Rachel Gibbs compares the performance of the Raspberry Pi and the BeagleBone Black.
Quite a few Single Board Computers have made it to market and are gaining popularity with makers everywhere. Two of the biggest players in this space are the Raspberry Pi and the Beaglebone Black. Both advertise their various advantages, with the Raspberry Pi focusing on ease and educational use and the Beaglebone offering more centralized flexibility at the price of a higher learning curve. That being said, both SBCs are amazing pieces of hardware!
I thought that it might be a neat experiment to do a basic comparison of the Raspberry Pi versus the Beaglebone Black by looking at CPU performance while running a simple script. You may have seen my previous post on monitoring the computer performance – I simply ran this script for a little bit before starting my “stress test” script so that I could see average CPU usage before, during, and after the stress test.
Each Tuesday is BeagleBone Black Day here Adafruit! What is the BeagleBone? The BeagleBones are a line of affordable single-board Linux computers (SBCs) created by Texas Instruments. New to the Bone? Grab one of our Adafruit BeagleBone Black Starter Packs and check out our extensive resources available on the Adafruit Learning System including a guide to setting up the Adafruit BeagleBone IO Python Library. We have a number of Bone accessories including add-on shields (called “capes”) and USB devices to help you do even more with your SBC. Need a nice display to go along with your Bone? Check out our fine selection of HDMI displays, we’ve tested all of them with the Beagle Bone Black!