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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Benchmarks Show Significantly Improved Performance (phoronix.com)
fstack writes: Pi Day was marked this year by the launch of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ as the next evolution to this $35 ARM single-board computer. Phoronix has now put out Raspberry Pi 3 B+ benchmarks showing that the Ethernet performance is indeed much faster now but still doesn't stack up to other high performance boards, the SoC temperature is noticeably lower than the very warm Raspberry Pi 3, and the overall performance is a nice upgrade while retaining the same price point as its predecessors. Follow up tests looking at the Wi-Fi performance also show the new 802.11ac dual-band wireless to be much faster as well.
This is 21 century. Raspberry needs to keep up.
Too bad they couldn't upgrade the server to the B+ so I could actually read this story.
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is the capability to act as a proper router / server.
As in: at least two Ethernet ports, Wifi in AP mode, and SATA/PCIe or similar storage abilities.
I have seen solutions that have all those nice things, but they either have a failed design, are not really Linux-compatible or open, or are insanely expensive (like $150-200).
Does anybody know a solution that costs <$100 or even <$50, and does all those things?
(Without sacrificing the GPIO functionality of course. Home automation is one of the biggest advantages of such a platform.)
two Ethernet needs pci-e based nics to be useful
my TL;DR
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OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
I'd really like to see a Pi Model 3 B++ model that has 2GB memory. :)
I'm setting up a small computer classroom for robotics and programming. The only thing the current Pi-3 doesn't do that I really need is to run the OnShape online CAD program (since it doesn't seem to have enough power to run WebGL properly). I'm hoping that the new version will have enough resources to run OnShape. It would mean that students could design, slice, and 3D print objects for robots, and to program those robots, all with just a Raspberry Pi. The cool thing is that the current version of the Pi-3 is powerful enough to run TensorFlow, so our robots (which use Pi-3's) can actually do camera based machine learning (we do the training on regular PC's, though it can be done rather slowly on the Pi-3).
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when first he appears as a protector - Plato (423 to 327 BC)
What I found the most interesting in these benchmarks however is how much faster the Asus Tinkerboard is.
It also has four ARM cores and clocked at 1.8 GHz (a third faster) but is several times faster than the Raspberry Pi B+ in some CPU benchmarks. The difference is that the Tinkerboard's CPU cores are running out-of-order while the Raspberry Pi B+'s A53 cores run in-order.
Other than that, the A53 is capable of running 64-bit ARM code which is supposed to be faster than the corresponding 32-bit code.
These tests were run on Raspbian however, which does still not have support for 64-bit code.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
You know ... as a personal "cloud", with a dynamic DNS domain, VPN, storage, PIM services, mail/IM, LDAP, firewall, etc
Donâ(TM)t mind if I do!
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Seems slow to me, but doable ... even with RAID, given multiple ports. But would that bring any more speed?
Otherwise that sounds much more realistic than I thought. I just always imagined SATA and an on-board router would be a requirement.
BTW, the Banana PI R was actually pretty nice once you got around the failed power design by powering it through the battery connector, and made damn sure it was never physically connected to the Internet without its VLAN to the router chip fully set up. (I had a FritzBox Internet router in front of it, configured so that it only gave the Ethernet port any access to anything but the FritzBox itself, unless a script on the Banana that got executed when it was fully booted temporarily opened it.)
Too bad it died due to a bad voltage on the USB to UART connector when my PC's PSU ruined everything.
Is the I2C still broken ? can it now communicate with AVRs and other slower peripherials ??
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Try to run Abiword and watch the fun begin.
Isn't that a Word Processor. The Raspberry Pi is a pedagogical computer. For use by school kids. What use would they have for a Word Processor. The RPi has it's own port of Minecraft. Isn't that what's important?
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35 dollars. You literally have to have a computer to make it work. Either someone else is making an image you are buying, or you are putting an image on the card..with another computer. Applying the merits of a system based on full usage when you could not start with the 35 dollar computer w/o another computer is simply retarded. So many experts always missing the point. This is why Surface Laptops exist. This is why iPhones remain dominant. Listen, because this is important. We are heading towards full retard at a very rapid pace. You people need to cut it out. Never go full retard.
I think Autocad 9 (circa 1987) had a primitive 3D capability and v 10 might have had full-on 3D drawing? If so, the PI should have WAAAAAY more power than the 486 CPU's we threw at our CAD stations in the early 1990's.
So if the CAD program was efficient, you should be able to do basic CAD and maybe just not solid modeling???
Thank you! That is really cool!
I'm rolling my own Linux anyway, using Gentoo as a basis, but heavily modified. As long as the kernel is supported, everything is fine. (So I'll just transplant a kernel from one of those distros.)
I’ll definitely buy that one!
That means its GPIO is useless.
Making it no better than just using my old PC's board, except for not using as much power.
Sad... it looked soo good!
4GB of LPDDR3, real Gigabit ethernet, optional wifi/bt adapter, Mali GPU (2x the GFLOPS of the VC4, but less programmable), eMMC socket for 16-64GB eMMC cards, 2x USB2 and 1x USB3, plus both styles of Pi headers. 45 dollars for the 4GB model, 35 dollars for the 2GB model, and 25 dollars for the 1GB model. Wifi will add another 15 bucks, 3amp barrel jack PSUs are 8 dollars. It's not as cheap as the Pi3, but wifi is optional for people who consider it a security issue for a network attached device, it has emmc support which should be much more reliable than sd cards for long term use, and it has both real gigabit ethernet and usb 3 which should cover the majority of expansion needs for a SBC.
As to WHY the Pi hasn't gotten more than 1GB of RAM: It has been stated this was a physical limitation of the VideoCore4 processor, which doubles as the memory controller for the SoC's system bus. The VC5 with MMU support will be able to get around this limitation, although it is believed no device will come out before may 2019 or 2020.
Schools kids don't use Pi's Schools don't buy them as they have no lesson plan and have nobody qualified to teach the kids anything more complex than the basics of Word.