Khadas Mind is a Different Mini PC Our Review

Intel Core i7-1360P Performance

The Intel Core i7-1360P is a decent CPU with four P-cores and eight E-cores. It is not a Meteor Lake processor with the onboard NPU but does feature Intel graphics.

We have seen this CPU a number of times at this point and it performs reasonably well. During our performance testing, we also wanted to check if this system could run Ubuntu as well as Windows 11, and it did so without issue.

Python Linux 4.4.2 Kernel Compile Benchmark

This is one of the most requested benchmarks for STH over the past few years. The task was simple, we have a standard configuration file, the Linux 4.4.2 kernel from kernel.org, and make the standard auto-generated configuration utilizing every thread in the system. We are expressing results in terms of compiles per hour to make the results easier to read:

Here the performance of the Core i7-1360P is good, but it is a lower power processor so we are never going to achieve top-bin performance numbers.

7-zip Compression Performance

7-zip is a widely used compression/ decompression program that works cross-platform. We started using the program during our early days with Windows testing. It is now part of Linux-Bench.

Since the Premium model comes with the Core i7-1360P and the standard model with the Core i5-1340P, it is worth noting that they are relatively close in performance. We generally get better performance from the Core i7, but at some point, these processors get power and are thermally limited.

OpenSSL Performance

OpenSSL is widely used to secure communications between servers. This is an important protocol in many server stacks. We first look at our sign tests:

Here are the verify results:

Somewhat fun is that this is actually faster than the Intel Atom P5342 system we just reviewed even though that is a 16 core 71W TDP processor.

Geekbench 5 and 6 Results

Just so you can easily compare this to your own system, we have a number of Geekbench 5 and 6 results.

Above is Geekbench 5 and below is Geekbench 6.

These are OK results, but far from what we get on the top-end mini PCs today. Feel free to compare these to other systems.

Next, let us get to the power consumption and noise.