Linux 4.6 To Offer Faster Raspberry Pi 3D Performance

[chithanh]

boxie
The NUC consumes considerably more energy and is much more expensive. It is not in the same league as the RPi.
Also it comes with way more proprietary baggage attached. While for the VideoCore people are getting close to replace blobs with free software, Intel is moving into the other direction.

[boxie]

boxie
The NUC consumes considerably more energy and is much more expensive. It is not in the same league as the RPi.
Also it comes with way more proprietary baggage attached. While for the VideoCore people are getting close to replace blobs with free software, Intel is moving into the other direction.

It sure does consume more energy (but not by a lot). The NUC is also considerably more supported (Intel's open source team does a lot of good work!). It even does all the things you want. right now. No waiting for future tech to make it cheaper.

As for the firmware blobs, you have a point (I personally do not care all that much about firmware blobs) in that VC4 is going to be much more open.

The cost is an obvious downside

The performance of the SBC is steadily going up at a given price point. in the future your current wishlist will be met, but your future wishlist may not be

[leiptrstormr]

I would rather see them continue to make the Raspberry Pi as open as possible than have them add more bells and whistles. Raspberry Pi 3 was a mistake. The people wanting bluetooth, wifi, and armv8 will have a new list of demands and move on to something else when the next batch of forgettable ARM single boards come out.

[bnolsen]

For *general software use*, an Asus chromebox with 2 filled sodimm slots (4GB), 16GB msata ssd, usb3 ports and celery 2955u goes for 100usd refurbished. Remove a screw and install whatever OS you like. Power supply is 65W, but reports are it runs ~11W under full load (cpu + gpu) without peripherals. Yup, still costs almost 2x as much as on outfitted rpi, but you get more than 2x features with it.

Raspberry pi, odroid, etc are getting there but for *general purpose sofware* use its hard to argue with one of these proven intel platforms.
Sometimes its fun to be a part of the journey of these sbc's though.

[slacka]

Any chance we could get another GLAMOR, SNA, UXA benchmark? I don't think the pi has any other options, but It would be interesting to see if GLAMOR has closed the gap in terms of performance and/or power usage on Intel systems.

[LoveRPi]

They need working device trees first. We can't even get Linux 4.5 with 3D graphics loaded properly. It just turns to a black screen whenever we enable the overlay.