Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 10:30:45 +0000 From: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Klaus_K=FCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64? Message-ID: <8FB6136B-59BB-4A8F-A33C-DCEE93B3834F@unrelenting.technology> In-Reply-To: <7E683433-883B-4105-9103-AC9C437008FB@googlemail.com> References: <202103310043.12V0hFqg023324@office.dignus.com> <6136F5CE-0E73-4A36-B3B0-CA17C8BEE9AA@unrelenting.technology> <03D4DC97-1F65-4CF3-A85B-6744A401931D@googlemail.com> <48041E50-D673-4855-A8C0-9B45D6BEA739@unrelenting.technology> <7E683433-883B-4105-9103-AC9C437008FB@googlemail.com>
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On March 31, 2021 6:38:32 PM UTC, "Klaus K=C3=BCchemann" <maciphone2@googl= email=2Ecom> wrote: > >Well, compared to the Lx2k the currently max=2E of 16GB RAM and less core= s of the M1 is something=20 >to think about =E2=80=A6 running native fbsd with 16 cores/64GB RAM seems= to be interesting=E2=80=A6 On the other hand, Apple Firestorm cores have *incredible* single-core per= formance (competitive with AMD Zen 3, even better at some tasks), while the= NXP LX2160 uses good old Arm Cortex-A72 cores, which are, well, quite old = by now =E2=80=93 not nearly that level of performance=2E If you've used an RPi4, MACCHIATObin, or a1 instances in AWS, you know the= ir performance=2E Compared to the newer Graviton2 instances that have Neoverse-N1 cores, the= y look very unimpressive=2E Maybe someday a vendor like NXP would produce a similar affordable standar= ds-compliant SoC with modern Arm Neoverse cores=2E One can dream=E2=80=A6 For now, the only option for relatively affordable big (16-great-cores) ha= rdware at home is AMD=2E
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