Pineberry Pi spotted. The police are on their way.

The Pi Cast (12/10) Talking SBC's with Bret from Bret.dk YouTube video by Tom's Hardware

I can't believe this was over a year ago already, @biglesp.bsky.social 😅 I thought I'd rewatch it to see how it went but had to turn it off after a few seconds of hearing my own voice back 😂 Though it'd be fun to talk about sbc.compare in some capacity at some point

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Oh for sure, these are just the 2 examples I picked to work on the UI 😁 I haven’t officially launched the feature yet, but yup, other boards will get their moments!

Hey guysss, could I ask for some feedback?

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You can then also see more details (including power/CPU freq) on a particular cooler like sbc.compare/coolers/bana...

Any comments? Ideas? Should I scrap it all?!

Me seeing all of the EmbeddedWorld posts kicking off today

Raspberry Pi CM0 & EDATEC CM0NANO - Raspberry Pi's Smallest Compute Module - bret.dk What IS the Raspberry Pi CM0 exactly, and why haven't we heard a great deal about it?

My curiosity surrounding the @raspberrypi.com Compute Module 0 got the better of me, so I ordered the EDATEC CM0NANO to see it with my own eyes..

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Damn it! Living out in the continent means I’m not constantly bombarded with reminders and I forgot 🥲

You can see the drivers and versions used in the Test Environment section towards the top of the comparison page!

Also, if you just want to check out a leaderboard for these new tests:

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Graph showing the glmark2 results on the Libre Computer Alta, Radxa Q900, and Raspberry Pi CM0 SBCs

We now have glmark2, vkmark, and tinymembench up on sbc.compare - albeit only on a few boards for now!

All new boards will have these tests run against them, assuming the vendors are nice and their images have drivers 😈

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Luckily the automation will take care of most of it and I'll be mostly sitting around waiting to swap boards out! It'll likely still take me a couple of weeks though with everything else going on.. I should go over the automation and setup I have here at some point..

A cardboard box filled with Radxa Single Board Computers

Pre-Chinese New Year care package from Radxa, all to be listed on sbc.compare soon!

I must say, it’s pretty validating to have one of the big players see the value in having almost their entire range available on the website. Hopefully other vendors will follow suit!

(the data was a quick test run where the CPU governor wasn't set correctly at the start, and the timestamps along the bottom will start from 0 rather than the current time, but you can still get an idea!)

Graph showing power usage, CPU frequency, and CPU temperature over time

Sneak peek..

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It's a work in progress, build in public kinda vibe. There are some tweaks to be made but this is roughly how it's going to be. What are we thinking?

Happy Monday!

Definitely on my shortlist!

Screenshot of a dashboard showing single board computer test agents and their benchmark status

Busy busy working on implementing new tests and a better test framework in the background for sbc.compare

I've implemented tinymembench and openssl using the same logic as sbc-bench, I'm looking at something with MAME, along with something on the GPU side..

Any requests?!

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Launched - Generative AI on the Pi 5 - bret.dk Raspberry Pi launches the AI HAT+ 2 for Pi 5. Featuring the Hailo-10H, 40 TOPS of performance, and 8GB of dedicated RAM to run local GenAI models like Llama 3.2 and DeepSeek.

A chonkier @raspberrypi.com AI HAT+ 2 dropped today with 8GB of on-board RAM (in this economy?) and 40 TOPS from the Hailo-10H..

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For all of the "Speed is great, but what about longevity?" comments I get on my microSD card roundups... This one's for you 😅

I'll throw together a bit of a blog post soon to share more info, but TL;DR, I'm also testing out the endurance of a range of microSD cards to see how they fare 🧐

I thought I’d recreate this for 2025 whilst I did some cleaning in the office ahead of the new year.. This is what was tested to make sbc.compare a reality this year!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and I wish you all a very Happy New Year, may 2026 bring you everything you need 🥰

What do people use n8n for? I keep seeing people sing its praises so I had a look.. Everything just looks to be AI generated content, or things that should probably just a script and a cron job? 🤔

Maybe I'm looking for a solution to a problem I don't have.. 😅

This kind of reminds me of when I was living in Valencia and Fallas would come around with all of the decorations.. I miss those times :D

I’m currently working on an article about the Radxa Fogwise Airbox Q900 (with its 8 “big” Qualcomm A78C cores and 36GB of RAM) and it’s an efficient little guy..

The CIX P1 topped the Linpack Gflops/W table for about 2 weeks before this arrived 😅

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Leave that poor thing alone 😂

VisionFive 2 Lite SBC close up, with the JH7110 S SoC in view

StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite SBC Box

Sunday night’s play toy is the StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite.

Another #RISCV board to add to the collection, with M.2 NVMe support, PoE headers, and some other fun stuff.

Up on sbc.compare in the next few days!

Radxa Fogwise Airbox Q900 SBC in its case

Radxa Fogwise Airbox Q900 SBC Box

I had something very interesting waiting for me when I got home today.. the Radxa Fogwise Airbox Q900 😍

8 big cores, 36GB LPDDR5 (my retirement is sorted), and 128GB of UFS.. mama mia

1GB Raspberry Pi 5 Launched Alongside Price Increases - bret.dk The Raspberry Pi 5 gets a new, 1GB RAM model, and the rest of the Pi 5 range (along with the Pi 4 and Compute Modules) get price increases.

Raspberry Pi have introduced a 1GB RAM variant alongside price increases for the rest of the range 📈

:old-man-yells-at-ai:

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That sweep will include a range of new tests, and some small improvements here and there. I really should do a better job of documenting everything 😄

There’s a chance you could get it down a bit, as all of my testing is down with the performance governor, including the idle power draw. I have it on my to-do list to switch back to the default governor for the idle reading but it hasn’t crept on yet. Likely when I next do a sweep of everything..

Raspberry Pi 5 2GB vs Radxa Cubie A7A 6GB vs Arduino UNO Q 2GB | sbc.compare Compare Raspberry Pi 5 2GB vs Radxa Cubie A7A 6GB vs Arduino UNO Q 2GB specifications, benchmarks, and performance. See detailed side-by-side analysis of...

And finally, if you're fine with 2GB of RAM and have a few extra dollars to hand, the @raspberrypi.com 5 enters the battle a romps even further ahead :D

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Why do I say it's probably not worth it if you don't care about the Arduino ecosystem? Well, if we filter by price at sbc.compare/browse?price... you can see 3 boards outperform it, with the Radxa A7A being 3x faster both on single, and all-core GB6 tests (it also has 4GB more RAM!)