garyopa
01-26-2012, 07:54 AM
The 25$ credit-card sized microcomputer has more power than Apple's smartphone
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Its Broadcom GPU was compared with the iPhone's and it has better performance, almost doubles it.
For those who doesn't know anything about the Raspberry Pi, just a quick introduction:
Raspberry Pi is a microcomputer the size of a credit card wich is based on ARM architecture that costs between 25-35$ depending on RAM amount (128 or 256MB).
It has USB, LAN, SDReader, HDMI Video and Audio Out and all that you need to get it running. As O.S. it comes with Linux distro, preloaded on the SD Card but more distros are becoming compatible including and special version of XBMC (Xbox Media Center) project.
You have more info about it in the official webpage: http://www.raspberrypi.org
This is not a high-end computer but is not intended to. It's capable of outputting HD video at 1080p without a problem.
A recent interview with Eben Upton, a former executive director of Raspberry Pi, claims that the GPU Potential of the microcomputer, overtakes the one the iPhone 4S is using. In his own words:
"Should double iPhone 4S performance across a range of content".
"I was on the team that designed the graphics core, so I'm a little biased here, but I genuinely believe we have the best mobile GPU team in the world at Broadcom in Cambridge," Upton said.
"What's really striking is how badly Tegra 2 performs relative even to simple APs using licensed Imagination Technologies (TI and Apple) or ARM Mali (Samsung) graphics. To summarise, BCM2835 has a tile mode architecture - so it kills immediate-mode devices like Tegra on fill-rate - and we've chosen to configure it with a very large amount of shader performance, so it does very well on compute-intensive benchmarks, and should double iPhone 4S performance across a range of content."
So, if you like a microcomputer as a media-center for your dining room, this could be the one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC36ujbfnls
OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.raspberrypi.org/
NEWS SOURCE: Raspberry Pi beats iPhone 4s graphics performance (via) GamesIndustry (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-01-25-raspberry-pi-beats-iphone-4s-graphics-performance)
Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for another fine news story!
http://www.maxconsole.com/maxconsole/contents/RKLS0000001089/icon_xl.jpg
Its Broadcom GPU was compared with the iPhone's and it has better performance, almost doubles it.
For those who doesn't know anything about the Raspberry Pi, just a quick introduction:
Raspberry Pi is a microcomputer the size of a credit card wich is based on ARM architecture that costs between 25-35$ depending on RAM amount (128 or 256MB).
It has USB, LAN, SDReader, HDMI Video and Audio Out and all that you need to get it running. As O.S. it comes with Linux distro, preloaded on the SD Card but more distros are becoming compatible including and special version of XBMC (Xbox Media Center) project.
You have more info about it in the official webpage: http://www.raspberrypi.org
This is not a high-end computer but is not intended to. It's capable of outputting HD video at 1080p without a problem.
A recent interview with Eben Upton, a former executive director of Raspberry Pi, claims that the GPU Potential of the microcomputer, overtakes the one the iPhone 4S is using. In his own words:
"Should double iPhone 4S performance across a range of content".
"I was on the team that designed the graphics core, so I'm a little biased here, but I genuinely believe we have the best mobile GPU team in the world at Broadcom in Cambridge," Upton said.
"What's really striking is how badly Tegra 2 performs relative even to simple APs using licensed Imagination Technologies (TI and Apple) or ARM Mali (Samsung) graphics. To summarise, BCM2835 has a tile mode architecture - so it kills immediate-mode devices like Tegra on fill-rate - and we've chosen to configure it with a very large amount of shader performance, so it does very well on compute-intensive benchmarks, and should double iPhone 4S performance across a range of content."
So, if you like a microcomputer as a media-center for your dining room, this could be the one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC36ujbfnls
OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.raspberrypi.org/
NEWS SOURCE: Raspberry Pi beats iPhone 4s graphics performance (via) GamesIndustry (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-01-25-raspberry-pi-beats-iphone-4s-graphics-performance)
Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for another fine news story!