Board comparison
There are a number of low-cost single-board GNU/Linux computers on the market these days, so let's take a look at how the BeagleBone Black stacks up against a couple of its most popular competitors.
|
BeagleBone Black |
Intel Edison |
Raspberry Pi 2 B | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
CPU |
1 GHz single-core ARM Cortex-A8 |
500 MHz dual-core Intel Atom |
900 MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 |
|
Flash |
4 GB eMMC, expandable with uSD |
4 GB eMMC |
uSD card |
|
RAM |
512 MB |
1 GB |
1 GB |
|
Video |
microHDMI |
N/A |
HDMI, Composite |
|
Network |
10/100 Mbit Ethernet |
Dual-band a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 |
10/100 Mbit Ethernet |
|
GPIO pins |
65 |
20 |
40 |
|
ADC channels |
7 |
6 |
N/A |
|
PWM channels |
8 |
4 |
2 |
|
UARTs |
4 |
1 |
1 |
|
SPI ports |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
I2C ports |
2 |
1 |
2 |
|
Coprocessor |
2x 200 MHz 32-bit PRU microcontrollers ... |
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