Hi guys Chris here back with Intel's note now this is the Gemini Lake version
I'm looking at but the slightly more powerful one so this one here has the
pentium J 5005 whereas the model I looked at last week is the more weaker
version so this is a quad core that as dual call this one right here and that's
the cell run J 4005 so the dual causes ideal for really really light tasks but
if you want better multitasking performance and better graphics you'd go
for this model here which in fact is the one I feel to definitely go for now the
GPU on this has 50 megahertz more turbo which may not seem a lot but it also has
18 executional cause where this one here has 12 executional core so it's a more
powerful GPU the turbo is the same it's 2.7 gigahertz but it can hold the 2.7 on
4 cause there so it does bolster up the performance and with heavy multitasking
on my tests I found it actually held up quite well and even let me edit 4k video
which is something that really did surprise me so 4 ports we've got quite a
few we've got 4 USB 3 ports on this and the front you can see we've got one
there that's colored yellow this one outputs power even in sleep so if you
need to charge your device the power button also has incorporated within it
an IR receiver so you can get an optional remote for this they control it
as say a media ton it'll me media PC you've got two little microphones there
too you can see there's little dots either side now if you ever look at the
back we've got an exhaust vent here so it is actively cooled there is a fan
inside here but to comment on the fan noise it is really good you will not
hear this fan only if you put your ear up to it even under 100% load it does
not surpass 80 degrees and it does not have any thermal throttling and even
then the fan it's quite hard to hear especially if you have this hooked up
behind the TV with the included visa mount or a monitor you're really not
going to hear this fan they've done an excellent job with the cooling on this
one Intel now you see to that on the side we have an SD card slot this is
full-speed card that supports it's white up via a USB 3 hub so you don't have any
issues with speed limitation so you can use the fastest cards out there and you
can get really and speeds out of that so for storage
we've got a 2.5 inch storage slot sata3 inside that is it we do not have em
setter or your MDOT two spec s his D slot on this which I feel is a bit of a
letdown if it had that it would be great but Intel wants you to get se the core
i5 models and different models if you wanted that slot then you can put an SSD
or a spindle harddrive in here of course that's going to be a little bit slower
but it all depends on your needs now for RAM you can put either 4 gigabytes up to
16 gigabytes that I have tested it does work but it must be double data rate
full spec 2400 megahertz so that's the big improvement worth the Gemini Lake as
the round speeds gone from 1600 double data rate 3 up to double data rate for
now that 2400 so it's a big boost in performance as you see later on in the
review now I'm not going to go into a lot of detail with the unboxing if you
want to see more details on unboxing please check out the review of the dual
core version so first start out with having a look at the CPU so this one
here is faster than the dual-core version I looked at that dual core
jiminy Lake that J 4005 that only had two calls with a maximum turbo the same
turbo actually 2.7 gigahertz but of course now quad core performance is
better but not only that there's a big change with the GPU so the GPU is the
new HD graphics 605 so it's 50 megahertz faster but the main key difference is
right there right here you can see 18 executional calls instead of the 12 so
this is going to help with performance and it really does show when you take a
look at benchmarks when I will show you in just a second not only that graphics
performance in game says that is the big step up with this particular model here
so one other thing I wanted to point out is I'm running 16 gigabytes of RAM so
that does work even though Intel's website states 18 gigabytes max the
maximum throughput the maximum link speed and this is about what I can get
with an FTP file transfer test is 350 megabits per second is all you're gonna
get out of this Wireless even though it is a newer chip with Bluetooth 5 which
is great it's not the fastest one I would have loved for them to have put a
gigabit internet card on here but that probably would
the price right out if you want faster speeds use the the land port as well
because this Gigabit LAN that this has on board so benchmark so just start out
here with the Geekbench for score you can see this is a step up from the J
4500 vision which is right here so that get single core score is the same
because it's really the same architecture it's the same turbo as well
as I mentioned 2.7 gigahertz but look at the multi school core difference so 3444
on the J 4005 and then this goes right up to five thousand two hundred and
eleven that's still quite a low score remember this is a low-end chip and the
performance is very similar now to a two three well actually a few years old now
about four year old core i3 or the core m35 white in that I reviewed some time
ago now the big difference in performance is the GPU as I mentioned
because it's got those extra core slightly faster so it gets the dual core
version around 8200 but look at the difference now stepped right up to
eleven thousand to one hundred and sixty-four so that's a really nice
increase boost there now the score is pathetic compared to a dedicated GPU of
course this is really really low but for the type of hardware that says this
being a Gemini Lake which is basically like the old atoms it's actually not too
bad and definitely a huge step up now just like the dual-core model I want to
test out the system performance with multitasking in real world stuff so not
a synthetic benchmark I'm just trying to fill up the RAM right here so I've got
it almost full Wow so I've got twelve point four gigabytes of it full here and
what I'm running at the moment is I've got Photoshop open so yes you can do
minor edits in Photoshop but it's not going to be super fast I recommend at
least for Photoshop and Premiere prime things that they at least have a Core i5
CPU so you can do basic stuff you just need a lot of patience really when it
comes to Photoshop and bear in mind - I'm multitasking really heavily for this
particular CPU at the moment I Premiere Pro they do have loaded I'll show you
more on that in just a second or what you can do with it chrome here with many
tabs open and swapping between those tabs you can see
is a little sluggish not the fastest you'll see and same goes for scrolling
speed you can see a little bit of stutter there but not too bad
considering I am running so much at the moment I also have edge open there and
I've got the emulator there compiling shaders the case shaders there and that
is very demanding on the CPU so it's handling this real life
workload really well it's just so much going on at the moment and it is bogging
down a little but it's really surprising me the performance is actually pretty
good because I am quite a heavy multitasker and I find that for a Gemini
Lake this is doing particularly well so my test out the system performance hang
and a load up my website here see how long this takes continue on and just to
show you that really the scrolling and edge is very smooth so the best browser
experience with the juvenile lake and just like the apollo lake and even atoms
is still edge edge still runs the smoothest on these particular chipsets
now I do have some documents open here so first up is a spreadsheet I wanted to
show you so this one here runs fine so this kind of hardware is gonna run your
spreadsheets you Doc's perfectly fine if you're going to be searching massive
huge spreadsheets then go make sure you go with an SSD as your main drive
because a hard drive will really slow things down and document edits it's
gonna be perfectly fine for this so I'm using OpenOffice here and no issues with
that whatsoever you can see I'm still pushing that CPU really quite hard it's
almost maxed out and with a lot of things still going on but I will load
jellyfish right here so this is a hundred and eighty me whip is sick in 4k
HEV C codec file 10 bit and you can see a little bit of a stutter at the start
and then then is perfectly fine and smooth and that is running there 30
frames so no issues with that same goes for Cody Cody playback is all good we've
got native a TVC codec support so that's decoded and the hardware same with vp9
codecs something with head since the Apollo Lake now HDR supports and another
thing that is doesn't seem to be enabled on this I think the hardware can clearly
to me the hardware indoors but Intel doesn't seem to have this and
with the drivers so I couldn't get that to work you can also get Netflix 4k and
Full HD as well you just need to install all the codecs and things and go through
and use the Windows Store application for Netflix so really good and
reasonable powerful a media player now for a quickie YouTube 4k streaming test
so set it to the 4k setting which it is actually already on and Nabal the stats
here and you can see drop frames nothing so far which is good but normally when
you go to full screen in wool no okay I expected it to drop frames because the
dual-core model did say the J 4005 will drop a few frames but this seems to be
rock-solid so really good for 4k YouTube streaming so video editing 1080p is fine
it's not too bad the export times are as you'd expect quite slow but I'm editing
a 4k clip here and all the timeline performance it's actually so much better
than I thought it would be considering this week Hardware just give you a
playback example status nothing it's only at half resolution of 4k but that
is working let's see I've got it fine now I've noticed that sometimes the
preview window here will completely freeze up on you now export times as it
expect for this particular hardware is going to be very very slow and I'll give
you a quick example what to expect for just about a one-minute clip it's going
to take about five minutes to export one minute of 4k that's the YouTube 4k
preset so I don't really recommend editing 4k videos on this particular
hardware but I just wanted to test it out so you can look now at Counter
Strike global Offensive and this is 720p lowest settings and there's a lot of
players on the server
I feel it's doing all right this isn't bad at all considering honey players are
on at the moment now if there weren't so many players on then you see what we
sing now about 45 frames per second so in the first Gemini Lake review that I
did that was the dual core model I didn't check out any emulators but I got
a lot of comments people saying please check out some emulators just this one
I'm gonna check out so this is the only emulator that I personally run and this
one here is a Wii U emulator it's called sea EMU this is version 1.1 1 and you
can see at the moment we're getting around 40 54 frames per second 55 that's
actually pretty good considering it does seem a little kind of slow so you
probably look at some of those graphics packs and things to have just tweaked
things up a little bit but overall very playable this one's running smooth I'll
check out now Zelda breath of the wild that one's a lot more demanding as if
that's gonna be playable okay so for Zelda it's not looking good at all what
only getting like five frames per second so this is really just unplayable you
really do need a dedicated GPU I feel for this game this title now you might
be able to tweak things with those graphic packs I haven't had enough time
to test that so there's probably maybe some lower settings and things you can
enable to hopefully boost that framerate but you know this is just not good so
let's step things up even further now with Grand Theft Auto 5 is to say
reasonably demanding title especially for this chipset considering and it's
doing not too bad I'm you can see 16 frames per second that's really quite
choppy and laggy and slow but I have seen it get up to 30 frames per sec you
know I think it does surprisingly well again considering that this is only a
Gemini Lake this is you know a low watt process has a quad core but this is
handing this so much better than the dual-core version that I checked out I
mean if your cone vision didn't really have even up to this kind of frame rate
that was struggling and only got like about 10
or twelve frames per second now if you understood in the resolution its 800 x
600 and of course the lowest settings I have not applied any of those scripts
there are some scripts out there you can apply to remove some of the shadows and
things like that to boost the performance of it so you might get it
closer up towards hopefully 30 frames per second but I kind of doubt that but
even so surprising performance here this is really good to see that the graphics
performance has stepped up quite a bit from the move from a polar lake to
gemini lake and a quick peak here at fallout 4 so as expected very low
framerate this is on the lowest setting 720p you may be able to get some
improvements if you can run it at 800 x 600 lower resolution but I wouldn't call
this playable it's just too choppy but still this Hardware considering is doing
really well to be able to run it with this framerate so let's talk about the
thermals now so it barely gets warm to the touch
hardly at all I mean I've had this running all night I lived it actually
running Grand Theft Auto just running the whole time and the temperatures are
pretty good I mean grandpa thought it was on from not the whole 16 hours but
for about 6 hours and you can see here the average temperature is 64 degrees
Celsius and at 78 - well 79 as the maximum you will see so
this is really good no somos throttling fan noise is really really good on this
it's just like the dual-core version so you just hear a tiny little hum and when
it's even gaming gaming it's a little bit more than just a hum but it's so
quiet if you have this behind a TV or a monitor you are not even going to hear
it so perfectly fine to keep this until nuke on 24/7 I feel the cooling is
perfect now when we look at the power consumption figures here so this is the
what's that it's used so maximum wattage is around sixteen point four so that's a
little bit more than the Polo Lake that I typically saw it maxed out that one at
least the entity 450 at around about 15 now you can probably add an extra waddle
too if you plug in an external hard drive things like that so maximum I
would estimate to be proximately 18 to 19 watts max that this is going to pull
so very low power consumption when you compare that to a normal typical Tower
PC with a dedicated graphics card and
you like that alright to wrap up the video
as you seen for their some surprising performance when you have a look at okay
the synthetic benchmarks you see Geekbench for oh that's nothing amazing
that will be horrible but when you do multitasking in heavy multitasking that
I was doing I'm surprised that I could switch between the tabs quite easily
edit videos and just do lots of things at the same time now that probably is
aided by the fact that I was using 16 gigabytes of RAM so do bear that in mind
consider that maybe with 8 gigabytes or 4 of course it's definitely not going to
be as good there because it needs more RAM windows but over the performance is
good now I've noticed about an increase depending on what game it is of up to
around 35 30% over say the Apollo takes graphic performance
now the massive difference we're getting of course is the RAM speeds and that is
aiding and benefiting that GPU mostly not really the CPU cause now I did some
tests as well and those noticed that when I ran them for example resident
evil' benchmark but I got a very similar result around 25 frames per second
versus the 26 or 27 that I got almost on this model here so that's not much of an
increase but running games like Grand Theft Auto 5 with almost semi playable
frame rates that's kind of unheard of with previous generations definitely
with this kind of mini PC so what does this mini PC really for I feel it's just
for light computing tasks very light gaming spreadsheets make a good little
server very light file server or something like that you can keep it on
24/7 it doesn't consume a lot of power definitely as a media PC really good for
a little media center things there playback with your fork a file but
unfortunately it doesn't support HD I don't know whether HDR sorry is going to
be added by Intel or not hopefully that's going to be patch that's gonna be
changed with a driver update because this hardware can do it that's whether
or not Microsoft sorry not Microsoft that Intel
wants you to actually be doing that because they probably want you to buy a
more powerful version so not for gamers if you were gaming you want a mini PC
for gaming then you go for something like the cable 8g that incorporates AMD
radeon GPU as well with the intel or much faster core i5 and i7 so that's one
to go for for gaming but for everything else for I think for personal computing
for most people something like this is absolutely wonderful
now price-wise it Supercheap when you factor in the RAM
and it depends on your configuration of course so if while I went for I went for
an 850 Evo is his D and then 16 gigabytes of RAM that pushed the price
up to close to about 400 or so us in total so that's when it starts to get a
little bit pricey now for around 328 us you can get something like this that I
got from how to express this has a core i5
8250 you and also has in the MC storage which is much much faster so you can use
really fast it says these in this and that's a really fast mini PC and a lot
better for video editing and things like that but of course we add on the cost of
the RAM and there is this D then it's a probably about close to 600 us so it all
depends on what your needs are so should you still get the dual-core version I
don't think you should in fact I don't even know why Intel has this dual core
version when the price difference is about 20-30 US you're so much better off
getting the quad core version that's the way we recommend to go for arroyo
fantastic little mini PC considering the hardware very good thermals great fan
noise plenty of ports just the shame that it does not have an MDOT two SATA 3
SD slot as well in here this would be then I feel a perfect Jimmy I like
little mini PC thanks a lot for watching review and I hope to catch you back in
the channel later on with the unboxing and preview of this mini PC I was
talking about the core i5 model thanks a lot for watching hopefully you like this
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