Benchmarks

BioShock InfiniteDX9, 1,280×720 and 1,920×1,080 medium quality
GRID 2DX9, 1,280×720 and 1,920×1,080 high quality
Total War: Rome IIDX9, 1,280×720 and 1,920×1,080 medium quality

Miscellaneous Benchmarks

Power ConsumptionWhile idling and when running wPrime and GRID 2

Source: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/67021-intel-core-i7-4770r-22nm-haswell/

Benchmark: Single- and Multi-core

Hexus-pifastCinebench

wPrime

GB-BXi7-4770R outperforms all CPUs from Intel, except the Core i7-4770K.

 

Memory Analisys (AIDA64 v4.00.2805)

Memory-Read-Bandwidth

Memory-Write-Bandwidth

Memory-Latency

Please remember that Intel Core i7 uses 1866 MHz memory while our GB-BXi7-4770R uses 1600 MHz. 

 

Multimedia

HandBrake

LuxMark

We have a new king when it comes to combined power. Our GB-BXi7-4770R gets better results than the high-end Core i7 4770K CPU and its simply because of the more powerful iGPU (Iris PRO 5200 vs Intel HD 4600).

Musemage

 

System

PCMark-8---Home-Watt

Same trend. Our GB-BXi7-4770R gets better results than the high-end Core i7 4770K CPU and its simply because of the more powerful iGPU (Iris PRO 5200 vs Intel HD 4600).

SiSoft-Sandra-Watt

3DMark---Fire-Strike

GIGABYTE  GB-BXi7-4770R gets better results than the high-end Core i7 4770K CPU and its simply because of the more powerful iGPU (Iris PRO 5200 vs Intel HD 4600).

Performance Per Watt

PCMark-8---Home

SiSoft-Sandra-Watt

 

Gaming

BioShock-Infinite

Total-War-Rome-II

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Power Consumption

System-Power-Consumption---Idle

We feel these numbers speak for itself. You do not just save electricity by changing to BRIX, you also have much less heat. Perfect for so many environments, HTCP, Office, School and so on. 

System-Power-Consumption---3D-load