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Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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Re: Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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Post by madduci »

tzs wrote: post #43

I've got a brute force solver for the NYT Pips game. There's a particular puzzle that it takes 45.2 seconds on on my M2 Max Mac Studio. The solver is single threaded and doesn't use much memory so it is mostly limited by CPU and memory speed. I ran it on my Pi 3, 4, 5, Intel iMac, and on my cheap Amazon Lightsail instance. Here are the results, in seconds: 680.4 RPi 3 274.5 RPi 4 131.3 RPi 5 108.5 Lightsail 78.7 2017…

This reminds me of the Pi Digits benchmark, used back then, when Pentium III/IV were sold, to sell how CPU had improved back then

Re: Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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Post by madduci »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #71
travisgriggs wrote: post #70

About 7 years ago, we deployed a “gateway/orchestration” role device in ag tech. Power draw is a big concern for us (not a lot of free power out in the middle of fields). We used an SBC from Emtrion. I remember asking my EE counterpart at the time “why not a Pi? Surely someone makes hardened versions of those?” He was skeptical and I think the aura of “toy/hobby/maker” scared him off. Fast forward. We’re getting read…

Hah! And the value of the Pi for these kinds of ~industrial applications is why there was a shortage of Pis for hobbyists. It's funny how Raspberry Pi started out for an educational market, and accidentally revolutionized the embedded market.

Honestly, in all my life I've never seen the Pi being sold in EU for €35. The min. price I've found has always been around 45/50, with Pi5 never under 75, because of scalpers

Re: Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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Post by mappum »

mappu wrote: post #73
tzs wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says "512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GV SSD" and "General Purpose". It was whatever was the cheapest when I made it. Looking at the instance creation page it looks like it is no longer available. The cheapest now has 2 vCPU and the same other specs. If anyone would like to run it on something else for comparison I've put it Pastebin [1]. Normally, a script converts the puzzle into a header file that describes the puzzle i…

Fun! 126 Intel N5105, gcc -O2 (Debian) 98 Neoverse N1, gcc -O2 (Debian) - Oracle Cloud 63 Snapdragon 8gen3, clang -O2 (Termux) - Xiaomi 14 59 Ryzen 7600, clang -O2 (MSYS2 / Windows 11) 48 Ryzen 7600, clang -O2 (Debian) 45 Ryzen 7600, gcc -O2 (Debian)

Interesting username

Re: Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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Post by wao0uuno »

mooracle wrote: post #68

Pi 5 pricing gets harder to justify when you add up the extras. 8GB board + active cooler + good SD card + case + power supply = $150+ easily. Used 1L mini PCs (EliteDesk, ThinkCentre Tiny, etc.) with i5-8400T/8GB/256GB go for $50-100 on eBay. You get x86 compatibility, NVMe support, real Ethernet, and no thermal throttling. Running an EliteDesk 800 G4 with 2.5GbE adapter and 2x2TB NVMe for home server duties. Draws…

Nobody sane buys a Pi to do regular computing stuff. People buy Pis because:

- They are small and can be powered with PoE.

- They come with GPIO.

- They can be paired with a small display and turned into appliance.

- They use very little power and generate very little heat.

Building Raspberry Pi clusters with kubernetes is just something youtubers do for clicks. Normal people buy Raspberry Pis because they want an open and hackable Home Assistant control panel built into their wall or they enjoy playing with servos and LEDs.

Re: Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

verginer wrote: post #12

I finally found a job for my Raspberry Pi 1 Model B from 2012. It’s been sitting in a drawer for years, but about a 2 years ago added it to my Tailscale network as an exit node. It’s a single-core 700MHz ARMv6 chip with 512MB of RAM. It's a fossil—a Pi 5 is 600x faster (according to the video). But for the 'low-bandwidth' task of routing some banking traffic or running a few changedetection watches via a Hetzner VPS…

I run customised NetBSD on the Model B. Fits in 512MB

I never use a wall plug as I can easily power it from other computers' USB ports

It came with a WiFi dongle but I prefer to connect it to a WiFi travel router via Ethernet if I need wireless

Re: Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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Post by usagisushi »

3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #39
JLO64 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But a PC like what you’re suggesting would result in a much higher energy bill compared to a Pi if you leave it on 24/7 to use as a server.

Those Intel N100 machines sip power. Supposedly with some tweaking, people have gotten them down to idle at ~2watts.

I recently got a junk M2 MacBook Air (16GB/512GB) with a broken screen for $250. It idles at just 0.2W (!) when accessed via SSH. While it offers zero expandability, lacks wired LAN, and runs on a non-free OS, it's an interesting candidate for an ultra-low-power inference server.

Re: Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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Post by zikduruqe »

varispeed wrote: post #67
zikduruqe wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a fun weekend project in 2013, I stood up a weather station using Weewx and my RPI 2 with 1 GB RAM. I told myself if it ever crashes or the SD card gets corrupted, I'll just tear everything down. Well, it's still running today on the original SD card. At noon today it processed its 1,055,425th record in the database. Still, if it ever crashes, I'll just tear it down. :)

Sounds like you want it to crash really badly :)

Indeed. I'm not going to do anything to cause its demise, but when it does go, it is gone.

Re: Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

andai wrote: post #55
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #23

I think the Pi 3 range is a sweet spot for low cost, low power draw, decent-enough CPU. Newer models draw increasingly more power; going from 1.4W to 2.8W may not seem like much, but that's half your battery life. There's a few differences in Raspberry Pi 3 versions that may lead you to buy one or the other: - The Pi 3B has 10/100 Ethernet, 802.11n (single-band) WiFi, Bluetooth 4.1. Power idled at 1.4W and peaked at…

Is the $25 price used? I'm finding the 3, 4 and 5 cost almost the same from web shops (for the 1GB version).

The 3A+ is $25 on most sites; Sparkfun lists the 3B+ in stock for $43.50, Adafruit has the 3B in stock for $35, you can find more examples by googling
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