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That Rockchip has an ancient Mali 400 GPU (with no open source drivers) that won't be able to render a Flutter app at 1080p, or lower even. The engine library
by stefan_ 8y ago
That Rockchip has an ancient Mali 400 GPU (with no open source drivers) that won't be able to render a Flutter app at 1080p, or lower even.
The engine library alone is also already ~70 MiB. Running the Flutter Demo on my RPi3 (in aarch64, so the numbers are somewhat inflated) it's at 250 MiB of memory (with about 60 MiB of that for the system) and an additional 60 MiB of graphics memory. This is on a 1366x768, where the RPi graphics just about manage 60 fps (when warmed up).
- andrewstuart 8y agoSo it does not sound encouraging for Flutter on $20 HDMI sticks.
- stefan_ 8y agoWe have $80 retail smartphones that blow this chip out of the water, so I have no doubts you can make a very good performing $20 Flutter stick. It's just that currently, it takes about 10 years for any sort of mobile throwaway hardware to get some sort of open source support that would make this possible for the home tinkerer.
- andrewstuart 8y agoRockchip - the maker of the rk3036 CPU are pretty good with their open source: https://github.com/rockchip-linux https://github.com/rockchip-linux >>We have $80 retail smartphones that blow this chip out of the water I'm interested in things that plug in to HDMI. This for example is $150 https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/X99-TV-BOX-4K-UHD-RK3399-4GB-32GB-ROM-Android-7-1-2-4G-5G-WIFI-64Bit-BT4-1-Media/293007973727 https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/X99-TV-BOX-4K-UHD-RK3399-4GB-32G... and uses the newer rk3399 chip http://rockchip.wikidot.com/rk3399 http://rockchip.wikidot.com/rk3399