Intel Atom E3815 Performance

[Patrick]

As part of my "buy random stuff on ebay to benchmark for STH" campaign I recently cam across the Intel Atom E3815. It seems to be a single core Slivermont at 1.46GHz and a single DDR3 memory channel. It also seems to be a 5w SoC so certainly interesting from a power perspective. The board also comes with a 4GB eMMC module onboard (see here)so I am guessing you can just add a DDR3L stick and be running.

OEM XS has these on sale for $105 and best offer $79: Intel DE3815TYBE BLKDE3815TYBE NUC Board DDR3L USB3 USB2 HDMI VGA Board Only | eBay which is way better than the next at $125.

antonline has the kit with a chassis and power brick for $145 Intel Thin Canyon NUC Kit DE3815TYKHE BLKDE3815TYKH0E 1 | eBay

My big question is whether anyone has tried this platform before. It seems either like a great low power Intel platform or like it will be a total dud. The ECS Liva 32GB/2GB has the case, 2GB of RAM, more eMMC and Wifi/BT for $119 which seems better with 2 cores and 10% higher clock speeds.

Any thoughts on the Atom E3815?

 

[Mr. F]

That's interesting - the board looks like it has the same IO layout as my NUC with the Celeron 2830.

I'll try to bench my NUC when it can spare some time from MythFrontend duties for comparison.

 

[NeverDie]

As part of my "buy random stuff on ebay to benchmark for STH" campaign I recently cam across the Intel Atom E3815. It seems to be a single core Slivermont at 1.46GHz and a single DDR3 memory channel. It also seems to be a 5w SoC so certainly interesting from a power perspective. The board also comes with a 4GB eMMC module onboard (see here)so I am guessing you can just add a DDR3L stick and be running.

OEM XS has these on sale for $105 and best offer $79: Intel DE3815TYBE BLKDE3815TYBE NUC Board DDR3L USB3 USB2 HDMI VGA Board Only | eBay which is way better than the next at $125.

antonline has the kit with a chassis and power brick for $145 Intel Thin Canyon NUC Kit DE3815TYKHE BLKDE3815TYKH0E 1 | eBay

My big question is whether anyone has tried this platform before. It seems either like a great low power Intel platform or like it will be a total dud. The ECS Liva 32GB/2GB has the case, 2GB of RAM, more eMMC and Wifi/BT for $119 which seems better with 2 cores and 10% higher clock speeds.

Any thoughts on the Atom E3815?

Seems awfully weak: PassMark - Intel Atom E3815 @ 1.46GHz - Price performance comparison

Good enough for a domain controller or a time server but what else?

 

[chinesestunna]

At this power level perhaps good to make a router/wireless AP? Some of those new routers are getting crazy expensive and this might actually be a viable route with DD/Open-WRT X86

 

[Patrick]

At this power level perhaps good to make a router/wireless AP? Some of those new routers are getting crazy expensive and this might actually be a viable route with DD/Open-WRT X86

But it has only 1 Ethernet port.

 

[chinesestunna]

But it has only 1 Ethernet port.

Oops, keep forgetting that detail

 

[Patriot]

Intel Next Unit of Computing Kit DE3815TYKHE - Barebone - mini PC - 1 x Atom E3815 / 1.46 GHz - HD Graphics - GigE at TigerDirect.com Not the only place that has it for 145

 

[Patrick]

@Patriot I was looking more at the $79 option. I am having second thoughts though.

 

[Chuckleb]

I still really like my Liva, I use it as my desktop Linux machine to test drives at my desk. Too lazy to run into the workbench. Low power and quiet.

 

[Patrick]

I still really like my Liva, I use it as my desktop Linux machine to test drives at my desk. Too lazy to run into the workbench. Low power and quiet.

Yea, I am a bit behind on reviews right now and the next quarter is going to be big for STH. Otherwise, I would get a Liva.

That Zotac unit is awesome though. It now has an 800GB Intel S3500. I was thinking of getting a second just for 800GB of clustered SSD storage