For the sbc-bench numbers, do they give us any sort of ballpark performance estimate of how this SBC compares to RPi4, a Jetson Xavier NX, etc?
Thanks
Introduce ROCK 5B - ARM Desktop level SBC
Of course there’s a results list.
But you need to keep in mind that synthetic benchmarks are something different than real-world tasks and that ‘use case’ always matters more than some numbers or graphs that could be compared without using a brain. If the benchmark numbers do not represent your use case then they’re worthless for you.
And since sbc-bench focuses on ‘server workloads in general’ (the 7-zip-MIPS score) I highly doubt these numbers are that useful for average Rock 5B buyers.
Since with this focus on integer and memory performance all the other stuff that makes up RK3588 is not even remotely considered:
- GPU (2D/3D acceleration)
- VPU (accelerated video encoding/decoding)
- NPU
- in general the media capabilities like display and camera support, ‘picture in picture’ and so on (maybe only ever working in Android and not Linux)
- IO: RK3588 has serious IO capabilities especially compared to toys like an RPi 4
Raspberry Pi V 4xC A72 4xc A52 + G78 MP8 with RISCV ISA with LPDDR4x 4266MHz from 5 to 10v overclockable is perfect for people. 
2x faster than previous one that can run every OS from Ubuntu to Manjaro, Linux mint up to custom Raspbian OS (mix between RaspOS and Twister funny and original than others).
What I want is, the team should have to add PCI-E 3.0 for VGA eGPU that works in parallel with iGPU of the processor in three cuts:1 G78
MP14 MP20 and the most powerful MP24 
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They will be millionaires 
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We happy because save energy
thanks for the link, it seems like even 3A is almost as fast as Pi 4B, so perhaps it is time for me to sell it (just don’t wanna waste it) and consider a 3A as replacement, and perhaps overclock it a bit to match Pi 4B;
and 5B is like 3x of Pi 4B… on that “server workload in general”. I think it is still useful, as it should tell the integer ALU performance and likely branching performance as well. for GPU, VPU, NPU and else, they depend on the maturity of drivers, so I won’t be considering them for the time being.
Do you have a recipe for this with any recent Rockchip SoC like RK3568 or RK3588?
We’re currently struggling to understand what determines clockspeeds since all those devices show ‘random’ behaviour, see here and there.
The mechanism at work seems to be called Process-Voltage-Temperature Monitor (PVTM).
Thanks. I’m probably not an average Arm SBC user.
I’m a developer for Altair Accelerator, and we have some limited support in our product for Armv8. Whatever customers are using that are probably doing so on Arm server systems, maybe even proprietary ones that aren’t available to the generic public.
But because we do support the platform, I’m interested in tinkering at home on an Arm system, but more as a C/C++/Python development box rather than a Desktop, NAS, or a game emulation platform. Sure, I have access to some Arm hosts in the cloud, but they’re slow and inconvenient for me to use, and I don’t want to ask for $$ to spin up an AWS instance just so that I can play. The Honeycomb LX2, NVidia Jetson SBC, or rk3588 are probably closest to what I’m looking for, but there’s a lot in the NVidia hardware that I probably wouldn’t ever make use of. For me, it would be a host I put on my LAN and ssh into.
Thanks for the numbers.
Presume it just tweaks the timings so everything is optimum, dunno PVTM is new to me but been wondering if the OPP table does anything or really its like the amlogic where everything seems hardcoded in the MCU blob.
Have you tried DTC and editing the OPP table either under or overclock and see if its totally ignored?
Preferably OC to see if it does?
Hi @Mecca, read this yesterday and gained even more appreciation for the work that goes into finalizing a SBC for release:
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Hi @NGBRO, this is what I did with my R0. Thinking I’ll do something similar with the 5B, likely adding an inlet and outlet for the fan until something I like becomes available to purchase or 3D print 
Check sbc-bench output in detail. That’s two different phenomenons:
- the cpufreq driver is hiding certain cpufreq OPP (on @willy’s board also the top ones)
- real clockspeeds differ from cpufreq OPP in different directions
As an example ‘my’ board:
Checking cpufreq OPP for cpu0-cpu3 (Cortex-A55):
Cpufreq OPP: 1800 Measured: 1828 (1828.663/1828.622/1828.125) (+1.6%)
Cpufreq OPP: 1608 Measured: 1645 (1645.519/1645.452/1644.982) (+2.3%)
Cpufreq OPP: 1416 Measured: 1422 (1422.748/1422.654/1422.544)
Cpufreq OPP: 1200 Measured: 1230 (1231.014/1230.882/1230.354) (+2.5%)
Cpufreq OPP: 1008 Measured: 1062 (1062.635/1062.504/1061.903) (+5.4%)
Cpufreq OPP: 816 Measured: 845 (845.559/845.516/844.695) (+3.6%)
Cpufreq OPP: 600 Measured: 587 (590.172/589.922/583.196) (-2.2%)
Cpufreq OPP: 408 Measured: 391 (391.348/391.180/390.991) (-4.2%)
Checking cpufreq OPP for cpu4-cpu5 (Cortex-A76):
Cpufreq OPP: 2400 Measured: 2348 (2348.432/2348.405/2348.268) (-2.2%)
Cpufreq OPP: 2208 Measured: 2185 (2185.642/2185.619/2185.571)
Cpufreq OPP: 2016 Measured: 2016 (2017.078/2016.977/2016.750)
Cpufreq OPP: 1800 Measured: 1817 (1817.134/1817.114/1816.991)
Cpufreq OPP: 1608 Measured: 1625 (1625.664/1625.632/1625.255) (+1.1%)
Cpufreq OPP: 1416 Measured: 1437 (1437.125/1437.110/1436.982) (+1.5%)
Cpufreq OPP: 1200 Measured: 1259 (1259.240/1259.132/1258.933) (+4.9%)
Cpufreq OPP: 1008 Measured: 1056 (1056.646/1056.527/1056.387) (+4.8%)
Cpufreq OPP: 816 Measured: 849 (850.073/850.012/849.793) (+4.0%)
Cpufreq OPP: 600 Measured: 592 (592.260/592.234/592.154) (-1.3%)
Cpufreq OPP: 408 Measured: 394 (394.444/394.302/394.288) (-3.4%)
Checking cpufreq OPP for cpu6-cpu7 (Cortex-A76):
Cpufreq OPP: 2400 Measured: 2348 (2348.350/2348.268/2348.159) (-2.2%)
Cpufreq OPP: 2208 Measured: 2185 (2185.548/2185.453/2185.311)
Cpufreq OPP: 2016 Measured: 2015 (2015.390/2015.315/2015.114)
Cpufreq OPP: 1800 Measured: 1813 (1813.888/1813.888/1813.847)
Cpufreq OPP: 1608 Measured: 1620 (1620.361/1620.263/1620.149)
Cpufreq OPP: 1416 Measured: 1429 (1429.315/1429.204/1429.204)
Cpufreq OPP: 1200 Measured: 1246 (1246.176/1246.056/1246.026) (+3.8%)
Cpufreq OPP: 1008 Measured: 1048 (1048.325/1048.240/1048.229) (+4.0%)
Cpufreq OPP: 816 Measured: 842 (842.671/842.611/842.422) (+3.2%)
Cpufreq OPP: 600 Measured: 592 (592.273/592.234/592.161) (-1.3%)
Cpufreq OPP: 408 Measured: 394 (394.366/394.288/394.233) (-3.4%)
The cpufreq driver decides to hide 2256, 2304 and 2352 from the OPP table (which might be a reasonable choice since the 200 MHz step between 2208-2400 is ok) but in @willy’s case cpu4-5 get 2304 MHz as highest OPP and cpu6-7 get 2352 MHz. The driver hides the 2400 OPP regardless what the MCU inside the SoC decides to use as real clockspeeds for each cpufreq OPP.
And you should be aware that Amlogic’s clockspeed cheating stopped with most recent SoCs. The last ones where we observed a hardcoded difference between cpufreq OPP and real clockspeeds was GXL/GXM (S905X and S912 where cpufreq OPP says 1.5 GHz while in reality it’s 1.4 GHz)
For such a use case I would ssh into a locally running Linux VM (having to admit that I’m typing these lines on an ARMv8.5-A laptop)
Allen 8nm is just the minimum resolution of lithographic process on the silicon wafer and how dense the resultant SoC can be (in rough terms).
None of us understand that process as its massively valuable IP, but we don’t need to understand manufacture process just operation of the SoC and as @tkaiser posted we already have some absolutely whopping sized technical references datasheets for the RK3588.
@tkaiser as a test if you OC the OPP does the soc take any notice at all would still be interesting.
The amlogic was not a cheat as likely 10% is likely within tolerance of quoted specs what they where doing is locking the speed with a licensed blob.
The quoted specs was just the standard sales speak as many things are cheats where ever they can legally and presume it was.
The GPU on the S905Y2 seemed to be locked whilst on the a311d clockspeed is locked via a mcu blob.
I guess its the prerogative of the SoC manufacture and wondering even though we can not test GPU does the CPU OC?
I completely accept the things,
I will certainly compared to others have the most recreational and non-critical use of this SOC.
Frankly I’m waiting a RK3588 Pico/nano ITX fonctionnal board with full width heatsink and sell it including postage to me at a low price, and it’s all good !
I do use KVM on my Ubuntu 20 Linux desktop running a Ryzen 9 5950 with 64GB RAM, and I’ve even managed to set up an Arm (aarch64) VM via Qemu as well, but a) It was VERY difficult to get working and b) It feels slow.
It also wouldn’t be my first Arm SBC. I have a RPi 3B+ running Raspbian. It’s a DNS for my local LAN and it drives my old Epson flatbed scanner, which no longer has Windows support.
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There is no ‘8nm process’ since these numbers today are just marketing BS. At least according to TSMC’s vice president of corporate research (TSMC is the foundry having the most advanced process nodes today so maybe he knows a little bit what he’s talking about):
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Yeah, but I was talking about running an arm64 Linux distribution in a VM on one of these cores which is really easy and super fast since both cores and OS support virtualization. But running macOS isn’t everybody’s 1st choice so nevermind 
Oh, on an M1/M2 Mac? Yeah, since I don’t already own one, it would be a really expensive way to go.