[HN Gopher] Every single board computer I tested in 2025
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Every single board computer I tested in 2025
Author : speckx
Score : 69 points
Date : 2026-03-05 12:24 UTC (3 days ago)
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| tripdout wrote:
| The BPI-R4 is great for use as a 10G WAN router if your ISP uses
| PPPoE since the network processing engine has hardware
| acceleration for it.
|
| Unifi released the UCG-Fiber around a year ago that can also
| apparently finally handle it, but plenty of threads about slow
| performance with their UDMs since it's entirely done on the CPU
| [0].
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| I'm not the biggest fan of OpenWRT and would prefer something
| like OPNSense, but it's x86 only and good PPPoE performance isn't
| guaranteed either - need a CPU with good single core performance
| that costs more than the BPI-R4, or apparently virtualizing
| OPNSense allows it to process PPPoE with multiple threads.
|
| 0: https://community.ui.com/questions/What-is-the-max-
| performan...
| heavyset_go wrote:
| I basically stopped buying SBCs several years ago, are there any
| SoC platforms that have mainline Linux support these days? Or is
| x86 still the way to go?
| aarroyoc wrote:
| RK3588 is well supported right now and is present in many SBCs
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| I really wish these lists would talk about software support. If I
| buy these, do they have mainline Linux support? Will I have
| security patches in a year? Is there decent distro support, or am
| I stuck with the vendor's half broken default image?
| sthlmb wrote:
| Hey! Author of the post someone linked here. Fair comment,
| though this wasn't really meant to be a review, or "go buy
| this!" type of post, it was more to highlight what I tested
| from the boards released in 2025 and share the results to those
| benchmarks via sbc.compare
|
| Armbian do a great job of handling support for a whole host of
| boards (including most I included in this list), so you'll
| usually have Debian/Ubuntu-based flavours. Vendor kernels and
| vendor supplied images will be hit and miss. Mainline Linux
| support is a flag you filter by on the benchmark comparison
| site linked in the article, but it's a difficult one to keep up
| to date and define exactly. It could have some kind of support,
| but miss out on display functionality, or WiFi yada yada. What
| would we then class as having mainline support? All hardware
| etc functioning? If so, very, very few will meet that
| definition.
|
| I get the desire for the information, and perhaps I should have
| envisioned these types of questions, but all I initially meant
| for the post to be was a recap for people following me to see
| which boards I'd tested that were released last year :D
| fn-mote wrote:
| > All hardware etc functioning?
|
| If your standard is "supports suspend/resume", there's even
| plenty of laptops that won't meet it.
|
| That gave me a laugh.
| LargoLasskhyfv wrote:
| In addition to https://armbian.com one could also cross check
| with Diet-Pi, which got resurrected from dormancy sometime in
| the last years.
|
| https://dietpi.com
| wojciii wrote:
| Yes, software support is what kills projects for me. I have
| been burned on boards with terrible support before. No
| documentation and some Linux kernel patched by someone on
| crack. Usually the Chinese comments in the patches are a dead
| giveaway of where the software originated from.
| plagiarist wrote:
| I wish comparisons would get into whether or not drivers have
| been upstreamed far enough where it is possible to run real Linux
| distros. And whether or not they've made braindead choices about
| boot device ordering.
| tamimio wrote:
| It would be better if there was a table summarized it all.
| sthlmb wrote:
| What kind of summary are you realistically looking
| for/expecting in an article like this? (Genuine question, no
| sass!)
| IshKebab wrote:
| Price, CPU performance, RAM, storage, networking, software
| support outlook.
|
| I mean really though unless you have a _lot_ of time I don 't
| think there's anything close to worth leaving the software
| support of Raspberry Pi for.
| tamimio wrote:
| We posted that at the same time!!
|
| Rpi and also nvidia jetson I would add.
| sthlmb wrote:
| For that I'd really point you towards the links in the
| article, as that was really what it was supposed to do :D
| As I mentioned to another person in the comments, this was
| literally supposed to be a recap of the boards I tested,
| with links to in-depth benchmark results for each of the
| boards, with the ability to then filter and compare against
| around 100 other SBCs that I own and have tested in a
| controlled manner. Software support is a very tricky one
| though, sadly. I have a few ideas for little things like
| being able to search for Armbian support, but others would
| need a long hard think!
| tamimio wrote:
| A table or similar where it lists the maker, cost, board
| name, ram, soc, arch, and maybe other columns like high
| end/low/budget friendly, and size form factor.
|
| That would be helpful before you dive into the details, for
| example, I build drones, and seeing nvidia Xavier specs I
| would be thrilled about it until I see its size and power
| consumption. Great article btw!
| sthlmb wrote:
| Thanks! See my reply below to the other user on this, I
| think the links to sbc.compare in the article have a lot of
| the data that you're looking for. I didn't really want to
| duplicate all of the data I have on the other site, I was
| more giving a quick recap, with links to the mass of data
| if people wanted to go that far. Some you mentioned like
| the dimensions are in the database, but I've not yet
| exposed them to the frontend.. Ever growing to-do list of
| life!
| jeden wrote:
| please make llm.cpp benchmark on this same model
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