Hi, This get to this list, I had to look up the NUC type on the Intel specifications site e.g here for an NUC10i7FN https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/188811/intel-nuc-10-performance-kit-nuc10i7fnh.html and then follow the link to the CPU used in that NUC, which is the Processor number, i7-10710U. Then add that to the comparison table on PassMark, and then copied out the relevant details into my own spreadsheet, where I just want to record single-thread performance, # of cores & threads, TPW and overall performance.
However interesting results as in the NUC7i7 to NUC10i7 models single thread performance is now 2,165 to 2,800, it is just the overall that varies, which is more down to additional cores and Turbo frequencies, which both consume extra power.
The same was true for the NUC5i3 to NUC7i3 range as well.
Only with the NUC12 and the latest CPUs is anything significantly higher, but these CPU offer the 2 types of CPU cores, efficiency and performance types, however how is the workload moved from an efficiency core to a performance core and back again? Is this within the underlying BIOS kernel, the OS or application layer?
RoonOS seems to be built on a single-pipe processing model with each endpoint zone operating within a pipe. So will there be the ability to utilize the performance core, dynamically, with the Roon Core/RoonOS returning the workload back to the efficiency cores when dormant?
If not, then the NUC12 benchmark figures are somewhat meaningless, as the applications running the benchmarks will be behaving differently to RoonOS, at a CPU Core assigning and load-balancing across the CPU core to how the embedded operating system of RoonOS undertakes its workload management.
Personally, I moved from a NUC5i3MYHE, which had been perfectly adequate since 2017 with the launch of ROCK for the Library I was running, which at the time was circa 90k tracks, to a NUC7i7DNK (same board as in a Nucleus+) only because I was worried about supply issues as I approach the 100k track mark. Other than faster scanning of new material and any database updates, there has very little noticeable difference