Odroid-U3: A quad-core 1.7GHz ARM single-board computer for $59

Re:Odroid-U3: A quad-core 1.7GHz ARM single-board computer f... by roeme on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @10:56AM (#7634306)

But the same limitation applies to the contenders, doesn't it? As they're not _that_ much more powerful to make a real difference in this case, or am I wrong?

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Re:Odroid-U3: A quad-core 1.7GHz ARM single-board computer f... by Nursie on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:53AM (#7634769)

Err, no. The differences are pretty massive. The Samsung and Qualcomm processor cores are not only much, much faster but more sophisticated too. The Pi is very basic.

The Pi was also not the first of these boards, merely one that had great marketing and an appealing price point. My sheevaplug predates it by a couple of years (and is still faster)

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Re:Odroid-U3: A quad-core 1.7GHz ARM single-board computer f... by vardump on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @06:12PM (#7637267)

The problem is not that RPi doesn't have the horsepower. It does - but you've got to use Videocore IV. Hopefully there'll be some good compiler with at least intrinsic support for it.

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Re:Odroid-U3: A quad-core 1.7GHz ARM single-board computer f... by clarry on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:12AM (#7634424)

Actually the difference between the RPi's CPU and the CPUs on beefier ARM boards is quite staggering.

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