The new LattePanda 3 Delta does offer good mainstream performance for the low power it uses in full load, while remaining very silent even during consistent loads for long periods of time. The mini-PC can be used as-is by taking advantage of the pre-installed Windows 10 OS or by upgrading to Windows 11 or even erasing the whole partition and moving to Linux. This was thought as a development platform for tinkerers thanks to the included Arduino ATmega32U4 and is compatible with hundreds of sensors and actuators.

As noted from our benchmark scores, the LattePanda 3 Delta can be successfully used as a home theater, since it can decode 4K video files successfully via Intel’s UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake with 24 Execution Units), but also for light gaming (including emulation of older consoles). Browsing can be a little laggy if a lot of tabs are open due to only using 8GB of single-channel memory but productivity work (Office) should not be impacted by this.

When pushed to its limits, the core frequency will drop from about 2.9GHz to a minimum of 2.1GHz and stay there indefinitely; we noted that the CPU package power was maxing out to about 13.480W in the first stage of our AIDA System Stability Test, but afterwards it went down to the 10W limit (9.964W). Because of this type of behavior, the fan remained inaudible even when reaching the maximum stable temperature of about 70 degrees Celsius, even if we have had only a spike at 78 degrees:

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We were interested in also testing the performance of the eMMC storage, and this nears about 300MB/s in reads and about 165MB/s in writes:

In terms of power consumption, we measured about 5.61W in IDLE and just about 22.6W in Full Load, so we can definitely keep this product online indefinitely for serving different functions.

For about $279 on DFRobot’s online store, this product is a real treat given the tons of interfaces for development; you can purchase from them a lot of addons as well, including cases in order to have a nice-looking build!

LattePanda 3 Delta 864 Single Board Computer is Recommended for:

We would like to thank again to LattePanda for making this review possible!