Radxa ROCK 5B vs ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Basic Specifications
Price
$394*
RAM8GB4GB
SoC
Mali-G610 MP4
Rockchip NPU 3.0 (6 TOPS)
Mali-G57 MC5
MediaTek 3rd-Gen NPU (5 TOPS)
ArchitectureARMARM
CPU Cores
8 cores
4× Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz
4× Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz
8 cores
4× Cortex-A78 @ 2.2GHz
4× Cortex-A55 @ 2.0GHz

Legend

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Detailed Reviews

Read our comprehensive reviews from bret.dk featuring data and benchmarks from sbc.compare:

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Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
849
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
994
Multi-Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3,043
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
3,520

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3,113 MIPS
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
3,273 MIPS
Multi-Core Combined
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
16,486 MIPS
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
18,025 MIPS

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
41.58 GFLOPS
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
41.67 GFLOPS
Performance/Watt
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2.17 GFLOPS/W
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
2.53 GFLOPS/W

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
1,376
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
1,169
Multi Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
6,340
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
6,012

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2,911
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
3,453

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3.7 kH/s
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
4.89 kH/s
Multi Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
21.76 kH/s
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
27.57 kH/s

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

TinyMemBench

Higher Bandwidth is Better

memcpy
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
13,262.5 MB/s
memset
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
18,999.6 MB/s

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

RAM Score
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
1,402
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
1,276

AI & LLM Performance

Large Language Model inference performance

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Tokens/sec
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
0.21 tok/s
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
3.61 tok/s
Tokens/Watt
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
0.02 tok/W
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
0.33 tok/W
Tokens/Dollar
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
0.01 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 ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
11.7 MB/s
4K Random Write
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
13.6 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - UFS

Higher Speeds are Better • ADLINK I-PI SMARC 1200 (64GB UFS)

4K Random Read
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
164 MB/s
4K Random Write
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
172.7 MB/s

Network Performance

Ethernet and WiFi throughput measured with iPerf3

iPerf3 Network Performance

Higher Speeds are Better

Ethernet Up
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2,352 Mbps
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
941 Mbps
Ethernet Down
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2,358 Mbps
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
940 Mbps

Power & Thermal

Power consumption at idle and under various workloads

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Idle Power
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
4.5W
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
4.2W
Load Power
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
9.5W
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
10.6W
Ollama Max
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
14.7W
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
11W
Linpack Max
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
19.2W
ADLINK I-Pi SMARC 1200 (4GB)
16.5W

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