{"id":3022,"date":"2017-01-23T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/raspberry-pi-rival-asus-launches-tinker-board-faster-with-2x-memory-and-4k-video.html"},"modified":"2017-01-23T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:14:42","slug":"raspberry-pi-rival-asus-launches-tinker-board-faster-with-2x-memory-and-4k-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/raspberry-pi-rival-asus-launches-tinker-board-faster-with-2x-memory-and-4k-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi rival: Asus launches Tinker Board, faster, with 2X memory and 4k video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Asus Tinker Board is reportedly roughly twice as quick as a Raspberry Pi 3 in a Geekbench benchmark. <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Raspberry Pi has a new rival, a some-more absolute though somewhat pricier Asus Tinker Board.<\/p>\n

The Asus Tinker Board has a faster processor and some-more memory than a Raspberry Pi 3, though sells for \u00a355 ($68), extremely some-more than a \u00a333 or $35 Pi 3.<\/p>\n

Asus’ house has a quad-core 1.8GHz Rockchip processor, compared to a quad-core 1.2GHz Broadcom processor in a Raspberry Pi 3. The mechanism also has 2GB of memory, double that of a Pi 3.<\/p>\n

One online benchmark claims a Tinker Board is roughly dual times faster than a Pi 3<\/a> in Geekbench, with Asus’ gift racking adult a measure of 3925 compared to a Pi’s 2092, as good as being faster when reading from and essay to storage.<\/p>\n

While a Pi 3’s processor is formed on a 64-bit architecture, compared to a 32-bit formed pattern in a Tinker Board, a Tinker Board’s ARM Cortex A17-based chipset has been shown to outperform a Pi 3’s ARM Cortex A53-based chipset in certain tests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asus’ gift provides an choice to Pi users while they wait for a opening upgrade, as a Pi’s co-creator Eben Upton has warned it will expected be during slightest 2018 before a new Raspberry Pi house is released<\/a>. He also cautioned opposite awaiting a Pi 3 to get a memory bump<\/a> in a nearby future.<\/p>\n

The Tinker Board also outstrips a Pi’s specs by ancillary 4k video, Gigabit Ethernet and 192kHz\/24-bit audio.<\/p>\n

SEE: Raspberry Pi in 2017: New boards, new OSes and more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Similar to a Pi 3, a Asus house also can hoop 802.11 b\/g\/n Wi-Fi though adds support for swappable antennas. However while a Pi 3 supports Bluetooth 4.1, a Tinker Board offers Bluetooth 4.0. The Tinker Board also packs 4 USB 2.0 ports.<\/p>\n

Much as is probable with a Pi 3, a Tinker Board can be used as a PC deputy or a media center, with Asus’ house ancillary a tradition chronicle of a Linux-based Debian handling complement and a open-source media core program Kodi. However, it won’t run Raspbian, a Raspberry Pi’s official, Debian-based OS. <\/p>\n

Asus is also touting a appurtenance as a house for makers, with a Tinker Board also make-up a 40-pin header with 28 general-purpose submit outlay (GPIO) pins. These GPIO pins concede a house to control a operation of hardware, and in a Pi have authorised a house to be used in modding projects ranging from robots to book scanners<\/a>. Another care for makers is battery drain, and a Tinker Board’s max energy expenditure is 5 watts.<\/p>\n

Today a Pi has a operation of competitors, that replicate a board’s pattern though possibly during a aloft spec or at a reduce price<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, as with other Pi rivals, a Tinker Board won’t suffer a operation of program and village support that has grown adult around a Pi given it launched roughly 5 years ago. Buying a Pi also has a advantage of ancillary a Raspberry Pi Foundation, a gift committed to furthering mechanism scholarship education.<\/p>\n

The Tinker Board is now out of batch though is expected to be accessible from CPC from Jan 30th<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read some-more about a Raspberry Pi<\/h3>\n