Radxa ROCK 5B vs BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Basic Specifications
Price
$42*
RAM8GB512MB
SoC
Mali-G610 MP4
Rockchip NPU 3.0 (6 TOPS)
ArchitectureARMARM
CPU Cores
8 cores
4× Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz
4× Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz
1 cores
1× Cortex-A8 @ 0.8GHz

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Detailed Reviews

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Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
849
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data
Multi-Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3,043
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3,113 MIPS
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data
Multi-Core Combined
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
16,486 MIPS
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
41.58 GFLOPS
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data
Performance/Watt
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2.17 GFLOPS/W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
1,376
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
109
Multi Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
6,340
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2,911
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3.7 kH/s
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
0.58 kH/s
Multi Core
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
21.76 kH/s
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

TinyMemBench

Higher Bandwidth is Better

memcpy
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
243.1 MB/s
memset
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
1,507.6 MB/s

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

RAM Score
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
1,402
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data

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
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data
Tokens/Watt
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
0.02 tok/W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (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 ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
7.8 MB/s
4K Random Write
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
5.3 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - eMMC

Higher Speeds are Better • BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (16GB eMMC)

4K Random Read
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
10.8 MB/s
4K Random Write
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
14.3 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
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
332 Mbps
Ethernet Down
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2,358 Mbps
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
333 Mbps

Power & Thermal

Power consumption at idle and under various workloads

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Idle Power
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
4.5W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
1.4W
Load Power
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
9.5W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
1.7W
Ollama Max
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
14.7W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data
Linpack Max
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
19.2W
BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco (512MB)
No Data

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