Oh for sure, these are just the 2 examples I picked to work on the UI π I havenβt officially launched the feature yet, but yup, other boards will get their moments!
Oh for sure, these are just the 2 examples I picked to work on the UI π I havenβt officially launched the feature yet, but yup, other boards will get their moments!
Hey guysss, could I ask for some feedback?
sbc.compare/coolers/bana...
sbc.compare/coolers/rasp...
You can then also see more details (including power/CPU freq) on a particular cooler like sbc.compare/coolers/bana...
Any comments? Ideas? Should I scrap it all?!
Me seeing all of the EmbeddedWorld posts kicking off today
My curiosity surrounding the @raspberrypi.com Compute Module 0 got the better of me, so I ordered the EDATEC CM0NANO to see it with my own eyes..
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Damn it! Living out in the continent means Iβm not constantly bombarded with reminders and I forgot π₯²
You can see the drivers and versions used in the Test Environment section towards the top of the comparison page!
Also, if you just want to check out a leaderboard for these new tests:
sbc.compare/tinymembench
sbc.compare/glmark2
sbc.compare/vkmark
Graph showing the glmark2 results on the Libre Computer Alta, Radxa Q900, and Raspberry Pi CM0 SBCs
We now have glmark2, vkmark, and tinymembench up on sbc.compare - albeit only on a few boards for now!
All new boards will have these tests run against them, assuming the vendors are nice and their images have drivers π
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Luckily the automation will take care of most of it and I'll be mostly sitting around waiting to swap boards out! It'll likely still take me a couple of weeks though with everything else going on.. I should go over the automation and setup I have here at some point..
A cardboard box filled with Radxa Single Board Computers
Pre-Chinese New Year care package from Radxa, all to be listed on sbc.compare soon!
I must say, itβs pretty validating to have one of the big players see the value in having almost their entire range available on the website. Hopefully other vendors will follow suit!
(the data was a quick test run where the CPU governor wasn't set correctly at the start, and the timestamps along the bottom will start from 0 rather than the current time, but you can still get an idea!)
Graph showing power usage, CPU frequency, and CPU temperature over time
Sneak peek..
sbc.compare/coolers/stoc...
It's a work in progress, build in public kinda vibe. There are some tweaks to be made but this is roughly how it's going to be. What are we thinking?
Happy Monday!
Definitely on my shortlist!
Screenshot of a dashboard showing single board computer test agents and their benchmark status
Busy busy working on implementing new tests and a better test framework in the background for sbc.compare
I've implemented tinymembench and openssl using the same logic as sbc-bench, I'm looking at something with MAME, along with something on the GPU side..
Any requests?!
A chonkier @raspberrypi.com AI HAT+ 2 dropped today with 8GB of on-board RAM (in this economy?) and 40 TOPS from the Hailo-10H..
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For all of the "Speed is great, but what about longevity?" comments I get on my microSD card roundups... This one's for you π
I'll throw together a bit of a blog post soon to share more info, but TL;DR, I'm also testing out the endurance of a range of microSD cards to see how they fare π§
I thought Iβd recreate this for 2025 whilst I did some cleaning in the office ahead of the new year.. This is what was tested to make sbc.compare a reality this year!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and I wish you all a very Happy New Year, may 2026 bring you everything you need π₯°
What do people use n8n for? I keep seeing people sing its praises so I had a look.. Everything just looks to be AI generated content, or things that should probably just a script and a cron job? π€
Maybe I'm looking for a solution to a problem I don't have.. π
This kind of reminds me of when I was living in Valencia and Fallas would come around with all of the decorations.. I miss those times :D
Iβm currently working on an article about the Radxa Fogwise Airbox Q900 (with its 8 βbigβ Qualcomm A78C cores and 36GB of RAM) and itβs an efficient little guy..
The CIX P1 topped the Linpack Gflops/W table for about 2 weeks before this arrived π
sbc.compare/linpack
Leave that poor thing alone π
VisionFive 2 Lite SBC close up, with the JH7110 S SoC in view
StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite SBC Box
Sunday nightβs play toy is the StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite.
Another #RISCV board to add to the collection, with M.2 NVMe support, PoE headers, and some other fun stuff.
Up on sbc.compare in the next few days!
Radxa Fogwise Airbox Q900 SBC in its case
Radxa Fogwise Airbox Q900 SBC Box
I had something very interesting waiting for me when I got home today.. the Radxa Fogwise Airbox Q900 π
8 big cores, 36GB LPDDR5 (my retirement is sorted), and 128GB of UFS.. mama mia
Raspberry Pi have introduced a 1GB RAM variant alongside price increases for the rest of the range π
:old-man-yells-at-ai:
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That sweep will include a range of new tests, and some small improvements here and there. I really should do a better job of documenting everything π
Thereβs a chance you could get it down a bit, as all of my testing is down with the performance governor, including the idle power draw. I have it on my to-do list to switch back to the default governor for the idle reading but it hasnβt crept on yet. Likely when I next do a sweep of everything..
And finally, if you're fine with 2GB of RAM and have a few extra dollars to hand, the @raspberrypi.com 5 enters the battle a romps even further ahead :D
sbc.compare/10-raspberry...
Why do I say it's probably not worth it if you don't care about the Arduino ecosystem? Well, if we filter by price at sbc.compare/browse?price... you can see 3 boards outperform it, with the Radxa A7A being 3x faster both on single, and all-core GB6 tests (it also has 4GB more RAM!)
A close up of the Qualcomm QRB2210 SoC on the Arduino UNO Q Single Board Computer
The @officialarduino.bsky.social UNO Q is now up on sbc.compare to.. compare?
sbc.compare/96-arduino-u...
TL;DR if you're looking for an SBC to do your usual stuff on, it's probably not worth it. Into Arduino things and want to tinker? It's probably a decent enough shout!
I'm posting this far too late to capitalise on the lucrative Black Friday traffic but hey, I can at least confirm that Amazon haven't pulled a bait and switch yet on their Basics microSD cards..
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