Most would say the original Raspberry Pi got the single-board computer craze (SBC) going. Since then, the Raspberry Pi got three major hardware revisions, and the market at large has come up with similar devices in countless flavors, including Orange and Banana. According to Hexus , Asus decided to throw its prodigious engineering muscle into the SBC ring with the cheerfully-named Tinker Board, which one-ups the Raspberry Pi 3 with significant connectivity advantages, double the memory, and higher clock speeds.
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The Tinker board is powered by a Rockchip RK3288 SoC based on an ARM Cortex-A17 design and running at 1.8 GHz. The Tinker’s heart lacks the 64-bit support found in the Pi 3’s Broadcom BCM2837 Cortex-A53 chip, but the performance figures Hexus got a hold of show a 3,925-to-2,092 score advantage in GeekBench. Some of that performance difference might be from the 2GB of dual-channel LPDDR3 memory in the Tinker board, versus the Pi’s 1GB of DDR2 at 450Mhz.
