Intel Bean Canyon NUC Review: 8th Gen CPU With Iris Plus Graphics
Intel NUC NUC8i7BEH1: Cinebench, Gaming & Graphics
Cinebench R15 is a combination CPU and OpenGL 3D rendering performance test based on Cinema 4D from Maxon. Cinema 4D is a 3D rendering and animation tool suite used by animation houses and producers like Sony Animation and many others. It's very demanding of system processor resources and can utilize any number of threads, which make is an excellent gauge of computational throughput. This is a multi-threaded, multi-processor aware benchmark that renders and animates 3D scenes and tracks the length of the entire process. The rate at which each test system was able to render the entire scene is represented in the graph below.
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The NUC8i7BEH1 performed right about on par with the Hades Canyon NUC, but a couple of notches behind the desktop-class Core i5-8400.
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For our next series of tests with the NUC8i7BEH1, we moved on to some game-related metrics with 3DMark, specifically the physics benchmark that's part of the Fire Strike test, along with a couple of actual games. For the 3DMark Physics test, we simply create a custom 3DMark run consisting solely of the physics test, which is CPU dependent, and report the results...
The NUC8i7BEH1 once again lands just behind the Core i5-8400, and it trails a Ryzen 5 1500X, but it outpaces the 7th Gen Core i5-7600 and Ryzen 5 2400G desktop APU.
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We also ran some game and graphics tests on the NUC8i7BEH1's Iris Plus 655 using 3DMark, VRMark, Cinebench, and Middle Earth - Shadow Of War to see what it could do. We used 3DMark Fire Strike, VRMark, and Cinebench's OpenGL test with their default presets, and Shadow Of War was run at 1080P with the medium quality graphics setting.
In Middle Earth: Shadow Of War, the NUC8i7BEH1's Iris Plus 655 was significantly faster than Intel's UHD 630 graphics, but couldn't quite catch Vega 8...
