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<Kanken> Also it seems like the m.2 slot replaced the wifi/ble chip on that board
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<Kanken> On one hand i like being able to pick between an ssd or wifi module, but on the other i'm going to miss wifi, without emmc you're almost forced to use this slot for an ssd
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<Kanken> And usb wifi isn't great
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<Kanken> We don't get many usb ports
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<Tenkawa> this USB3 wifi unit is actually very nice
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<Tenkawa> Its what I'm using on quite a few machines now
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<Tenkawa> Inexpensive, flexible, and has been very reliable for me.
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<Tonymac32> Yeah but why not keep an SDIO one at least?
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<Kanken> Yeah but thing is, i NEED the usb3 for a single high bandwith device...
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<Kanken> Heck even the usb2 ports may be used to their limit
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<Kanken> I just hope that they release a decent camera for these mipi csi and d-phy ports...
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<Kanken> I'm a bit annoyed at that proprietary mipi connector too ngl
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<Kanken> Making a third party board for these would be pain
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<Kanken> Compared to the humble fpc connector
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<Tonymac32> Has anyone ever released a decent camera for a board? Not trying to throw shade at RPi but even their good camera is "meh"
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<Kanken> I had decent results with the opi 4 camera
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<Tonymac32> Ok, that's cool
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<Kanken> But it's definitely not the best
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<Kanken> Rn what i would really like is a high fps high megapixel count sensor
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<Tonymac32> I honestly keep out of the OPI ecosystem in general, I try not to buy on price alone. The fact they have some cameras is nice though
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<Kanken> The opi 4 cam's sensor is 13mp
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<Kanken> And can in theory do 60fps
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<Kanken> But their driver doesn't enable the required mode
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<Kanken> And i don't know enough about drivers on linux to make my own...
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<Kanken> It's a shame, i know exactly what part of the register map i need to set...
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<Kanken> I'll need to learn more about this and i2c over mipi in general...
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<Kanken> The opi4 sucked at high fps image processing tho
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<Kanken> Kept having tearing issues and weird bugs
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<Kanken> Hoping the opi5 will be better
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<Tenkawa> I avoid video/graphics in general because of my human non-technical human issues
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<Kanken> It may also be an issue inherent to arm SBCs
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<Kanken> Opencv runs poorly on arm
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<Kanken> It relies strongly on hardware acceleration
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<Kanken> I tried my project on a super weak x86 mini pc and had better perfs
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<Kanken> Only 4 cores at 1.4ghz nets me 50 fps
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<Kanken> Arm lacks this type of acceleration and has to rely on raw processing power instead
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<Kanken> Opi4 was 17 fps just saying
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<Tenkawa> @Kanken no.. that's just the access to what we have.. Mali Bifrost GPU's can be accelerated
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<Tenkawa> so some ARM GPU's have hardware accel
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<Tenkawa> NVIDIA also does as well
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<Tenkawa> The Tegra SoC's are highly graphicly tuned from my understanding
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<Kanken> That's not the only issue
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<Kanken> Arm has terrible thread switching costs
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<Kanken> And memory copies aren't nearly as fast
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<Kanken> X86 has many extra instructions like avx
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<Kanken> Arm has neon and that's it
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<Kanken> And opencv takes advantage of that stuff
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<Kanken> Arm may be more power efficient
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<Kanken> But that's about it
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<Kanken> At least this stuff is what i think causes the poor perfs for arm on my project
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<Kanken> And yeah my project is not gpu-bound, it only stresses the cpu.
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<Kanken> Besides the bits of opencl that opencv runs on the gpu and the final 2d render
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<Tenkawa> Then you are running entirely the wrong ARM cpu
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<renn999> I can't get cpu temperature....