ROC-RK3328-CC: A Raspberry Pi Competitor With Gigabit Ethernet, USB3, DDR4

The Firefly ROC-RK3328-CC did outperform the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ performance by a decent amount in the Python language performance.

This Rockchip board also offered better PHP performance.

Running several operations on a Git repository was faster too with this board over the Raspberry Pi but the ODROID-C2 and ASUS Tinker Board as other sub-$100 ARM SBCs were faster.

The ROC-RK3328-CC did perform just ahead of the ODROID-C2 with the SciKit-Learn performance.

This Libre Computer Board generally performed faster than the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ while costing just dollars more. Even in the few cases where the performance was similar between the ROC-RK3328-CC and Raspberry Pi, the advantages of this Libre/FireFly ARM SBC include the use of DDR4 memory, USB 3.0 support, and Gigabit Ethernet.

Those interested in this ARM SBC starting out at $35~40 USD can find it at various Internet retailers including LoverPi.com who sent out this review sample.

If you want to compare your own Linux ARM/x86 performance against the benchmarks found in this article, simply install the Phoronix Test Suite and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1809047-RA-RENEGADE212. Benchmarks on some other ARM boards coming up soon.