Which Intel NUC to choose?

[simon_pepper]

I have done comparison of the CPU performance figures used in a number of NUCs here, from the lowest spec supported NUC5i3 to current ‘highest’ spec NUC10i7

Intel NUC - Roon Rock - only for TIDAL

Just to get into some CPU specifications of single thread performance as taken from https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ which is key to the performance operation of the RoonOS in a ROCK deployment. [image] So the lowest spec NUC, the NUC5i3 I had running from 2017 to recently with a 90K library, had a single thread performance of 1,241 A RevB Nucleus (which I understand uses a NUC7i3 board) has a single thread performance of 1,391. A RevB Nucleus Plus uses a NUC7i7DN board, with the quad-core Gen…

Library size is just one element, but number of endpoints to be used simultaneously, level of DSP intended with each endpoint.
Again on my original NUCi5 I proved that 4 endpoints could be supported all with heavy DSP workload (DSD upconverting, EQ Evolution files, format downconverting to 24/192, PCM conversion to DSD).

So if little DSP is to be used and a single endpoint, the single thread specification is all that is important, the rest is performance that will be only be utilised during local file analysis on initial library build and when adding local files to the library (streamed files aren’t analysis in advance of being played),