Gigabyte BRIX S GB-BXi5H-5200 Review

Written by Antony Leather

March 23, 2015 | 13:09

Tags: #80211ac #broadwell #broadwell-nuc #htpc #intel-nuc #intel-nuc-review #m2

Companies: #gigabyte #intel

Media Benchmarks

Download: here

The suite comprises an image editing test using Gimp, a video encoding test using Handbrake, and a multi-tasking test using 7-Zip to archive and encrypt a large batch of files while an HD movie plays in mplayer.

A score of 1,000 means that the test system is as fast as our reference PC, which used a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 at stock speed, 2GB of Corsair 1,066MHz DDR2 memory, a 250GB Samsung SpinPoint P120S hard disk and an Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP motherboard. The scoring system is linear, so a system scoring 1,200 points is 20 per cent faster than our reference system. Equally, a system scoring 1,200 is 4 per cent faster than a system scoring 1,150.

GIMP Image Editing

Website: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)

Far from being some kind of pr0n-filtering tool, Gimp is an open source image editing application - Gimp is an acronym of GNU Image Manipulation Program. Our test simulates how well a PC can manipulate a collection of large digital photos, and to achieve a low time requires a PC with a powerful CPU, plenty of quick memory and efficient hard disk drive access.

Image Editing

Application: Gimp

  • Intel Core i3-4130 (3.4GHz)
  • Intel Pentium G3258 (3.2GHz/4.8GHz)
  • Intel Core i3-3220 (3.3GHz)
  • Gigabyte BRIX S GB-BXi5H-5200 (Core i5-5200U)
  • Intel NUC D54250WYK (Core i5-4250U)
  • Intel NUC DC53427RKE (Core i5-3427U)
  • Intel NUC NUC5i3RYK (Core i3-5010U)
  • AMD A10-7850K (3.7GHz/4.4GHz)
  • AMD FX-8350 (4GHz/4.8GHz)
  • Intel NUC D33217CK (Core i3-3217U)
    • 1774
    • 0
    • 1705
    • 2469
    • 1537
    • 0
    • 1340
    • 0
    • 1274
    • 0
    • 1201
    • 0
    • 1181
    • 0
    • 1107
    • 1264
    • 1020
    • 1177
    • 835
    • 0
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Score, higher is better
  • Stock Speed
  • Overclocked

Video encoding with Handbrake

Website: http://handbrake.fr

We use the open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video encoder Handbrake to encode a HD video using the H.264 codec. This primarily tests multi-threaded CPU and memory subsystem performance.

Video Encoding

Application: Handbrake

  • AMD FX-8350 (4GHz/4.8GHz)
  • Intel Core i3-4130 (3.4GHz)
  • AMD A10-7850K (3.7GHz/4.4GHz)
  • Gigabyte BRIX S GB-BXi5H-5200 (Core i5-5200U)
  • Intel Pentium G3258 (3.2GHz/4.8GHz)
  • Intel NUC D54250WYK (Core i5-4250U)
  • Intel Core i3-3220 (3.3GHz)
  • Intel NUC DC53427RKE Core i5-3427U
  • Intel NUC NUC5i3RYK (Core i3-5010U)
  • Intel NUC D33217CK (Core i3-3217U)
    • 2701
    • 3164
    • 2272
    • 0
    • 2193
    • 2556
    • 1919
    • 0
    • 1810
    • 2775
    • 1783
    • 0
    • 1537
    • 0
    • 1550
    • 0
    • 1428
    • 0
    • 1110
    • 0
0
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Score, higher is better
  • Stock Speed
  • Overclocked

PCMark 8 Photo Editing V2
This workload involves making a series of adjustments to a set of photographs using ImageMagik - an open-source image processing library to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma. When a favourable balance is found, the changes are then applied to the rest of the images in the set. TIFF files up to 67MB in size are used.

PCMark 8 Photo editing V2

Load image matrix + adjusting times

  • Intel Core i7-4790K (4GHz/4.8GHz)
  • Gigabyte BRIX S GB-BXi5H-5200 (Intel Core i5-5200U
  • Intel NUC Kit NUC5i3RYK (Core i3-5010U)
    • 38
    • 36
    • 75
    • 0
    • 94
    • 0
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Seconds, lower is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

PCMark 8 Video Editing
Video Editing V2 Part 2 (Creative 3.0 test suite)

This workload uses FFmpeg to apply video enhancement filters to a high bitrate H.264 video and then encode it to a format suitable for distribution. The FFmpeg binary used is custom built by Futuremark using a development version of the source available from the project's code repository. The test applies a deshaking filter to a source video at 3,840 x 2160 (4K UHD) before scaling down and outputting at 1,920 x 1,080 (1080p).

PCMark 8 4K Video Editing

Part 2 test

  • Intel Core i7-4790K (4GHz/4.8GHz)
  • Gigabyte BRIX S GB-BXi5H-5200 (Intel Core i5-5200U
  • Intel NUC Kit NUC5i3RYK (Core i3-5010U)
    • 112
    • 107
    • 189
    • 0
    • 233
    • 0
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Seconds, lower is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

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