The Rock 5B is not a Raspberry Pi killer–yet

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If you have a little patience you can get a pi at MSRP from official retailers which have their stock listed here: https://rpilocator.com/

You can also use my telegram bot https://github.com/sschueller/rpilocatorbot which will send you a message as soon as the one you want is in stock.

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Yeah, I was wondering about that. I haven’t checked the Armbian reference kernels, but they might fix some of your build issues.

But it was good to see you confirm one of my red flags about the board:

I have been looking for a good board to run https://github.com/pimox/pimox7 (I currently use my Pi 4 8GB for that, hosting a bunch of test LXC containers), and something faster that could boot off an NVME without hassle would be great. Looks like the Rock 5B isn’t it.

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The ship today price from amazon was $180.

I was curious about system power (not just TDP), so I hooked up a kill-a-watt, at idle, ubuntu 22.04, normal stuff running (like sshd) and so far it's taken 7 hours to accumulate 0.01 kwh, sadly not very accurate yet, so I'll leave it go till at least 0.02 kwh, looks like an average idle around 1 watt.

I've been pondering some easy benchmarks from the command line, so far I've come up with:

1) openssl speed -bytes 16384 sha256 sha512 aes-256-cbc rsa2048

2) 7z b # benchmark mode for 7zip

3) wget https://github.com/jtsiomb/c-ray/releases/download/v2.0/c-ra... tar xvf c-ray-2.0.tar.gz; cd c-ray-2.0; make; time ./c-ray-fast ./sphfract.scn -s 3840x2160 -r 4 -o output.pnm -p

4) any similar ideas that are easy, reports a useful number (or a few) in 5 minutes or less?

I'll run similar later on the rk3588, once I get a better idea of the idle watts.

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