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    lylefilippello reacted to NicoD in Whats is the fastest arm computer?   
    I only now see this post. 
    Indeed as @TRS-80 said my favorite for desktop tasks is the NanoPi M4V2 with Armbian Bionic legacy and @JMCC his media script. Now also possible in Buster.
    For me watching video, mostly Youtube is very important. And I've got a 4k display, so I rather have a higher display resolution than 1080p.
    The RK3399 from the NanoPi M4V2 does 1440p without a problem. And it then plays 1080p video perfect with VPU acceleration. 

    Its I/O is just amazing. 2x fast USB3 controllers for each 2 ports, left and right. (every 1 controller is faster/better than the only 1 controller on N2+)
    Has PCIe GPIO's what fits an NVMe hat/SATA hat, USB3 hat.
    I've got a 256GB NVMe on it. Doing initial boot from eMMC, and full boot from NVMe. I must say that the RockPi4 has a faster NVMe drive(4x PCIe vs 2x PCIe on M4V2), but I like the metal case from the M4V2 a lot more. And not the bandwith is most important using NVMe, but latency. And that's the same.
    Also a big swap file of 8GB on NVMe so I never get out of memory. Works great, but does decrease the lifespan of an NVMe drive. I replace it every year just to be safe and then use the used NVMe as external USB3 device.

    I also have an sd-card with a Armbian mainline focal image for playing games on it. I just need to push that sd-card in and reboot to get to my 2nd image. 

    For a few months google account didn't work on the VPU accelerated Chromium on the RK3399. So then I used Vivaldi browser for watching Youtube. But that could only do 1080p video with 1080p display resolution.
    So I switched my M4V2 with the Odroid N2+ for a while. That one is able to play 1080p video at 1440p display resolution. Tho not perfectly as the RK3399. Some dropped frames, some screen tearing.

    I do like the extra CPU performance of the N2+. But in desktop tasks I rarely need a lot of CPU power. 
    All I do is browsing, answering on this forum and on others, watching youtube, writing textfiles, downloading images and writing them to media, record audio, ...

    All tasks that do not need much CPU. So RK3399 is more than powerful enough. 

    If not for the media script from JMCC I'd take the Odroid N2+ before my M4V2. But having VPU driver is so nice that my N2+ is playing 2nd fidel.
    Future wise the N2+ might become the better one if GPU and VPU drivers are availabe for it. It can do a lot with its CPU alone. 

    Only for video editing and rendering I use my PC. And a few games that don't work on my M4V2. But these days even gaming on it is just awesome.
     
    Good choice. Do know that the RockPi4 is a bit fidly to put together with the NVMe hat, and its heatsink is a little less potent. 
    The NVMe then can go upwards of 1GB/s vs 750MB/s on the M4V2. 
    Greetings.
     
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