ASUS release their Tinker Board Raspberry Pi competitor

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ASUS has now launched their Tinker Board, a Raspberry Pi competitor with the same form factor, additional CPU performance, more memory and H.264 decode capabilities.



Read more on ASUS' Tinker Board.
 
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NeverBackDown said:
Or it costs barely more because it's faster...
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I'm sorry, barely more?

It's 32 to 61% more!!!

Defeats the entire purpose of an rPi in the first place...
This was not a required product they are just trying to get in on rPi's already well-established market.

If rPi iterate to this kind of spec in the next 12-24 months, I bet they don't hike up the price like that.

I don't think they will since.. you don't need GB ethernet, 192K/24bit or swappable antennas for rPi projects, seems daft.

also the rPi 3 ran pretty warm... It'l be interesting to see where this falls in terms of thermal output...
 
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MadShadow said:
Well if it really is twice as fast, then maybe the price is justified. People will probably find different uses for this than the Pi that require a little more power.
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It isn't twice as fast lol. It's clocked a little bit higher and has more RAM.

It's got Asus tax on it. £55 for this or £31 for a Pi 3. I know what I would buy.

SuB said:
I'm sorry, barely more?

It's 32 to 61% more!!!

Defeats the entire purpose of an rPi in the first place...
This was not a required product they are just trying to get in on rPi's already well-established market.

If rPi iterate to this kind of spec in the next 12-24 months, I bet they don't hike up the price like that.

I don't think they will since.. you don't need GB ethernet, 192K/24bit or swappable antennas for rPi projects, seems daft.

also the rPi 3 ran pretty warm... It'l be interesting to see where this falls in terms of thermal output...
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All of that and more.

I think if I ever get a Pi, and I will one day to save on leccy (I don't do much with my rig any more for most of the day) then I would water cool it just for the giggles. Get a 92mm rad on that sucker :D
 
MadShadow said:
Well from the spec comparison it does appear to be.
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You mean the advertising? of course. What they mean is in a specific benchmark it scores almost double.

The problem of course is that this will need software, same as anything else. The Pi 3 can do plenty of jobs and is more than fast enough for those tasks. So you would need an actual reason to use that speed and power. It's the same with PCs. You can browse the web, watch Youtube, do your emails etc on a £30 CPU. Spending £1000 doesn't really do any of that any quicker.

If we start to see stuff like Picade and so on converted to this and if it helps? then sure, I could see the extra outlay. Fact is most people use this for Android or hobby coding, and they wouldn't need the extra speed etc.

Asus are just trying their hand in another market. That's all. I doubt they will gain a foot hold though tbh.

Phones and so on are becoming outrageously powerful but they suffer the same problems as a PC. IE - some one needs to code for it. Otherwise it's just a slab of useless electronics. I thought years ago when I first played that speed boat game on Android (forget the name now but it looked lovely) that phones and so on would dominate the world within a few years. That was oo, about seven years ago and Android gaming has largely become stagnant. IE - there aren't any Android games that are big news and none of the big titles are coming to Android etc.

That game took advantage of Tegra too, which my tablet supported. Look where that ended up.
 
SuB said:
The only thing that's 'twice' is the ram amount, nothing about speed.
The geekscore thing is 1.85x more, that's not twice either.
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Yes, ok its not exactly twice, but the increase in price is roughly equivalent to the increase in performance (according to that benchmark).
 
Asus are clearly aiming at the TV/Movie market with those specs. Where audio fidelity and 4k decoding put it above the rPi....... Plus the deliberate mention of supporting Kodi
 
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