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Banana Pi R4 8GB

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Basic Specifications
Price
RAM8GB
SoCMediaTek MT7988A
ArchitectureARM
CPU Cores
4 cores
4× Cortex-A73 @ 1.8GHz

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Banana Pi R4 (8GB)

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
305
Multi-Core
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
889

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
1,715 MIPS
Multi-Core Combined
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
5,894 MIPS

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
15.71 GFLOPS
Performance/Watt
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
2.01 GFLOPS/W

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
506
Multi Core
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
1,770

PassMark PerformanceTest

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
1,030
RAM Score
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
851

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
1.83 kH/s
Multi Core
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
7.3 kH/s

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Idle Power
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
4.9W
Load Power
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
6.4W
Ollama Max
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
7.9W
Linpack Max
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
7.8W

fio Storage Performance - microSD

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

4K Random Read
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
12.2 MB/s
4K Random Write
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
9.5 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - M.2 NVMe

Higher Speeds are Better • Crucial P5 Plus (1024GB M.2 NVMe)

4K Random Read
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
339.6 MB/s
4K Random Write
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
318.3 MB/s

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Tokens/sec
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
5.73 tok/s
Tokens/Watt
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
0.73 tok/W
Tokens/Dollar
Banana Pi R4 (8GB)
0.06 tok/$