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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.
by thot_experiment 4y ago
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 4y agoAnd 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.
- CameronNemo 4y agoI think the problem with the in order designs is that there is not much to improve on. Most of the gains for OoO cored designs are coming from the branch predictor. You mentioned A55 and A35. There are good boards shipping those cores, now. rk356x and various Amlogic SoCs come to mind.
- rektide 4y agoThe A55's have been around for a bit, yeah. They just dont seem to be noticably better as cores (but there's been ongoing gains in uncore). You may be right that there's just not much headroom perhaps. But supposedly the A510 and announced A515 offer some real gains. I havent tried the A35. I see them as more targetted towards MID devices than the A7 was butb hats product-market segmemtation maybe.
- CamperBob2 4y agoAlso would be a lot more useful if you could sort by columns.
- ac29 4y agoVisidata has no trouble importing the table: vd 'https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/Results.md'
- thot_experiment 4y agoBruh. How have I've never heard of this tool before, this looks amazing!
- srcreigh 4y agoVisiData link for the curious https://www.visidata.org/ https://www.visidata.org/
- ur-whale 4y ago> Visidata Wow, thanks for this, never heard about it before, installs super easy, super useful.
- ThomasKaiser 4y agoI added some sorted table variants: https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/results/Sorted-Results.md https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/result...
- xani__ 4y agoThat makes it a bit harder, most people don't have access to accurate power measurement device. Kinda shame USB hosts don't have that functionality
- ilyt 4y agoIs that all from one author ? If the results are submitted by multiple people I'd imagine it would be hard as not everyone have setup to measure power usage accurately. For anything battery powered idle usage also is useful stat but that I'd imagine would vary widldly depending on whether kernel supports all of the chip's power saving features
- moffkalast 4y ago> whether kernel supports all of the chip's power saving features I mean that is genuinely relevant info for you if you're gonna be using that distro. It doesn't matter what it supports in hardware if there's no software support for it, it's like it doesn't exist.
- ilyt 4y agoOn top of that it might support it but need special settings, or have certain optimizations enabled to get the lowest power.
- rcarmo 4y agoI’d also like to see some form of GPU compute and network bandwidth capabilities.
- egberts1 4y agoYeah, notably the Radxa ROCK 5B who has outperformed the Apple M1 on performance/power. Wow.
- ThomasKaiser 4y agoHow should RK3588 be able to outperform any recent Apple SoC?