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Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?

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ThrowawayR2 ◴[04 Jul 25 13:19 UTC] No.44464307[source]▶
I'm kind of curious as to why Gflops is the chosen basis for asserting performance superiority? Most user workloads exercise integer and I/O performance much more heavily. Linpack HPL evaluates CPU (not GPU) floating point performance IIRC so it's not a representative workload.
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1. geerlingguy ◴[04 Jul 25 14:43 UTC] No.44465005[source]▶
I typically run a suite of workloads (see https://sbc-reviews.jeffgeerling.com), but I like HPL as it's been a consistent relative performance metric for decades, especially for efficiency utilizing all available memory.

There's always danger to focusing on one metric or benchmark too much, but I also enjoy comparing each system or cluster I build to the historic 'top500' list, to see what decade we're in for small clusters of mini computers.