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The command I have used (sysbench v0.4.12-1.2): sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=1 --max-time=60 run For Raspberry Pi 3 model B+ the results are: (4 cores, 4 threads CPU) - 1 thread - 1619 events in 60 seconds, which gives 26.98 events per second (4 cores, 4 threads CPU) - 4 threads - 6457 events in 60 seconds, which gives 107.62 events per second

@tkaiser I don't understand your negativity. Banana Pi's are bad, sysbench is bad... The whole world is bad, isn't it? I'm sorry but I won't be arguing with you.

I've run some sysbench (v0.4.12) tests. More will come later as I will get Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and Orange Pi RK3399. Banana Pi = ARMv71 A20 @ 960 MHz (not sure about current clock, not overclocked) Banana Pi Armbian (2 cores, 2 threads) - 1 thread - 1057 events in 60 seconds, which gives 17.62 events per second Banana Pi Armbian (2 cores, 2 threads) - 2 threads - 2003 events in 60 seconds, which gives 33.38 events per second i7-8700K @ 4.7 GHz VM with Mint 18.3 x64 in VirtualBox on Windows 10 (4 cores, 4 threads) - 1 thread - 10000 events in 4 seconds, which gives 2500 events per second i7-8700K @ 4.7 GHz Mint 18.3 x64 stand-alone (6 cores, 12 threads) - 12 threads - 10000 events in 1.47 second, which gives 6802 events per second For the above and only CPU - i7-8700K is from 75 to 386 times faster than Banana Pi CPU.

@tkaiser SD card in this case will be the whole OS. I need it to be fast. I have pendrive capable 80 MB/s write (surely USB 3.0) and it does not work even at 30 MB/s but only about 20 MB/s, which is not acceptable. For external drive like SATA it would need additional power source and much more money investment into the drive itself which is also not acceptable. I'll take a look at the boards you've proposed. Thanks once again.

@tkaiser Next one after RPi will be Orange Pi RK3399 or better. @chwe That was the best available in Europe. Www traffic means web server. Mostly. But not only. 1GB RAM for it will surely be enough. More RAM I wanted to do some other stuff on this board, with few apps processing at the same time. As previous posts there is no sensible board that supports fast SD cards, so at this point this makes no difference. If I am asking for powerful board I mean: good CPU = more cores, faster clock much RAM = 1GB or more, best would be 2-4 GB Ethernet at 1Gbps fresh, maintained OS with support I said about sensible price, so $400 is too much

@tkaiser thank you. It would take long time to receive item from aliexpress. Well, I will have to stay with the ordered item. Which Orange Pi's are the most powerful?

@vlad59 @richardk Well, these are too expensive and the main thing is CPU, so I'll stay with my selection. Also such a great hardware is not needed. I would go for Orange Pi as it is much better, but I wasn't able to find any to buy.

Yes, much negative info about Banana Pi's. Is it a marketing move? I've selected and ordered Raspberry Pi 3 model B+. It should be not much better, but will be enough for some time.

@tkaiser thank you very much. That helped me a lot. After some small research I can see that in Europe there are not many boards available to buy. Or they are not compatible. The last selection I will make from these: https://cenowarka.pl/?cmp=1362513&cmp=1557200&cmp=1557163 I see lack of USB 3.0 (not a must), M3 seems to be old but has 8 cores and I am not sure if it will accept 64GB SD card? I am also not sure about A64 - I understand that this is 64 bit - are there Armbian compilation for 64-bit CPU? Other OS? And M3 lacks some onboard stuff which have the other two.

Thanks for your responses. @tkaiser Mostly I am interested in CPU performance and 2GB of RAM is enough for me, but could be more. But still I want this board to be ARM capable. GPU and ports does not matter that much. It should be board for www traffic, an investment for few next years. Maybe some new boards are coming to the market?

Hello All! I am considering to change my Banana Pi to most powerful board (but with sense of cost), so I have question: what is currently mass produced board that is best in CPU performance and also supports Armbian? Other question about SD port: does these powerful boards support fastest SD cards which have R/W capability at 200MB/s? Which board supports these cards? Thank you

I have simple Banana Pi. I have Armbian on it installed on Feb this year. I can see in Changelog that there were no kernel updates for this (A20) board. Will there be any kernel updates? And when?

For anybody looking for simple solution to run remote desktop on Armbian (Banana Pi): apt update apt upgrade apt install lxde tightvncserver xorg xorgxrdp Then you can connect from (for example) Windows via mstsc (Remote Desktop) to your Pi.

So I can see, that no one is responding to the badly made upgrade of boot process and kernel upgrade. Not nice. Each person which has upgraded their system from old-boot to new-boot will have these problems. The only resolution of this problem is to reinstall the system from zero to new version of Armbian. Not nice.

Thank you, but no time or money for that as long as I could use HDMI.

For serial console I don't have any RS232 computer. Tried to attach HDMI but didn't manage to set up boot options for that. From the box it does not send signal to HDMI monitor. What I have observed is that last kernel update was a failure, and the previous boot files were removed anyway (despite wrong compilation of kernel). I've just put new version of armbian and configure it as old system was. Still would like to try HDMI output and attach a USB keyboard, only for console access. I can still go to previous system as I have image of the SD card backed up.

Hello! I have problems with Banana Pi and for today - updated all packages, and I can't connect via SSH nor FTP to my Pi. I have not changed anything, but there is automatic script which dist-upgrades the whole system, it is running once a day. Till 12.34pm CET everything was working fine - from logs, even I think till past 4pm I have connected via SSH to Pi, but then after kernel upgrade (seen note after logon) and reboot I can't access Pi in any way. I've tried to see logs: connect SD card to laptop with Linux to check if there is any problem, but didn't found nothing special. I've also tried to attach HDMI monitor but no signal. Seems that last upgrade has messed up the whole thing. Not working are: SSH, FTP, apache2. Red LED is on, green for SD card access is not blinking, LED for network is blinking from time to time. But router to which the Pi is attached does not see the Pi, LED on router is on, but from router menu it has no IP. Seems that uImage file is missing, but after changing the files in /boot folder, Pi behaves the same. Any help?