Intel Bay Trail-M feat. ECS LIVA X: Worthy of Desktop Status?

Written by Antony Leather

May 5, 2015 | 17:06

Tags: #mini-pc

Companies: #ecs #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
  • Intel Pentium G3258 (3.2GHz/4.8GHz)
  • Intel Core i3-3220
  • 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)
  • Intel NUC D33217CK (Core i3-3217U)
  • AMD A8-6500T
  • AMD Athlon 5350 (Kabini)
  • Intel Celeron N2808 (ECS LIVA X)
    • 1774
    • 0
    • 1705
    • 2469
    • 1537
    • 0
    • 1340
    • 0
    • 1274
    • 0
    • 1201
    • 0
    • 1181
    • 0
    • 1107
    • 1264
    • 835
    • 0
    • 731
    • 0
    • 544
    • 0
    • 422
    • 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

  • 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)
  • AMD A8-6500T
  • Intel NUC D33217CK (Core i3-3217U)
  • AMD Athlon 5350 (Kabini)
  • Intel Celeron N2808 (ECS LIVA X)
    • 2272
    • 0
    • 2193
    • 2556
    • 1919
    • 0
    • 1810
    • 2775
    • 1783
    • 0
    • 1537
    • 0
    • 1550
    • 0
    • 1428
    • 0
    • 1348
    • 0
    • 1110
    • 0
    • 1012
    • 0
    • 650
    • 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)
  • Intel Celeron N2808 (ECS LIVA X)
    • 38
    • 36
    • 75
    • 0
    • 94
    • 0
    • 321
    • 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)
  • Intel Celeron N2808 (ECS LIVA X)
    • 112
    • 107
    • 189
    • 0
    • 233
    • 0
    • 601
    • 0
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Seconds, lower is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Discuss this in the forums

Posted by Maki role - Tue May 05 2015 16:50

That's a really cool little box right there. Sort of feels a bit like the first forays that they made with the NUCs, low power and just about capable enough but not quite there. Now though and the NUCs are more than up to the task, yet the power usage has reduced even further. It'll be interesting to see where units like this are in maybe a generation or two's time.

Posted by gosh - Wed May 06 2015 04:27

i'd love a system like this under my TV running arcade games & media but i have a £60 8" win8 tablet with an atom that can handle that stuff and has HDMI out. other than business use i really can't see the point in this kind of low-powered NUC - so many better netbook/tablet options competing for the low end of the market or you could simply opt for a media server and a £20 smart stick

Posted by ModSquid - Thu May 07 2015 08:40

Out of interest, what was the £60 Win tablet you have?

Posted by Xir - Thu May 07 2015 12:53

200$ isn't that cheap, not by a long way.

for instance THIS laptop/Tablet is ~285$, but comes with an OS, a Full HD 11,6" screen, a keyboard and an extra 500GB harddisk on top of the 32GB SSD.

The Celeron N2940 it comes with is also passively cooled
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