– At the beginning, Android displayed “Application not responding” notification a couple of times. After the reboot everything was running much smoother (almost no lags).

– The performance of Intel Compute Stick with Slideshow is fairly standard – in 720p and 1080p it doesn’t have any problems displaying video and moving text at the same time. It also supports Enhanced video player, so you can experiment with rotating the screen as well.

– In higher load (even playing standard 720p x264 video, hard to say if hardware decoding is active), the CPU temperature goes over 55 °C and that triggers tiny cooling fan inside the device (how did they even fit a fan there?), which has little bit tiresome sound. Be aware of this if you are planning on running it in a quiet place.

– While working with the user interface (settings, benchmarks), WiFi was disconnecting after approximately 10 minutes, requiring manual reconnect through settings. However, with Slideshow running the WiFi kept connected during the whole 5 hour test, probably because of Slideshow’s WiFi lock.

– Switching between low power and performance mode in BIOS had no measurable effect on the performance.

– I tried running AnTuTu and Passmark benchmarks to get a hint of comparison to other devices, but both failed (AnTuTu got stuck on the GPU test, Passmark crashed immediately after launching the app). I finally used Geekbench 4.4, which run without any problems. The performance is around 2014’s OnePlus One, which is not bad for a device which costed around 110 EUR in 2015. You can find graphs with the complete results bellow and compare Intel Compute Stick with Rockchip RK3288, which is still a popular System-on-chip in Android boxes.