On: Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board

[Dylan16807]

A 5700HQ is perfectly fine. That's a 14nm non-Atom part. Compared to a bleeding edge 9980HK, each core is only 25% slower. And you don't need more than four cores here.

More relevantly, a 5700HQ is five to six times as fast as this Atom.

[filleduchaos → Dylan16807]

People aren't exactly buying these boards (and boards like it, such as the Raspberry Pi) to fold proteins or something.

[Dylan16807 → filleduchaos]

Oh, sure. My point's just that a 3-4 year old design isn't a big deal, and if you're concerned about performance it's absolutely not the age to worry about.

[rbanffy → filleduchaos]

You'd want to do that on a GPU anyway.