On 28 January 2013 10:16, Guillaume Gardet wrote:

Hi guys,

What do you think about quad core cortex-A9 1GHz vs dual core cortex-A15 1.7 GHz?

I saw 2 boards : * Freescale IMX6 SABRE-LITE : quad cortex-A9 1GHz - 1 GB DDR3 * ARMBRIX-5250-A : dual cortex A15 1.7 GHz - 2 GB DDR3

I guess dual cortex-A15 is better compared to quad cortex-A9? (For desktop use).

Any experience using this kind of boards?

If I was to recommend either of these boards it would be for the ARMBRIX. It is essentially a lower cost Arndale board, and as it is A15 it supports virtualisation and is much more capable for development purposes. It should also have better upstream support than the IMX6. Unfortunately Freescale is focussing more on the IVI segment than general compute/server/mobile space so I'm not 100% sure on how well their upstream support is/will be. The ARMBRIX will also enable people to leverage OpenCL/GPGPU compute should they want it. So, go for the ARMBRIX if you can ;) -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org

Am 28.01.2013 um 11:16 schrieb Guillaume Gardet :

Hi guys,

What do you think about quad core cortex-A9 1GHz vs dual core cortex-A15 1.7 GHz?

I saw 2 boards : * Freescale IMX6 SABRE-LITE : quad cortex-A9 1GHz - 1 GB DDR3 * ARMBRIX-5250-A : dual cortex A15 1.7 GHz - 2 GB DDR3

I guess dual cortex-A15 is better compared to quad cortex-A9? (For desktop use).

Any experience using this kind of boards?

Our A15 1.4 Ghz dual-core system builds about 2x as fast as a panda board. It also works with KVM. So between those 2, I would _definitely_ choose the Armbrix :). Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org