Raspberry Pi 5 vs N100 PC (featuring Ubuntu 23.10)

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• an N100 mini PC can regularly be bought with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD included for around $150 USD or less, the pi 5 is nowhere near a comparison – especially for GPU heavier applications like games and emulation.

• I wonder how long the video export test takes on Chris' video rig. Anybody know?

• Wondering what a oc raspberrypi5 will do

• i see arm systems are more immune to Malware than the x86 architecture but Macs also are getting malware as of now too

• I have a Nextcloud home server and I chose a Ninkear ZX01 Plus (148USD) over a Pi5 8GB (135USD board only) pricing is in Asia.

  The ZX01 has N100, 12GB DDR5 4800, 128GB (SATA can be upgraded to NVME 2 lanes), a case, active cooling fan, type C power brick, and full-sized HDMI.

• Nice comparison. Thank you!

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• Hi Chris, thank you for the RPi5 vs N100. Really interesting results showing both have their pro's and con's. Depending of the usage, they are both interesting.

• There are even faster N100 boards with DDR5 socket instead of DDR4, increasing memory bandwidth by 2x. I have a Topton passive cooled mini PC which is surprisingly swift for 190 USD, including power supply and case. I don't get the point of RPi5 anymore because of the high price of at least 80 USD + cost of case, power supply etc. and a lot lower compatibility and performance.

• You should check out the UP7000 for an N100 with the same footprint as the Pi

• Woow 108 bogomips vs 1600 bogomips 😅

  Next time ı wouldn't count bios post check duration when comparing with something with a kB sized firmware 😂

• Can I run adobe photoshop or indesign?

• in versions of GIMP from 2022 and onward, the filter computation is evenly distributed across the CPU and any compatible GPUs. the N100's UHD 620 graphics are compatible here, while the V3D7 graphics is not. something worthy of note!

• 4:16 : The Pi is more energy efficient : No … efficiency is the ratio between Flops/Power Draw (Flops or whatever reference to be taken) and i'm pretty sure the Pi is worse then the N100, making the Pi less efficient.
  Draw less at Idle .. not really, a small N100, that i have, draw something like 6W, same as the Pie but more at full load, near 40W but then .. the FLOPS are far higher.
  PI is only good if you need the GPIO and even then … it's not amazing, it's the end of the pi.

• Add my thanks for producing this comparison. It was very well done. I too was surprised by how close the Pi 5 was to N100. Connectivity remains a weak point for the Pi family and this is only the second Pi that has a proper storage interface. (CM4 could support a PCIe 1.0 x1 NVME SSD.) I can see SATA cables in your build and and the Pi 5 can support either NVME or SATA via PCIe but not both at the same time. To date I have not seen any adapters for the Pi 5 PCIe connector that support either SATA or a standard NVME slot, though I expect that will come.

• It looks like you have another drive connected to the intel system, which could account for slower boot and some of the higher power draw as well

• There's a steady stream of refurb Lenovo Thinkpads and ultra-compact computers which would beat both of these at a lower price.

• Hi Chris. The gap in performance was closer than I expected. Just shows how good a RPi5 really is. The rendering test made me hit nostalgia mode and remembered the phase in the early 90s when fractal art hit the home PC and how long those took to render. Have fun!

• Nice info, thanks 🙂

• I am using RPi4 8Gb, it can be good only for text editing, for programming in Python …. but anything bigger no, no, no, never !!!! When i open web browser, after few opened bookmarks it's slowing down 😢😢 and always use a cooling fan it is very hot 😢😢
  In my opinion, RPi is a toy for kids
  Any mini computer is more worth to work on it

• Personally I find Used office mini PCs to be the best value for small compute needs with the bonus of keeping out the landfill. The Lenovo ThinkCentre m910q is my current go to for this kinda thing, uses a bit more power than a N100 but it's a bit faster and you get a complete system usually with Power supply, drive, and windows pro license for $90-120 with a i5-7500.

• My pi5b 8GB took 9 seconds to render lava, at stock clocks. But still, the N100 is 2.5 times faster. I think a decent desktop CPU, like the new coming AMD R7 8700G AM5 will also be 2.5 times faster than N100.

• Random thought have u ever considered doing a raspberry pie sub zero for the channel?
  Yes I'm aware it's silly and overkill😅

• Honestly, that's definitely not the same class device, price wise it ain't far apart, but Raspberry Pi is probably around 30x smaller, and draws 50% of N100's power, I'd say it's a no brainer for smn on a very strict budget and limited or expensive electricity or somebody who needs it for a mini server / project template (CCTV system, smart home, kitchen cooking assistant tablet etc )

• N100 vs Orange Pi 5 😊

• I'm impressed with how well the Pi 5 did to keep up!

• lol the pi5 has a faster boot time than the n100 although the pci lines are lesser…weird

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