{"id":1432,"date":"2013-07-20T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2013-08-13T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T18:34:11","slug":"comparing-raspberry-pi-beaglebone-and-mirabox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/comparing-raspberry-pi-beaglebone-and-mirabox\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Raspberry PI, BeagleBone, Mirabox and Wandboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across <a href=\"http:\/\/tuxshell.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/bc-as-cpu-benchmark.html\">this post<\/a> about using the Unix command-line calculator as a quick way to do a CPU benchmark. So I ran it to calculate Pi to 500 digits on various devices I had lying around the house. Take the results with several grains of salt, this was a one-off, and not very scientific at all; I just wanted to get the ballpark. Also note, this is just a math-intensive CPU test, it does not test I\/O and most other interesting things.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width: 40%\">Machine<\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 40%\">Processor<\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 20%\">Time to completion<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/sp653\">MacBook Pro Retina (2012)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>2.7GHz Intel Core i7<\/td>\n<td>20.0 sec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raspberry_Pi\">Raspberry PI Model B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Broadcom BCM2835 SoC with 700MHz ARM1176JZF-S<\/td>\n<td>262 sec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/beagleboard.org\/Products\/BeagleBone\">BeagleBone<\/a><br \/>(as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/ninjablocks.com\/\">NinjaBlocks<\/a> system)<\/td>\n<td>AM335x 720MHz ARM Cortex-A8<\/td>\n<td>246 sec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/beagleboard.org\/Products\/BeagleBone%20Black\">BeagleBone Black<\/a><\/td>\n<td>AM335x 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8<\/td>\n<td>132 sec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalscaletechnologies.com\/p-58-mirabox-development-kit.aspx\">Mirabox<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1.2GHz Marvell Armada 370 ARM v7<\/td>\n<td>107 sec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/wandboard.org\/index.php\/details\">Wandboard Quad<\/a><br \/>(note: this test only uses one CPU)<\/td>\n<td>1 GHz Freescale i.MX6 Quad<\/td>\n<td>115 sec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Updated<\/b> August 9: added Wandboard. August 13: added BeagleBone Black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this post about using the Unix command-line calculator as a quick way to do a CPU benchmark. So I ran it to calculate Pi to 500 digits on various devices I had lying around the house. Take the results with several grains of salt, this was a one-off, and not very scientific at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[278,275,279,284,277,276,283],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","tag-beaglebone","tag-benchmark","tag-mirabox","tag-quad","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-rpi","tag-wandboard","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}