We all know single chip computer named Raspberry pi, which is very popular in last few years. There is no doubt about their capability and performance. There are different versions of raspberry pi. Also, there are many boards available in market, like BeagalBone, orange pi etc. All have their own features. But no one can beat much raspberry pi, some board's cost is higher than rpi and some have relatively not good performance than rpi etc. Now, Asus has created new single board computer name 'Tinker Board'.
Tinker board is powered by Quad-core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A17 CPU with 2GB dual channel LPDDR3 RAM, while raspberry pi's latest version 'raspberry pi 3 model b' is powered by 1.2 GHz 64bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU with 1 GB RAM.
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| Tinker Board and Raspberry pi 3 |
Look at both boards, Tinker board is just looks like raspberry pi 3. But tinker board gives more RAM and a faster CPU as compared to the Raspberry Pi 3. Tinker Board has Rockchip RK3288 ARM Cortex-A17 quad-core CPU with ARM Mali-T764 graphics and 2GB RAM. According to ASUS, Tinker Board comes with Debian Linux support and supports Kodi media center.
For supplying power to tinker board, there’s a micro USB port. Main useful connectivity options of tinker board is 802.11b/g/n WiFi,1x 10/100/1000 Ethernet jack, Bluetooth 4.0, HDMI output, 4xUSB 2.0 ports and a 40-pin header (GPIO). Other connectivity ports and options are Micro SD port with UHS-1 support, CSI port for camera connection, HDMI port with 4K resolution support, 3.5 audio jack, DSI port with HD resolution support.
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| Raspberry pi 3 VS Tinker Board |
Also, Asus has released its own OS, which is based upon Debian distro as the RPi OS. they also claims to be working on support for Kodi, Open-SUSE and Ubuntu.
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