Gadgetory

when the original Raspberry Pi was released in 2012 it created a whole movement of developers hobbyist and educationalist who used the small arm base board to create hack and teach it succeeded for three main reasons first of all it was a full desktop computer it had compilers so you could write programs secondly it had a set of general purpose input output pins GPIO pins that could be connected to motors and sensors and so many other different things similar to what you'd get on microcontroller platforms like the Arduino and thirdly and probably most importantly only cost $35 well that was 2012 and since then the single board computer market has changed quite significantly and today we're going to be looking at four boards that are available in 2015 that could be alternatives to the original Raspberry Pi now the four boards I've chosen are ones that I personally have ones that I have used ones that I have reviewed one I've spent time with in the written article that goes with this video I've included links and suggestions to other boards that you also might want to consider but in this video I'm only using ones that I have personal experience of now the four board I've chosen are the raspberry PI's to the O's yc1 the humming boards ie X 2 and the mix creator CI xx so let's take a look at them the SBC market is heavily dominated by arm and three of the four boards we looking at today have ARM Cortex based processors the exception is the mix CI 20 creator which has a dual-core MIPS processor now before we start to compare all these boards together I think it'd be good if I formally introduce you to each one although the Raspberry Pi 1 was enormous ly successful there was one complaint the overall performance of the board was lacking especially when running desktop applications but performance was less than desirable because it used a single core CPU clocked at just 900 megahertz considering the cost the innovation of the board and his versatility and the performance was perfectly understandable but there was room for an improvement and that improvement came in the form of the Raspberry Pi 2 which uses a quad core processor and doubles the amount of RAM even though the PI 2 is more powerful has more memory the Raspberry Pi foundation managed to keep the price exactly the same and this really was a guarantee for success so quickly looking at the specifications for the Raspberry Pi 2 uses a 900 megahertz quad-core arm cortex a7 processor from Broadcom has a video core for GPU 1 gigs of ram and the storage is provided by an SD card slot you also get four years B ports HDMI Ethernet and an audio jack output there are also of course the GPIO pins a camera interface and so on and it's price is just $35 one company that has managed to build a board for the same basic price as the Raspberry Pi is hard colonel called the Oh droid see one it cost just $35 and like the Raspberry Pi uses a quad-core processor the Oh droid see one isn't the only SBC that hard colonel make but it's the cheapest details about their other boards can be found in the written companion looking at the specs of the Odroid c1 it uses a 1.5 gigahertz quad-core arm cortex a5 CPU it has a Mali 450 GPU one gigabytes of RAM storage is provided by SD card or emmc module and then of course you get the four USB port a micro HDMI port Gigabit Ethernet infrared remote control receiver the GPIO pins and a battery backup connector for the real-time clock it costs just $35 another company which offers several different SBC's is solid run all of their boards are built around free scales imx6 series of processors the imx6 ranges based on arms cortex a9 design and scales from single to quad-core the humming board I - II X uses a dual-core imx6 processor and comes with 1 gig of ram but it also has the same fall factor as the Raspberry Pi one in fact it will even fit into a case designed for the first-generation Pi the humming board I 2x uses a 1 gigahertz dual-core cortex a9 base 2 CPU and the GC 2,000 GPU it comes with 1 gigabyte of RAM and has an SD card slot for storage you also get two USB ports HDMI Ethernet and an infrared remote control receiver on board you also have the GPIO pins and a connector for a real-time clock battery it costs a hundred and ten dollars the one board in our lineup which doesn't use an arm-based processor is the MIT CI 20 creator at its heart is a dual-core MIPS based processor coupled with a power VR GPU and backed by one gigs of RAM it is also unique than the includes its own built-in storage plus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth at just $65 it's more expensive in the Odroid c1 and the Raspberry Pi 2 but you are getting more for your money and so that's the hardware what about the software will all the ball - capable of running at least 2 operating systems they all run Linux and three of the four run Android the only Baba doesn't run Android is the Raspberry Pi - that's because the Raspberry Pi foundation don't see Android as a priority and apparently there are some porting difficulties with some missing drivers from Broadcom Herber the other three board all do run Android 4.4 KitKat and they're all also capable of running Android 5.0 lollipop however none of the board manufacturers have actually released a firmware at this time to judge the relative performance of a handle on each of these boards I will use the following criteria features performance and support for Google's services the two main Android features that distinguish one board from another huh support for sound over HDMI and the support for USB flash drives the best board in terms of these features at the Odroid c1 the humming board in the CA 20 don't support USB flash drive under android and the CA 20 doesn't support sound over HDMI scoring each board out of four four features the Odroid c1 gets the maximum four points the humming board gets three points and the CA 20 gets two points next performance using antutu as a guide to the relative performance the Odroid c1 scores 15 thousand eight hundred eighty seven and the humming board i - e^x cos twelve thousand one hundred ninety eight I wasn't able to test the CIA 20 but according to comments I've seen on the internet it scores less than the other two so scoring again out of four points the Odroid gets a maximum of four the humming board gets three in the CI twenty gets two finally in terms of support for Google Play and Google services the humming board comes with Google Play pre-installed whereas the Odroid c1 doesn't include Google services by default but you can install them via a quick hack the CIA 20 doesn't include any support for Google services whatsoever therefore scoring each board again out of four points with Google Play support the humming board gets four points this Odroid C one gets three points and the CI twenty scores two since the Raspberry Pi doesn't support Android at all it will unfortunately score zero points for this section so let's add up the totals and this is what we get in first place we have the Odroid to see one with 11 points and then close right behind it is the humming board I - eh with 10 points next comes a CI 20 created with 6 points and finally the Raspberry Pi with 0 all four balls support Linux and they support it well to try and judge which board supports the mix the best I will use the following criteria the number of distribution supported performance and the amount of free memory available after a fresh boot into the desktop the board which supports the most distributions is the Raspberry Pi - largely due to the sheer sizes user community there are applied to is such a popular platform and it receives a lot of attention when it comes to porting however the Odroid c1 isn't too far behind and neither is the humming board last but not least comes the mips CI 20 partly because it's a relatively new board and partly because it uses a mips-based processor rather than an ARM based processor the number of distributions is less on the CI 20 however it's still quite respectable it includes Debian gen - an angstrom therefore the scores for the Linux distribution section are Raspberry Pi 4 points o droid c1 and humming boards tied on three points and the CI 21 point as for performance the open SSL command-line told has a speed option which tests the performance of its various cryptographic algorithms it also provides a good way to judge the relative performance of one CPU compared to another the scores are quite revealing the fastest board of the four in terms of CPU performance without using the GPU is the Odroid c1 next comes the humming board followed by the Raspberry Pi - last place but not by much goes to the CIA 20 as a result the scores for the performance section are Odroid 4 points humming board 3 points raspberry pi 2 points and the CI 21 point since the bored all have one gigabyte of RAM it's important how much free memory remains once the board boots up into the desktop graphical user interfaces can be memory hoaxes and each of the board uses a lightweight window manager to try and conserve memory the most frugal board is the Raspberry Pi 2 which had over 800 makes free after booting next comes a CI 20 which had over 700 Meg's followed by the C 1 which had 400 Meg's and finally the humming board which had 300 Meg's so the score for the free memory test our Raspberry Pi 4 points the CI a 23 points the Odroid c1 2 points and the humming board 1 point therefore adding up all the scores for this section the results of the linux tests are as follows raspberry pi is the overall winner with 10 points the Odroid c1 9 points in third place the humming board i 2 e^x with 7 points and a fourth place the CI 20 creator with 5 points all 4 boards should support Cody so to test the performance of Cody I use its internal codec display information to show the frame rate and the amount of CPU time being used to code the video and then produce a full HD 50 megabits a second version of my ZTE Blade s6 plus review video and played in each board the Odroid C 1 and the humming board I 2 e^x both did an excellent job of displaying the video both managed to consistently show the video and its full frame rate and neither tax the CPU too much the same can't be said for the Raspberry Pi with disappointingly could only manage 9 frames a second instead of the needed 23 point nine seven frames per second and unfortunately I couldn't find an easily accessible version of kony to run on the CI 20 and neither could I find a video player to play the video from any of the online repositories so the scores for this section are Odroid C one for the humming board for Raspberry Pi 2 and the CI 20 0 the big news that accompanied the release of the Raspberry Pi 2 was that Microsoft will be releasing a version of Windows 10 for the small board however we might be disappointed because it's not going to be a full version of Windows it's going to be a Windows 10 for the Internet of Things devices and it may not even include a desktop however besides Windows 10 the write with PI 2 also supports riscos net VSD FreeBSD an open wrt as for the other boards they support a limited range of other operating systems besides Android and Linux for example the humming board supports FreeBSD and the Odroid C one supports net BSD also the CI twenty mix base board supports net BSD and there is work going on to port open wrt therefore for this section I'll get the full four points to the Raspberry Pi - as it has the broadest support and each of the other three boards will each get two points a big factor in picking in SBC's the size of the various online communities you might ask yourself how many people are there blogging about this board how many videos are there available on youtube are there books can you readily get help from the forums and so on there is little doubt that the Raspberry Pi 2 community is the largest this is mainly due to because of the success of the original Raspberry Pi how it's also clear that the community has embraced the new Pi 2 board with the same passion it's hard to judge between the online communities of the odor in the humming board but roughly speaking in broad terms they are approximately the same the CI 20 has the smallest community partly due to its relative newness as a result the Raspberry Pi 2 will score four points with this section the Odroid c1 and the humming board would get three points each and the CI 20 scores one point so we've tested Android we've tested Linux rooted the support for other operating systems we've considered the online communities so which board is the best but without further ado here are the results in 4th place comes the MIT's creator CI 20 with a total of 14 points in third place comes the Raspberry Pi 2 with a total of 20 points in second place comes the humming board with a total of 26 points and in first place our winner for this SBC comparison is the Odroid c1 with a total of 29 points and so there you have it yo joint c1 is our overall winner congratulations to Odroid now that might be a bit of a surprise to you maybe you're thinking the PI 2 would win but really the PI 2 fell down our test because it doesn't support Android if you take away the Android scoring from our results actually the PI 2 does beat the Oh joycie won by just a couple of points but of course the weaknesses of the Raspberry Pi 2 are more than just the fact that'll support Android it's also slower than the Odroid c1 and slower than the humming board in fact the mid CI 20 creator is actually itself only just slightly slower than the Raspberry Pi 2 also Cody isn't working very well on the PI 2 at the moment and that could be a software issue and I'm sure it will be fixed in the future but at the moment the c1 and the humming board do a better job of displaying high bitrate video now of course the online community of the Raspberry Pi 2 is absolutely massive it's unequaled and really that does compensate for some of these other weaknesses that we've talked about and if you're buying a single board computer for the first time really still the Raspberry Pi is the best online community to get into because of its immense size there is also the issue of the price of the Eau de ruyter c1 although it cost $35 directly from the manufacturer I've read online that some people are experiencing high shipping charges because it gets shipped directly from Korea and vitamin gets to your country you might have incurred quite a large cost having said that I got my board from a European distributor directly and it cost 44 euros which when you do the calculations for today is about $10 more than the price of a Raspberry Pi 2 so that wasn't too bad for me so if you want a board without Android support then probably should go with the right with PI 2 but if you want Android which of course we and Android authority think is important if you want Android then you really need to go with the Odroid c1 well my name is Gary sim from Android authority I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up also please use the comments below to tell me what you think about these 4 different boards do you have a Raspberry Pi do you have a no droid see one tell me what you think about those boards also don't forget to subscribe to and royalties YouTube channel and as for me I'll see you in my next video