Performance
To recap, our Intel NUC has an i7-1360P processor, which has 4 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. Only the performance cores have hyper-threading, a form of simultaneous multithreading technology. In total, there are therefore 12 cores, 16 threads available.
It’s possible to disable hyper-threading, as well as disabling Intel Turbo Boost Technology, the latter increases CPU speeds up to the Max Turbo Frequency while staying within safe temperature and power limits.
We don’t recommend disabling either hyper-threading or turbo boost, as having both these technologies enabled improves general system performance.
From a power consumption perspective, what might seem more appealing are the options to reduce the number of active performance and/or efficient cores.
As the image above shows, we must have at least 1 performance core active.
But for the efficient cores we can have 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or all 8 active.
We were interested to see the effect of power consumption by changing the number of performance and/or efficient cores. Reducing the number of active performance cores to only 1, we didn’t see any power consumption saving when the system is idling.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Cooling
Page 2 – Performance
Articles in this series:
| Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Part 1 | Introduction to the series with interrogation of system |
| Part 2 | Benchmarking the Mini PC |
| Part 3 | Installing Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop |
| Part 4 | Configuring Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop |
| Part 5 | Power Consumption |
| Part 6 | P-Cores and E-Cores |
| Part 7 | Gaming |
| Part 8 | Installing and Configuring Manjaro |
| Part 9 | BIOS options |