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For those more technical than I, is there actually any benefit in having the 1000Mbps NIC on a board with still a relatively slow processor? I fear the process
by apapli 12y ago
For those more technical than I, is there actually any benefit in having the 1000Mbps NIC on a board with still a relatively slow processor?
I fear the processor can't handle anywhere near that amount of throughout that NIC could support, so to me it looks like a feature for the sake of being different to the Pi.
- dfox 12y agoAt the minimum it is useful because it is connected to CPU/memory by something more meaningful than USB as is the case with Raspberry Pi. Also for many interesting workloads (essentially anything that involves scatter-gather DMA from some other peripheral, eg. routing, file/storage server) you don't need that much powerful CPU to saturate gigabit ethernet.
- apapli 12y agoThanks!