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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by tyingq on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:33PM (#26561196)
Phoronix did a reasonable comparison of an Rpi4 to a Celeron G5900 and it does a pretty good job of showing why a Pi isn't a great (even low end) general purpose option. Not disputing it's usefulness in other spaces...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raspberr...

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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by justin66 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:35AM (#26563947)
The only interesting thing about that comparison is that the Pi did pretty well in the single real-world software benchmark Phoronix did (something to do with LibreOffice and pdfs), where it was 59% the speed of the Celeron G5900, and it managed that with an SD card rather than proper USB 3 storage.

"It's not as fast as a new Intel processor" is not new information...

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