Hi all.
Armbian will now also support the Raspberry Pi4.
In this video I tell what Armbian is, why you would need it for RPi4, and I take a look at Armbian Jammy(Ubuntu 22.04).
Here is the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0IWKRiiYVU
Here some of my gathered info.
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Raspberry Pi 4 cooled with big heatsink on SoC and fan on-top
Board | SBC-Bench | Distro | Clockspeeds | 7z all cores | 7z small core | 7z big core | CPU-Miner | NicoD-Blender | Max temp | C copy backwards
NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xnJ Armbian Hirsute xfce4 5.13.12 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7760 1267 1857 10.05 14m41s 78C *** 1782.9 MB/s
NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xv3 Armbian Hirsute xfce4 5.13.12 1.5Ghz/2Ghz 8288 1348 2070 10.95 13m21s *** 1806.7 MB/s
NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xs3 Armbian Hirsute cinnamon 5.13.12 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7766 1267 1851 10 14m33s 78C 1742.6 MB/s
NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xt0 Armbian Hirsute budgie 5.13.12 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7941 1272 1863 10.05 14m24s/14m18s 78C 1738.3 MB/s
NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xtR Armbian Buster xfce4 4.4.213 1.5Ghz/2Ghz 8383 1359 1982 10.8 14m17s 1377.3 MB/s
NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xuf Armbian Buster xfce4 4.4.213 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7879 1278 1807 10 15m20s 1392.3 MB/s
NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xux Armbian Focal xfce4 5.10.60 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 8028 1286 1859 10.27 13m29s *** 1765.3 MB/s
NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3xuL Armbian Focal xfce4 5.10.60 1.5Ghz/2Ghz 8427 1351 2076 11.2 12m53s *** 1759.9 MB/s
NanoPi M4 2GB http://ix.io/3EDB Ubuntu Xenial armhf 4.4 xfce4 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz 7069 1140 1695 1387.1 MB/s
Board | SBC-Bench | Distro | Clockspeeds | 7z all cores | 7z small core | 7z big core | CPU-Miner | NicoD-Blender | Max temp
Odroid C4/HC4 http://ix.io/2LaP Ubuntu Mate 4.9 1.91Ghz 7000 1769 7.2 kH/s 2087.5 MB/s
Odroid C4/HC4 http://ix.io/3F6z Armbian Buster 5.9 2.10Ghz 7971 2030 7.9 23m02s 2020.0 MB/s
Khadas VIM3 Armbian Hirsute cinnamon 5.13.12 12m55s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3F6o Armbian Jammy 5.13 2Ghz 8047 2070 Didn't work Blender doens't work 2054.3 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3F6K Armbian Jammy 5.13 1.5Ghz 6239 1572 2556.8 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 Armbian Hirsute edge xfce4 5.11 1.5Ghz 5832 1534 18m11s 60C
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3Euw Armbian Hirsute edge xfce4 5.11 2Ghz 7747 2037 9.8 14m26s 68C 2382.2 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3FbW Armbian Hirsute 5.11 OC GPU+CPU 2.1Ghz 8168 2147 Blender crash 2445.0 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EU7 Armbian Impish edge headless 5.13 1.5Ghz 6251 1584 15m39s 2618.0 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3Ewi Armbian Impish edge headless 5.13 2Ghz 8171 2093 12m41s 2713.7 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EPQ Armbian Bullseye edge headless 5.13 1.5Ghz 6328 1594 7.3 Blender doesn't work 2680.5 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EK9 Armbian Bullseye edge headless 5.13 2Ghz 8242 2096 9.7 Blender doesn't work 2505.4 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3ECd Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 32-bit 1.5Ghz 7577 1933 21m09s 2511.7 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3ECt Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 32-bit 2Ghz 9746 2533 17m05s 2263.0 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EIe Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 64-bit 1.5Ghz 6174 1567 7.2 17m01s 2463.5 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EJs Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 64-bit 2Ghz 8026 2053 9.65 Blender unstable at 2Ghz 2326.1 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EGZ Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) 5.13 arm64 1.5Ghz 6160 1563 16m50s 2421.2 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 http://ix.io/3EHA Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) 5.13 arm64 2Ghz 7965 2038 Didn't work Blender unstable at 2Ghz 2501.9 MB/s
Odroid N2+ http://ix.io/3EwQ Armbian Impish xfce4 5.14 2Ghz/2.4Ghz 11714 1765 2517 8m51s 2053.0 MB/s
Raspberry Pi4 SD->USB3 with SandDisk Extreme 89.7 MB/s read
SD with on-board sd-card reader Sandisk Extreme 45.4 MB/s read (rather slow compared to 70MB/s for M4)
RPi4 fastest memory, then N2+, then M4(lpddr3)
Armbian Impish 2.93.5
Raspberry Pi OS Bulsseye 32-bit/64-bit blender 2.83.5
Ubuntu 21.10 Blender 2.93.3
Armbian Jammy Blender goesn't work / bug
*** Ubuntu 21.10 unstable when installing ubuntu-mate-desktop, Unity very slow
Armbian on RPi4 pro's
+ Having the same platform for RPi and other Armbian supported boards
+ Reliability/ stable
+ ARM64 vs armhf of RaspberryPiOS/Ubuntu unstable at high clocks and a lot of bugs and hangs
+ Ubuntu and Debian images and all their versions
+ Great for server tasks
+ Customizable
+ You can build your own RPi4 images with whatever modules you need
Armbian on RPi4 con's
- Not great for desktop use (yet)
- No VPU drivers, video playback firefox ok up to 720p
- Audio glitchy, no audio on some images like Jammy
*** For audio install pavucontrol
*** On-board wifi and dongles don't work with the Armbian Impish and Bullseye images. Dongles work on Hirsute. I guess kernel issue 5.13 -> 5.11
*** Armbian Bullseye 5.13 USB not always working
Install desktops
sudo apt install xfce4 (ubuntu-mate-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop, ...)
sudo apt install lightdm
sudo apt install lightdm-gtk-greeter
sudo apt install pavucontrol
sudo apt install xinit
Power draw at 5.3V headless
1.5Ghz with fan maxed out 0.95A
2Ghz with fan maxed out 1.10A
To do
- M4 Impish
- Gather the info I've got from other boards and my pc's
Greetings,
NicoD
