[mythtv-users] COMPARATIVE TEST: Revo R3610 vs Revo R3700 vs Intel E8500 3.16 C2Duo
tortise
tortise at paradise.net.nz
Fri Aug 23 22:42:12 UTC 2013
I compared the time to load 2230 recordings on screen using wired
Ethernet connected frontends, with slowest LAN bottlenecks of 100M
switches (or faster)
All 3 PC's are running 16GB Kingston SSD's, 2GB RAM, the Intel is
running an NVIDIA 8500GT and 10.04 Mythbuntu - the Revo's 10.10
Mythbuntu, all solely frontends.
Load speeds are respectively 10 seconds, 5 seconds and 2 seconds.
The subjective interpretation is respectively, an eternity, slow and
reasonably quick (but not instant)!
The R3700's CPU is not that much faster than the R3610's(maybe 115%),
but is later technology (e.g. faster RAM and?) and is significantly
faster on this test than I would have predicted given the modest CPU
speed increase. Interestingly the heatsink in the 3700 is quite a step
up from the 3610 to include a smart compact heat pipe arrangement.
Obviously they all play back H264 1080i content much the same, but the
Intel will also playback live 1080i TV direct to VLC from an HDHomerun
independently, the revo's can only do this for SD (Hardware decoding on
VLC may be easier to implement in more recent versions possibly
overcoming this?)
This is testing the last of 0.23 fixes, so I do not know whether this
has been improved in the vast number of revisions since or whether some
sort of xmlhttprequest like behaviour has been recruited to overcome
this bottleneck of loading all the recording data before displaying it...
I hope this is of interest, especially for people considering lower
power frontend options.
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