[HN Gopher] Single Board Computers Benchmarks
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       Single Board Computers Benchmarks
        
       Author : diimdeep
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2022-10-22 19:57 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | 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.
        
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