Radxa X4 vs BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Basic Specifications
Price$55*
RAM8GB512MB
SoC
Intel® UHD Graphics
Architecturex86ARM
CPU Cores
4 cores
4× Alder Lake-N @ 3.2GHz
1 cores
1× Cortex-A8 @ 1.0GHz

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Detailed Reviews

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Radxa X4 (8GB)
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1,243
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data
Multi-Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
2,981
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Radxa X4 (8GB)
3,756 MIPS
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
557 MIPS
Multi-Core Combined
Radxa X4 (8GB)
9,597 MIPS
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
Radxa X4 (8GB)
27.19 GFLOPS
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data
Performance/Watt
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1.23 GFLOPS/W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1,625
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
112
Multi Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
3,952
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
Radxa X4 (8GB)
4,782
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
5.61 kH/s
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
0.73 kH/s
Multi Core
Radxa X4 (8GB)
22.13 kH/s
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

RAM Score
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1,815
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data

AI & LLM Performance

Large Language Model inference performance

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Tokens/sec
Radxa X4 (8GB)
13.77 tok/s
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data
Tokens/Watt
Radxa X4 (8GB)
0.69 tok/W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data
Tokens/Dollar
Radxa X4 (8GB)
0.17 tok/$
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data

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
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
10.7 MB/s
4K Random Write
Radxa X4 (8GB)
No Data
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
8.7 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - eMMC

Higher Speeds are Better • BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (2GB eMMC)

4K Random Read
Radxa X4 (8GB)
No Data
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
4.4 MB/s
4K Random Write
Radxa X4 (8GB)
No Data
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
0.2 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
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data
4K Random Write
Radxa X4 (8GB)
1,013.3 MB/s
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
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
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
94 Mbps
Ethernet Down
Radxa X4 (8GB)
2,355 Mbps
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
94 Mbps

Power & Thermal

Power consumption at idle and under various workloads

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Idle Power
Radxa X4 (8GB)
No Data
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
1.1W
Load Power
Radxa X4 (8GB)
12.2W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
1.7W
Ollama Max
Radxa X4 (8GB)
20.5W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data
Linpack Max
Radxa X4 (8GB)
22.1W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black (512MB)
No Data

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