I've made some research over the week to find, whether Bay-Trail or AM1 will fit my needs. I'm comparing Intel Celeron J1900 vs AMD Athlon 5350. Here are some conclusions, however I'm not sure, if all of them are 100% right. I hope it might help you to decide...
CPU:
Both 4 cores, AMD slightly bigger frequency
In benchmarks, they are mostly equal (sometimes wins Athlon sometimes Celeron)
In case of AES, the Athlon beats Celeron hard due to native support
Athlon seems to be easy to overclock (2.05 to 2.5 with stock cooler)
Celeron has passive cooling, AMD active (but maybe no need for it, if there is a fan in the case)
GPU:
Both GPU integrated inside CPU
Radeon 8400 (R3) with 128 streams beats "Ivy Bridge" with 4 EU in games, but still the FPS is low for both
4K content is playable on both, on Radeon there might be some bugs now, but the performance potential should be there
SATA, HDMI, USB 3.0 and others
Celeron offers only 2x SATA 3.0 Gbps by default, more are added through chip
Athlon offers faster 2x SATA 6.0 Gbps by default, more are added through chip
HDMI and DisplayPort are 4K ready on AMD platform, for Intel I'm not sure (seems to be FullHD only)
USB 3.0 is supported for both, AMD seems to offer more ports
LAN is 1000 Mbps for both, generally Realtek is used, for Intel you can get sometimes Intel LAN
PCIe - AMD offers more lines (x4), Intel only (x1) ... may differ according board
Power consumption
Amount of used Watts STRONGLY depends on used PSU. Many reviews are presenting incorrect values, because editors used too strong PSUs. Optimal is to buy PicoPSU or find board with DC-in (ASRock has for both Intel and AMD)
Power consumption is similar for both
With ATX --- Idle 25 -30 W
With Pico --- Idle 10 -12 W
Conclusion
For me winner is AMD, because for similar price offers more "connectivity" and is 4K ready. In terms of performance or power consumption the results are close.
What Im going to buy
AMD Athlon 5350
ASRock AM1H-ITX
CRUCIAL Ballistix Tactical 4GB DDR3 1600 LP
Seasonic SSA-0901D-19/SSA-0901-19
Only issue seems to be, that the board offers only one SATA power connector and I have 4 drives (1x SSD, 2x WD RED 3 TB, 1x 5400 RPM 3,5" Hitachi. I will use it as NAS 24/7, so the WD RED drives will be added after boot and hopefully it won't burn the board
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What is your opinion about Bay-Trail vs AM1? Which platform would you pick? Will my board burn?