2011-10-03, 11:55
McGeagh Wrote:I have played with the Raspberry Pi, and it is frustratingly slow (not surprising based on spec) running ubuntu/lxde
I think it would be on par of beagleboard, so dont expect high framerate without a lot of optimisations. This is all guesswork as I have not worked on getting xbmc on it yet.
The only good thing is the cost, so cheap, anyone and everyone should pick one up, if only just to play around with it!
According to ebenupton (pi employee) the GPU of Raspberry Pi is about 3 times the speed of an OMAP 4430 in common shader-heavy benchmarks. The GPU/DSP is cable of 1080p 30 fps full HD H.264 Video Encode/Decode.
The BCM2835 was designed to have a much better GPU than its competitor's product. I believe someone in the forum is already working on it. Will wait things to unfold in the next month or so.