GIGABYTE BRIX GB-BXI7-4770R VS I7-4770K (BRIX VS DESKTOP)
Quite often we get the question: How good is the BRIX compared to a ordinary PC. We can now bring you the ultimate test, where our lovely GB-BXi7-4770R takes on several desktop CPUs.
We guess that you will find the results from GB-BXi7-4770R quite impressive.
Please note that we also marked the Intel Core i3-4330 in below diagrams. The reason for this is simple: More or less you can compare the desktop i3 with our GB-BXi3-5010 based on the facts that our GB-BXi7-4770R performs very similar to the i7-4770K CPU.
BRIX is super powerful, and its extremely compact. The future is here.
COMPARISON PROCESSOR CONFIGURATIONS |
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| CPU |
AMD
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Intel
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A10-7850K
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A8-7600K
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A10-6800K
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A8-6500T
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Core i7-4770K
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Core i5-4670
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Core i5-4440
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Core i3-4330
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Core i7-4770R
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| Chip TDP |
95W
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65W/45W
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100W
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65W
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84W
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84W
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84W
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54W
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65W
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| Current price |
£130
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£90
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£105
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£80
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£240
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£160
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£130
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£95
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NA
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| Motherboard |
ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+
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Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
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Gigabyte M4HM87P
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| BIOS |
1.90
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F5
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NA
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| Chipset Driver |
AMD Catalyst 13.12
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Intel Inf 9.4.0.1027 and IMEI 9
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| DDR3 Memory |
AMD Gamer Series 16GB (2x8GB)
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G.Skill 8GB (2x4GB)
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| Memory Timings |
10-11-11-28-2T @ 2,133MHz
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9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,600MHz
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9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,866MHz
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11-11-11-28-2T @ 1,600Hz
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| Integrated Graphics |
Radeon R7
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Radeon R7
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HD 8670D
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HD 8550D
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HD 4600
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HD 4600
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HD 4600
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HD 4600
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Iris Pro 5200
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| IGP driver |
AMD Catalyst 13.30 RC3
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Intel 15.33.8.64.3379
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| Disk Drive |
Samsung 840 Pro 250GB
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Intel mSATA 180GB
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| Chassis |
Corsair Graphite 600T
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Gigabyte Brix
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| Power Supply |
Corsair AX760i
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Gigabyte external
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| Operating System |
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
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CPU AND MEMORY BENCHMARKS |
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| HEXUS PiFast | Our number-crunching benchmark stresses a single core by calculating Pi to 10m places | |||||||||
| CineBench R15 | Using Cinebench’s multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses all cores | |||||||||
| wPrime 2.1.0 | Another number-crunching benchmark that stresses all available CPU cores/threads | |||||||||
| AIDA64 v4.00.2805 | Benchmark that analyses memory bandwidth and latency | |||||||||
MULTIMEDIA BENCHMARKS |
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| LuxMark 2.0 | An OpenCL rendering benchmark | |||||||||
| MuseMage 1.9.6 | An OpenCL image-manipulation benchmark (64-bit) | |||||||||
| HandBrake 0.9.9.1 | Free-to-use video encoder that stresses all CPU cores (64-bit) | |||||||||
SYSTEM BENCHMARKS |
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| PCMark 8 v2.0 | System-wide examination that uses the Home preset, run with OpenCL acceleration | |||||||||
| 3DMark | DX11, run at the Firestrike default test | |||||||||
| SiSoft Sandra 2014 | Aggregate score that takes a composite of 12 system-wide benchmarks | |||||||||
GAMING BENCHMARKS |
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| BioShock Infinite | DX9, 1,280×720 and 1,920×1,080 medium quality | |||||||||
| GRID 2 | DX9, 1,280×720 and 1,920×1,080 high quality | |||||||||
| Total War: Rome II | DX9, 1,280×720 and 1,920×1,080 medium quality | |||||||||
MISCELLANEOUS BENCHMARKS |
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| Power Consumption | While idling and when running wPrime and GRID 2 | |||||||||
Source: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/67021-intel-core-i7-4770r-22nm-haswell/
Benchmark: Single- and Multi-core