Intel Compute Stick

Re:Intel Compute Stick by greggman on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @03:50AM (#8849489)

I was forced to use NUCs for a project. They were under powered for me. All I needed to do was draw 5 fullscreen quads at 1920x1080 but all they could handle was 4 fullscreen quads at 1280x720.

I'm sure they're great for some things so YMMV

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Re:Intel Compute Stick by wilhil on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @12:54PM (#8851993)

To be fair, that is a big requirement... Loads of mid to high end graphics cards from just a few years backfail at dual QHD screen.

I power 2x 1920x1080 screens off of a NUC and am very happy.

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Re:Intel Compute Stick by kllrnohj on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @05:45PM (#8853854)

No, it isn't.

1920 * 1080 pixels * 5 * 60 = 622MPixel/s of fillrate required.

Radeon 9700 Pro, high end from over 10 years ago, had a fillrate of 2600MPixels/s

Let's take a high end graphics card from a few years back, say... GTX 480? A 2010 card? That has a fillrate of 33,600 MPixels/sec.

5x 1920x1080 quads is child's play for any reasonable desktop GPU part. In fact high end cards from 2009 could game at 5760x2160 (that's 6x 1920x1080 displays) off of a single card.

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Re:Intel Compute Stick by walterbell on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @04:17AM (#8849561)

Was that an Ivy Bridge or Haswell GPU?

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