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2015-07-15, 18:49
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(2015-07-15, 18:45)Matt Devo Wrote: (2015-07-15, 18:42)Robotica Wrote: True for now.
Main feature I like for those Braswells over the Haswell is blazing fast Kodi GUI thanks to a fast SSD. All in all, this would set me €120 back compared to that HP machine.
I'm not sure how the SSD is Braswell specific, and the Haswell Celeron CPU is actually a lot faster than Braswell, which is only marginally faster than BayTrail
My HTPC experience is more than just the SoC in my HTPC. Disk I/O, connections, networking, form factor, noize, efficiency to name a few. And Braswell seems a clear winner on all those elements.
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2015-07-15, 19:01
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(2015-07-15, 18:57)oWarchild Wrote: (2015-07-15, 18:50)fritsch Wrote: Quote:I'm not sure how the SSD is Braswell specific, and the Haswell Celeron CPU is actually a lot faster than Braswell, which is only marginally faster than BayTrail
Are you sure? Where did you get those figures from?
I know this not a genuine comprehensive real benchmark but, software decoding the same 1080p H264 Hi10p sample resulted in both Haswell 2955U and Braswell N3150 using around 50% CPU overall. Haswell is definitely more powerful per core, but overall it's not so clear...
So they both easily manage with video playback for the masses. Try opening a folder with 100 10MB JPEG's and see the difference between opening those listings in GUI would show the multicore Braswell Kodi performance benefits over Haswell. Providing on-the-fly decoding, I think this is a great test scenario for Kodi 60 fps GUI performance.
Video playback is one thing, GUI performance is also very important for Kodi day to day usage.
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2015-07-15, 19:02
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Ah! CPU ... I misread it. Yes perfectly fine. Thought it was GPU :-)
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Braswell is _not_ faster CPU wise, not at all. Also it's not faster GUI wise ...
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I can only suggest: Don't buy hw at all today - that should have 1080p HVEC 10-bit support ... buy it in ~ 1 year :-) and buy the cheapest thing that does the other jobs right now.
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2 Threads does not mean 2 times the performance in real world cases :-)
In fact it's damn hard to write a non academic code, that scales 100% linearly with the cpu cores. So there is always some loss.
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Yes - if it's a choice between two CPUs with the same benchmarks, but with one hitting that with half the number of cores, I'd go for the one with fewer cores, as it is more likely to deliver snappier real world performance.