According to PineA64's marketing video the A64's idle consumption is higher compared to the aforementioned SoCs while the temperature after 30 minutes gaming is just a few degrees above 30Â☌ (measured in an usual office with Miss Marketing sitting nearby the board and not a climate chamber). The other Allwinner SoCs I'm familiar with idle at 16Â☌ (A20), 19Â☌ (H3) or 22Â☌ (A83T) above ambient temperature when driven with sane dvfs settings.
REMIX OS LAPTOP ALLWINNER A64 64 BIT
But in the long run A64/H64/R18 (and other upcoming members of the 64 bit sun50i family) might be the SoCs receiving the best Linux support due to the strong linux-sunxi community.īTW: I'm still wondering how it's possible that thermal and consumption behaviour of the A64 used on the PineA64 can be that contradictory. Regarding the '64 bit' hype: I already ordered a ' Geekbox' and as soon as the ODROID-C2 can be ordered here I will get that device too. But this SoC is just '32 bit' so definitely a no-go for the excited kickstarter crowd And an 'Orange Pi One' is announced for less than $10 and to be available soon. You get boards with H3 currently for the same price as the Pine. Since this SoC is older (read as 'longer available') and the community got all this stuff working in the meantime and mainlining efforts look also good (not to be expected to happen with the A64 anytime soon). In case you're interested in more available I/O bandwidth (or working HW accelerated video decoding in Linux and also working 2D/3D GPU acceleration in Linux) then choosing Allwinner's H3 might be the better choice. You won't benefit from it as an end user at all with the A64 due to limited amount of accessible physical memory and the relatively bad performance the A64 shows (look at Remix Mini reviews - A64 is maybe the slowest Cortex-A53 implementation available combined with one of the slowest GPUs - the dual core Mali400MP2 from 2008) In reality the '64 bit' the PineA64 is advertised with is just. or you're a developer interested in Aarch64). It might be interesting if you're interested in A64 or Aarch64 in general (then you're either clueless and think '64 bit' is better/faster/higher/cooler because it's twice as 'much' as '32 bit' without having any clue what's going on. BUT if you have a use for a headless linux box it is a bonanza!