Raspberry Pi

[SupremeSpod]

How many GFlops that toy chip is doing?

Hope it's more than 3.14...

How powerful is it?

The GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode.

The GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24 GFLOPs of general purpose compute and features a bunch of texture filtering and DMA infrastructure.

That is, graphics capabilities are roughly equivalent to Xbox 1 level of performance.

Overall real world performance is something like a 300MHz Pentium 2, only with much, much swankier graphics.

Not bad for £25

[AtW]

GPUs are not general purpose compute units yet, but I give you that this toy is more powerful than Z80A CPU...

[SupremeSpod]

What some kids are doing with the Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi | An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!

The above is the home page which changes regularly. Currently there are links and descriptions to what kids are using their(Parents ) Raspberry Pi's for. More power to their collective elbow I say.

Btw, I have another Pi arriving Week commencing ~2nd July anybody want it? Was going to put it on EBay (and speculate) but if you're interested you can have it for what I paid (£30 + whatever it costs to get it to you) - If you're lucky I'll throw in an SD with Debian on it for you.

Please PM if interested.

[Sysman]

GPUs are not general purpose compute units yet, but I give you that this toy is more powerful than Z80A CPU...

First hit on search for "gpu software"

[SupremeSpod]

First hit on search for "gpu software"

Not really a fair post that, for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, AtW thinks he's right and hitting the little fat f*cker repeatedly in the face with a spade with the facts of the matter engraved on the blade will not change his mind.

Secondly, it's going to be a bloody long time before Broadcom release enough information on the graphics cores in the Raspberry Pi before either CUDA or OPENCL etc are supported/available.

[Durbs]

Mine has just arrived, didn't know they were that tiny!

Anyone worked out anything exciting to do with it? I was planning on sticking an HD video on it, oohing and aahing for 5 mins then sticking it away in a drawer somewhere to be rediscovered when we next move house - does that sound about right?

Edited - going to get my eldest to build a cool lego case for it too.

[AtW]

Secondly, it's going to be a bloody long time before Broadcom release enough information on the graphics cores in the Raspberry Pi before either CUDA or OPENCL etc are supported/available.

I am not keen on CUDA/OpenCL - new Intel Phi stuff looks nice and it's well understood x86 code.

If the pricing that I've heard it's true it will sell as hot cakes..

[doodab]

If the pricing that I've heard it's true it will sell as hot cakes..

What have you heard?

[AtW]

What have you heard?

$1500-2500 range apparently ...

If that's true then this price is equivalent to price of one good Xeon.

[SunnyInHades]

Anyone worked out anything exciting to do with it? .

Showed the specs of the Pi to head of embedded systems at last gig. Turns out it was twice
as powerful as certain embedded controller hardware made/sold by client for $$$$