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"The fastest SBC at CPU tasks priced below $100 is the Raspberry Pi." The Odroid N2+ costs $79 and is over twice as fast as the Pi4. The Khadas Vim3 costs $100

"The fastest SBC at CPU tasks priced below $100 is the Raspberry Pi." The Odroid N2+ costs $79 and is over twice as fast as the Pi4. The Khadas Vim3 costs $100 and is about 30-40% faster than the Pi4. The number of SBC boards out there is becoming huge; although the PI price has dropped significantly wrt performance and features (especially RAM), there's a lot of comeptition, and it's growing. https://hackerboards.com/spec-summaries/ https://hackerboards.com/spec-summaries/ https://all3dp.com/1/single-board-computer-raspberry-pi-alternative/ https://all3dp.com/1/single-board-computer-raspberry-pi-alte...

my123 6y ago
> Cortex-A73 at 2.4GHz That's indeed much faster than the Pi4. Do you know the state of kernel support for that board?
- rektide 6y ago
  It uses an Amlogic S922X aka the G12B. Support is generally pretty good, there's a dedicated community that has been very active pushing upstream[1]. Except the ARM G51 Bifrost gpu, which has only recently started to see viability[2] thanks to one hacker's reverse engineering. If you want to read a lot of words, there's a status report from the libreeelec Kodi-based media player distribution distribution that's a year old, that lays out a lot of what needs be done, from a very video-intense perspective[3]; this is before recent reverse engineering efforts, & largely discusses uses closed proprietary blobs, but still interesting. Most recently & very interestingly, there are signs that ARM itself may be willing to start helping out the reverse engineered development[4], which would be a new potentially interesting state of affairs. [1] http://linux-meson.com/ http://linux-meson.com/ [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bifrost-Gallium3D-Most-GLES-2.0 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bifrost-... [1] https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/21134-what-aspects-of-hardware-is-supported-under-amlogic-mainline-at-the-moment/ https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/21134-what-aspects-of-hard... [4] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panfrost-Going-Official https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panf...
- squarefoot 6y ago
  According to the Armbian (one distro to support them all:^) page, mainline kernel support is complete, although they say there still could be some network problems. From what I read on their forum, the Hardkernel Ubuntu-based image is currently more stable than the Armbian one. https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/ https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/ https://forum.armbian.com/search/?q=odroid%20n2%2B&fromCSE=1 https://forum.armbian.com/search/?q=odroid%20n2%2B&fromCSE=1 https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started/os_installation_guide#operating_systems_we_re_providing https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started/os_installation_guid... Dietpi also supports the N2, which is very similar to the N2+. https://dietpi.com/ https://dietpi.com/

my123 6y ago

> Cortex-A73 at 2.4GHz That's indeed much faster than the Pi4. Do you know the state of kernel support for that board?

rektide 6y ago
It uses an Amlogic S922X aka the G12B. Support is generally pretty good, there's a dedicated community that has been very active pushing upstream[1]. Except the ARM G51 Bifrost gpu, which has only recently started to see viability[2] thanks to one hacker's reverse engineering. If you want to read a lot of words, there's a status report from the libreeelec Kodi-based media player distribution distribution that's a year old, that lays out a lot of what needs be done, from a very video-intense perspective[3]; this is before recent reverse engineering efforts, & largely discusses uses closed proprietary blobs, but still interesting. Most recently & very interestingly, there are signs that ARM itself may be willing to start helping out the reverse engineered development[4], which would be a new potentially interesting state of affairs. [1] http://linux-meson.com/ http://linux-meson.com/ [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bifrost-Gallium3D-Most-GLES-2.0 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bifrost-... [1] https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/21134-what-aspects-of-hardware-is-supported-under-amlogic-mainline-at-the-moment/ https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/21134-what-aspects-of-hard... [4] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panfrost-Going-Official https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panf...
squarefoot 6y ago
According to the Armbian (one distro to support them all:^) page, mainline kernel support is complete, although they say there still could be some network problems. From what I read on their forum, the Hardkernel Ubuntu-based image is currently more stable than the Armbian one. https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/ https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/ https://forum.armbian.com/search/?q=odroid%20n2%2B&fromCSE=1 https://forum.armbian.com/search/?q=odroid%20n2%2B&fromCSE=1 https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started/os_installation_guide#operating_systems_we_re_providing https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started/os_installation_guid... Dietpi also supports the N2, which is very similar to the N2+. https://dietpi.com/ https://dietpi.com/