[HN Gopher] Single Board Computers Benchmarks ___________________________________________________________________ Single Board Computers Benchmarks Author : diimdeep Score : 66 points Date : 2022-10-22 19:57 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | hurtuvac78 wrote: | I'd like to know how fast the networking is of such boards. As | in: read a file and distribute it over ethernet or wireless, in | MB/s. | | What's the next best indicator? Clock speed? CPU? | moffkalast wrote: | I fail to see how the Apple M1 is a SBC. I suppose a Macbook may | technically be a single board because it's all soldered together | to prevent people from upgrading their RAM and that sort of thing | but it's not like one can get it as an actual dev board. | | Also interesting that the Pi 4 running in 32 bit armv7 mode | outperforms itself in 64 bit mode by up to almost 2x. | alexvoda wrote: | The Mac mini is closer to a dev board than a MacBook and it's | as close to a dev board Apple will get other than the Apple 1. | Arguably, a Mac mini is comparable with a NUC and also | comparable with a Pi if all you do with the Pi is put it in a | case and use it like a PC. | | As soon as you desire GPIO, tough luck. | codazoda wrote: | I think a likely reason for the Pi marks is that there's lots | of work to be done on the 64-bit OS. They still recommend the | 32-bit version even though newer Pi's have 64-bit CPU's. | | I researched this a bit when I configured a Raspberry Pi 400 as | a server in my bedroom. | | https://joeldare.com/private-analtyics-and-my-raspberry-pi-4... | moffkalast wrote: | Yeah afaik they also had some issues with MMAL using some | hardcoded address jumping that while it did work on 64 it | would on occasion go outside the new virtual address range | and crash, which made the Pi Camera and the GPU very | unreliable. I suppose by now Broadcom's already fixed that | given that there are actual 64 bit builds on the official | Raspberry site again. | | While there's a lot left to fix I'm sure that part of the | slowdown is also just physics. Even if it's native, there's | an extra layer of abstraction to process, you need to fetch | twice the address bytes, and write twice the address bytes. | Makes sense it's roughly a 2x slowdown since it's doing 2x | the data shuffling (especially since it's in single threaded | performance). | | Or it's far more complicated than that and it's just a | coincidence that the numbers align... | the_cat_kittles wrote: | TIL about ix.io, that is awesome | generalizations wrote: | Would probably help to include price points, or at least links to | product pages. Otherwise I don't necessarily know if I'm looking | at a $200 intel thing or a Pi Zero clone. | Havoc wrote: | Great list. Thank you | | Rockpi 5B is looking good! | | Don't think the title is correct though. That's a mix of arm | boards, some decided not in the SBC class. e.g. H270-T70 is more | of an enterprise server. | pixelatedindex wrote: | Seeing the Macbook on there was a bit of a surprise, never really | considered those to be in the same realm as RPis. But that list | also has some other big hitters like the Honeycomb, so that's | fair. | thot_experiment wrote: | Definitely a useful table, but two additional dimensions I would | really love to see here are cost, and power consumption per unit | work, especially the latter. | rektide wrote: | And year introduced, so we cant look at trend. | | Personay it's been crushing to me that Cortex A53 (2012) and A7 | (2011, a slightly updated A5, 2009) have been around for so so | so so long & still dont have a worthwhile replacement. A55 is | out but debateably a 10% win at best, and the almost 2 year old | A510 doesnt actually exist/isnt for sale. A7 has some A35s that | maybe sort of compete. | | I want to see what is changing over time, if anything. I never | thought I'd be anywhere as thamkful as I am that RPi has | seemingly singlehandedly forced some value delivery, some | progress. I dont know that we'd be seeing things like A72's | (2015) for under $100 otherwise. The low end market has been | rough. | CamperBob2 wrote: | Also would be a lot more useful if you could sort by columns. | sam_lowry_ wrote: | Mainline support is important for many use cases, performance | only for some. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-22 23:00 UTC)