Benchmarks are alright but as an embedded engineer I first select a performance segment and then actually prioritize the hardware abilities and engineering support from the SoC manufacturer.

Before getting into benchmarks I would actually look which hardware capabilities a specific SoC supports first (eDP, HDMI or LVDS, USB ports, i2c, GPIO pins etc). Then I would check whether the manufacturer actually maintains mainline Linux kernel drivers or keeps an up-to-date downstream kernel. I look at their frequency for updates. For media systems having HW acceleration is crucial. Most ARM vendors do a crappy job of providing good open source drivers for this.

Similarly I go and check their Yocto BSPs. If I don't like their organization, that's going to affect my final decision. If it is a power-sensitive project, then the special modes and extra driver support for various sleeping modes come into play.

(Most of the time Intel just wins with those criteria because ARM ecosystem is a mess of proprietary blobs. However there are manufacturers like NXP and MediaTek who do release passable drivers and when power consumption is important they get selected or if the product is very price-sensitvie)

This website looks alright maybe for hobbyists for pure CPU loads with very well cooled systems. I don't find it very useful without the actual engineering details, adding those would massively benefit the website.

Feature request: if the cells in a row are all identical, either exclude the row, de-emphasize it, or merge the cells so it's visually apparent that they're all the same.

Example: Raspberry Pi 4 vs Raspberry Pi 5 (https://sbc.compare/9-raspberry-pi-4-2gb/14-raspberry-pi-5-4...). Architecture is ARM. But it's repeated for each column, which makes the reader have to look carefully at each cell to see whether it really is different.

This is a pet peeve, particularly when a company's "compare versions" page lists dozens of identical dimensions across the product line, making finding the differences into a dreary where's-Waldo game.

Performance is cool, but if you're already building a giant database of SBC information, I/O, peripherals and features seem like a much more important thing to add.

Just in the Orange Pi lineup, there are so many different models and so little structured information about them, that the best source still seems to be the google sheet that I created in 2017 and has been continously updated by various community members over the years [0]. And that's all one manufacturer!

Things like which type and how many video outs, USB ports, if it has onboard flash, DSI/CSI, pinout compatibility... are so much more important and so much harder to get than performance numbers, which usually boil down to the SoC plus a small margin for thermal and power design of the board.

If this site were open source (and time + knowledge of stack permitting), I'd take a stab at adding a way to include that info as well, maybe even through crowd-sourcing.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14QDXdMR1a1kc0gpRpTzI...

Similar (but without comparisons): https://hackerboards.com/

I noticed Luckfox Pico Mini isn't included there. Runs Linux. Few bucks on AliExpress: https://www.luckfox.com/Luckfox-Pico-Mini-A

This is actually pretty terrible. Apart from the things “okanat” said, the site is a nightmare in terms of UI and extremely buggy. I didn’t realize modern websites could get this bad.

I'm happy to see this exist; I've considered putting together something similar using the data I compile for https://sbc-reviews.jeffgeerling.com/ - but it's surprisingly complex.

One of the hardest things is settling on specific tests, and ensuring tests are run in an extremely standardized environment. I do my best, but a test lab I am not.

It's good to have a quick way to get relative comparisons, even if imperfect.

Love when actually useful sites appear. Fits the same category of sites like the one LTTLabs is working on

None of it really matters until there's a competitor that has software support 1/10th as good as Raspberry Pi.

No searching by PCIe support it seems :'(

(Or I'm too stupid to use it.)

btw: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=mbarm - but also no search by PCIe there

Question. Are the RPi, Orange Pi, etc. suitable for use in professional hardware, or are these considered hobbyist products?

if LattePanda for $178 is on the list might as well throw in the Quieter 4C:

https://www.amazon.com/MeLE-Mini-Quieter-4C-Astrophotography...

very impressive N100 device. i run EndeavourOS with KDE/plasma on mine. i swapped out to a faster and more efficient single sided 4TB nvme.

it's fanless and idles at ~4.5W according to the USB-C cable's lcd power readout.

Clicking on “ARM” only seems to show Raspberry Pi’s and not the other ARM boards listed on the site.

Looks cool but no microcontroller boards yet. I didn't get any results for "RP2350" for example.

Did the up in price on RPis ended up being permanent?

Idle power and sleep power are important for embedded applications.

Nice project!

to the author: thanks for making this. Can you tell us about how long it took you to develop this site, and what technology stack you use for it? How did you make it?