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Anandtech Intel Broadwell NUC review

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jaydee

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I wanted to post this in the comments of the review, but apparently it closely resembles SPAM, so it won't let me post it. It might be better here for discussion anyways. Does anyone else feel this way regarding the review? And the unit itself?

This Broadwell NUC trades blows with Haswell NUC across the spectrum of benchmarks. It would be one thing if the performance was the same, but power consumption was better, but that's not the case either. Even that could be overlooked if it offered some unique features (HTPC or otherwise) over the previous generation, but you can't even claim that.

I'm not sure why you're (the author, Ganesh) not calling it like it is. Essentially, what we have is: Broadwell NUC is equal to Haswell NUC.
 
Unless you're talking about a different review, it looks like that's effectively the same conclusion:
That said, while migrating from Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge is a no-brainer, there is not enough on offer to recommend migrating from a Haswell-based UCFF PC.
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sphenodont said:
Unless you're talking about a different review, it looks like that's effectively the same conclusion:
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Previous sentence: "The performance delta over the Haswell-U-based D54250WYKH (particularly, on the graphics side) is noticeable"

There's only one game they showed at a playable framerate that shows anything noticeable (Tomb Raider).

When the author says "Not enough to offer", it implies that... there is something to offer, just not enough.

I see basically nothing. In some instances a half step forward, on other instances a half step back.

And to recommend migrating from Ivy/Sandy Bridge... if Haswell wasn't enough to migrate for, why would you recommend migrating to Broadwell? Because it's "newer"?

Looking at the benchmarks, I just felt really out of step with the commentary. It feels like the thrust of the story should have been "that's weird, this isn't any better than the Haswell NUC, despite having higher clockspeeds". Instead it's painted as an incremental step up. And not even mention that the power consumption is higher, both idle and load?
 
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