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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

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468 points speckx | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cosarara ◴[19 Sep 25 15:17 UTC] No.45302597[source]▶
> Compared to the $8,000 Framework Cluster I benchmarked last month, this cluster is about 4 times faster:

Slower. 4 times slower.

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teleforce ◴[19 Sep 25 15:34 UTC] No.45302782[source]▶
That's definitely a typo because I've to read the sentence 3 times from the article still cannot make a sense until I saw the figure.

TL;DR, just buy one framework desktop and it's better than the Pi AI cluster of the OP in every single performance metrics including cost, performance, efficiency, headache, etc.

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1. geerlingguy ◴[19 Sep 25 15:40 UTC] No.45302863[source]▶
Oops, fixed the typo! Thanks.

And regarding efficiency, in CPU-bound tasks, the Pi cluster is slightly more efficient. (Even A76 cores on a 16nm node still do well there, depending on the code being run).