This is for the Intel NUC11PAHi5, the new Diamond.
When the new machine was received, I checked out these features.
In summary, every one of the features that the machine was supposed
to have, performed with no hassle out of the box, except for a few that
needed to be configured.
| Does it boot at all? | Box
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| | Yes. Because I copied everything from another
machine (vs. a fresh installation) there were issues like an invalid
signature on the kernel (I had to turn off Secure Boot) and getting
the right UUID for the root filesystem, but with these fixed it boots
the installed kernel (UEFI) with no problems. It also boots the rescue
disc (UEFI). This is OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, kernel 5.14.14.
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| Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
| Box
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| | Cores | 4
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| | Technology | 10nm
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| | Nominal clock speed | 2.40GHz
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| | Turbo clock speed (1 core) | 4.20GHz
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| | Bogomips (each core) | 4838
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| | Jimc's benchmark (SHA-512 + I/O, multi core, Mb/sec)
| 346
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| | Playing MPEG-4 1080p video (VLC, percent CPU usage)
| 3%
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| Graphics: Intel Iris Xe Graphics (80 execution units)
| Box
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| | Using the HDMI port, with a 1920x1080px
display (1080p), the machine can perform MPEG-2 and H.264 encoded media
with no problems: way more than enough CPU power and no dropped frames.
I'm assuming without proof that the GPU is doing the decoding.
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| Memory as reported by /proc/meminfo (* =
Intel CPU spec page)
| Box
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| | L3 cache size | 8Mb
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| | L2 cache size per core (*) | 1280Kb
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| | L1 cache size per core (*) | 80Kb
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| | Main RAM speed (per BIOS setup) | 2667MHz
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| | Video RAM reservation (estimated) | 256Mb
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| | Sockets for RAM | 2
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| | RAM on this machine | 2 x 8Gb
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| | Motherboard memory limit | 2 x 16Gb
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| Disc | Box
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| |
Silicon Motion, Inc. SM2263EN SSD Controller (NVMe): 250Gb drive,
can't tell the actual disc vendor but it's in Guangdong, CN.
Controller specs: sequential read
2400Mb/s, sequential write 1700Mb/s, random read 300k block/s,
random write 250k block/s (presumably plus the data transfer limit).
Empirical tests suggest that these specs are close to being achieved
in real life.
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| LAN | Box
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| | Intel Ethernet Controller I225-V (Gbit),
driver: igc. Our net is limited to 100Mbit/sec.
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| Wi-fi | N.T.
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| | Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (802.11-ax and backward
compatible with b/g/n/ac), iwlwifi driver. Not tested, but in Windows it
did a Wi-Fi scan and found my access point.
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| Bluetooth | Box
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| | Intel AX201 Bluetooth, 8087:0026 on USB,
obviously integrated with the Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201. Driver: btusb (not
btintel).
I paired it with my Android phone, and received a file from the phone.
I also paired a Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse 3600; it was accepted as a
pointing device.
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| Audio
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| | Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio
Controller; Driver: snd_hda_intel. | Box
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| | Builtin Audio Analog Stereo: tested and works
through the 3.5mm phone jack. | Box
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| | S/PDIF on HDMI: Not tested (yet).
| N.T.
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| | Microphone: not tested, but volume control is
present. | N.T.
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| USB Ports | Box
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| |
Bus 1,2,4: XHCI controller (USB-3.0, 5Gbit/sec) but no clients.
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Bus 3: XHCI controller; AX201 Bluetooth HCI; Monitor hub via rear USB port
(Keyboard, trackball and webcam); unoccupied front and rear USB port
(tested).
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| Infrared Receiver | N.T.
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| | For an infrared remote control on a home
theater machine. The sensor is to the left of the USB and Thunderbolt
ports. The acronym CIR is
used in Intel literature to describe this device.
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| Special Features:
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| | S3 = suspend to RAM; S4 = suspend to disc
or hibernate; S5 = power off; RTC = realtime clock
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| | Wake on LAN from S3: OK | Box
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| | Wake on LAN from S4: OK, needs the resume
module in Dracut/initrd. | Conf
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| | Wake on LAN from S5: OK, had to configure in BIOS.
| Conf
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| | Wake on RTC from S3 or S5: OK | Box
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| | Wake on RTC from S4: OK | Box
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| | Auto boot when power returns (could be turned on in BIOS)
| Conf
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| | Watchdog timer: driver iTCO_wdt.ko; I had to add the
watchdog module to Dracut to load it. I haven't actually seen
it reboot this machine, I'm but giving it a pass. | Conf
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| | PXE boot (can do PXE on IPv4 or IPv6, but server
isn't going to be set up) | N.T.
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| Suspend and Wake Times | Box
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| | By default, the machine wakes or boots from S3 on all of
LAN, RTC, USB, and CIR. From S4 or S5, LAN, USB and CIR generally need
configuration in BIOS (see previous section).
Times to suspend/wake, in seconds:
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| | S3 (suspend to RAM) | 2/4 sec
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| | S4 (hibernate to disc) | 4/25 sec
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| | S5 (power off and reboot including 8 sec Grub timeout)
| 5/65 sec
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| | Onboard devices including graphics can suspend and wake successfully.
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| Power Consumption | OK
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| | S5, S4 (power off, Linux hibernate) | 0W
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| | Booting: varies, up to… | 24W
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| | S3 (suspended to RAM) (oink) | 4W
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| | Idle, screen on | 6W
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| | Playing MPEG-4 1080p video (VLC) | 9-11W
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| | Maxed out, 1 core (14.5 WU/sec) | 26W
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| | Maxed out, 4 cores (52.8 WU/sec or 13.2 WU/(sec*core))
| 51W
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| | The fan came on in both tests. The 1 core test should
have qualified for Turbo mode, but was only slightly
faster than the 4 core case.
WU (work unit) is defined by: a Pentium 3 at 1GHz
can do 1 WU/sec.
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