Raspberry Pi 4 - Hackdot

Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by ris on Monday June 24, 2019 @03:05PM (#20267215)

I'm intrigued as to why they didn't use a big.LITTLE design (or whatever they're calling it these days). Perhaps mainstream-linux still isn't so great at handling it.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by detaro on Monday June 24, 2019 @03:08PM (#20267248)

Really the only benefit of that is energy efficiency if it is used correctly, in exchange for additional cost or lower max performance. Makes sense for a smartphone, less so for a mains powered device (and the Raspberry Pi SoCs originally were designed for set-top boxes, although I don't know if that's still true for the new ones or if they're custom)

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by monery on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:56PM (#20309835)

energy efficiency also leads to higher sustained clock speeds if your not using a fan to move air over a heatsink

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