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I feel like most SBC servers should have ARM or RISC-V CPUs these days. x86' primary advantage right now is proprietary graphics hardware, of which a server oug
by mouse_ 3y ago
I feel like most SBC servers should have ARM or RISC-V CPUs these days. x86' primary advantage right now is proprietary graphics hardware, of which a server ought to have none. I'm not implying this isn't an issue on SBCs also, just that x86 probably isn't particularly advantageous for SBC servers.
This would be cool if it had new Intel ARC graphics that could encode av1 (av1 live server for everyone coooool! wow could be super next-gen!), but unfortunately it doesn't have that, just old intel integrated graphics. Bummer. Probably sticking with Odroid stuff like mech422 said.
- xmodem 3y agoThe Intel QuickSync (video transcoding) capabilities in modern intel CPU's are quite powerful.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoservers use gpus for all kinds of things with no actual display. I've been looking for a decent gpu to enable hardware encoding in a freebsd jail this week myself. Intels built-in is great for that and that makes all the sense in the world on an sbc.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoARM, and I expect RV, win for minimal power consumption, but AIUI current x86 is actually good for raw performance and perf/Watt. I mean, I like more diversity in the market, but x86 is holding its own for real reasons (not just legacy/inertia).
- snvzz 3y ago>but AIUI current x86 is actually good for raw performance and perf/Watt. True. But watch out for Veyron Ventana, due H2 this year, and Tenstorrent Ascalon, due next year. The latter expects similar performance as projected Zen5, but using less power.
- snvzz 3y ago>proprietary graphics hardware Not sure what you mean. E.g. recent AMD cards work on RISC-V just fine.