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MAME Arcade Emulation SBC Benchmark Rankings

Compare arcade emulation speed across Single Board Computers using MAME's built-in benchmark

22 boards tested · speeds from 48.1 to 1,747 (Emulation Speed %, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior)

22 results

Top Picks

Fastest OverallRadxa X4L 8GBN1001,747Emulation Speed %#1 of 22 · $135Best ValueOrange Pi 5B 4GBRK3588S17.8per $ (1,335 at $75)#2 of 22Fastest Under $75Orange Pi Zero 3W 4GBA733753.1Emulation Speed %#6 of 22 · $50
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Full Results

05001,0001,500
  1. 1
    Fastest Overall: Radxa X4L 8GBN100 · $135
    1,747 %
  2. 2
    Best Value: Orange Pi 5B 4GBRK3588S · $75
    1,335 %
  3. 3
    Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 4GBBCM2712 · $100
    1,125 %
  4. 4
    Cool Pi 4B 4GBRK3588S · $140
    1,103 %
  5. 5
    Radxa ROCK 5B+ 16GBRK3588 · $135
    1,101 %
  6. 6
    Fastest Under $75: Orange Pi Zero 3W 4GBA733 · $50
    753.1 %
  7. 7
    Orange Pi Zero 4 4GBA733 · $68
    739.8 %
  8. 8
    Banana Pi CM4 4GBA311D · $104
    604.1 %
  9. 9
    Libre Computer Alta 4GBA311D · $125
    504.4 %
  10. 10
    Banana Pi M5 4GBS905X3 · $146
    273.4 %
  11. 11
    DEBIX Model A 4GBiMX 8M Plus · $135
    223.7 %
  12. 12
    Khadas VIM1S 2GBS905Y4 · $59
    201.1 %
  13. 13
    Banana Pi M4 Zero 4GBH618 · $118
    186.4 %
  14. 14
    Libre Computer La Frite 1GBS805X · $30
    176 %
  15. 15
    Libre Computer Renegade 2GBRK3328 · $45
    166.6 %
  16. 16
    Orange Pi RV2 4GBX1 · $46
    160.9 %
  17. 17
    Sipeed LicheePi 3A 8GBK1 · $100
    156.7 %
  18. 18
    Luckfox Lyra Ultra W 512MBRK3506B · $41
    118.9 %
  19. 19
    Radxa ROCK Pi S 512MBRK3308B · $30
    102 %
  20. 20
    Banana Pi P2 Zero 512MBH3 · $69
    87.9 %
  21. 21
    BeagleBoard BeagleBone Green Eco 512MBSitara AM3358 · $107
    70.5 %
  22. 22
    Raspberry Pi 1 (Model B) 512MBBCM2835 · $35
    48.1 %
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Emulation Speed (% of real time), higher is better
Showing 22 boards · median 223.7 %Top Picks from above

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the fastest single board computer in MAME (Street Fighter II: The World Warrior)?

The Radxa X4L 8GB currently tops our MAME (Street Fighter II: The World Warrior) ranking with 1,747 (Emulation Speed %), measured on real hardware with our standardised test setup.

What is a good MAME (Street Fighter II: The World Warrior) score for an SBC?

Across the 22 boards we have tested, MAME (Street Fighter II: The World Warrior) results range from 48.1 to 1,747 (Emulation Speed %), with a median of 223.7. Anything above the median puts a board in the faster half of the market.

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About MAME Arcade Emulation SBC Benchmark Rankings testing

MAME's built-in benchmark runs a real arcade game as fast as the board can manage, with no video or sound output and no frame limiter, then reports the emulation speed as a percentage of real time: 100% is exactly full speed, anything higher is headroom. We emulate 90 seconds of each game three times and report the average, running extra passes when the first three disagree by more than 5%. Emulation leans heavily on a single fast CPU core, so this tracks single-core performance more closely than multi-core scores. Each game has its own ranking; switch between them above. We use the MAME package from each board's own Linux distribution, so the MAME version can differ between boards and is shown in the table. Higher is better.