Radxa X4 vs Raspberry Pi 500

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Basic Specifications
Price
RAM8GB8GB
SoC
Intel® UHD Graphics
VideoCore VII
Architecturex86ARM
CPU Cores
4 cores
4× Alder Lake-N @ 3.2GHz
4 cores
4× Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz

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Detailed Reviews

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Radxa X4 (8GB)
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1,243
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
903
Multi-Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
2,981
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
2,162

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Radxa X4 (8GB)
3,756 MIPS
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
3,375 MIPS
Multi-Core Combined
Radxa X4 (8GB)
9,597 MIPS
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
12,057 MIPS

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
Radxa X4 (8GB)
27.19 GFLOPS
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
36.48 GFLOPS
Performance/Watt
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1.23 GFLOPS/W
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
3.41 GFLOPS/W

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1,625
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
1,649
Multi Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
3,952
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
4,601

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
Radxa X4 (8GB)
4,782
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
2,382

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
5.61 kH/s
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
3.86 kH/s
Multi Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
22.13 kH/s
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
15.43 kH/s

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

RAM Score
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1,815
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
1,379

AI & LLM Performance

Large Language Model inference performance

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Tokens/sec
Radxa X4 (8GB)
13.77 tok/s
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
9.96 tok/s
Tokens/Watt
Radxa X4 (8GB)
0.69 tok/W
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
1.13 tok/W
Tokens/Dollar
Radxa X4 (8GB)
0.17 tok/$
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
0.1 tok/$

Storage Performance

Disk I/O throughput measured with FIO

fio Storage Performance - microSD

Higher Speeds are Better • Raspberry Pi 64GB (64GB microSD)

4K Random Read
Radxa X4 (8GB)
No Data
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
22.1 MB/s
4K Random Write
Radxa X4 (8GB)
No Data
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
15.3 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - M.2 NVMe

Higher Speeds are Better • Western Digital Black SN770M (500GB M.2 NVMe)

4K Random Read
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1,069.6 MB/s
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
No Data
4K Random Write
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1,013.3 MB/s
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
No Data

Network Performance

Ethernet and WiFi throughput measured with iPerf3

iPerf3 Network Performance

Higher Speeds are Better

Ethernet Up
Radxa X4 (8GB)
2,350 Mbps
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
937 Mbps
Ethernet Down
Radxa X4 (8GB)
2,355 Mbps
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
941 Mbps
WiFi Up
Radxa X4 (8GB)
No Data
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
71 Mbps
WiFi Down
Radxa X4 (8GB)
No Data
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
176 Mbps

Power & Thermal

Power consumption at idle and under various workloads

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Idle Power
Radxa X4 (8GB)
No Data
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
3W
Load Power
Radxa X4 (8GB)
12.2W
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
6W
Ollama Max
Radxa X4 (8GB)
20.5W
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
8.8W
Linpack Max
Radxa X4 (8GB)
22.1W
Raspberry Pi 500 (8GB)
10.7W

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