Asus Tinker Board

ASUS Tinker Board
Type 90MB0QY1-M0EAY0
Release date Unknown; last mentioned March 13, 2017 (2017-03-13)
Introductory price about US$59.99
Operating system TinkerOS (a Debian Linux derivative), Armbian (Debian or Ubuntu derivative), Android
System-on-chip used Rockchip RK3288
CPU 1.8 GHz 32-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A17
Memory 2 GBs LPDDR3 RAM
Storage MicroSDHC UHS-1 slot
Graphics 4K HDMI
Website ASUS specifications page

The ASUS Tinker Board is a single board computer launched by ASUS in early 2017. Its physical size and GPIO pinout are designed to be compatible with the second-generation and later Raspberry Pi models. The first released board features 4K video, 2GB of onboard RAM, gigabit Ethernet and a Rockchip RK3288 processor running at 1.8GHz.[1]

Specifications

The specifications provided by ASUS[2] include:

History

ASUS' intent to release a single board computer was leaked shortly after CES 2017[3] on SlideShare.[4] ASUS originally planned for a late February 2017 release, but a UK vendor broke the embargo and began advertising and selling boards starting on February 13, before ASUS' marketing department was ready.[5] ASUS subsequently pulled the release; the Amazon sales page was changed to show a March 13, 2017 release date, but was later removed entirely.[6] However, as of March 24, the Tinker Board again became available on Amazon. ASUS assured reviewer websites that the board is now in full production.[7]

Benchmarks

Very limited information is available at this time due to the few boards that have made it into the wild. However, tests so far have shown that the Tinker Board has roughly twice the processing power of the Raspberry Pi Model 3 when the Pi 3 runs in 32-bit mode.[8] Because the Pi 3 has not released a 64-bit operating system yet, no comparisons are available against a Pi 3 running in 64-bit mode.

Recent benchmark testing found that while the WLAN performance is poor at only around 30Mbit/s, the gigabit ethernet delivers a full 950Mbit/s throughput.[7] RAM access tested using the mbw benchmark is 25% faster than the Pi 3. SD card (microSD) access is about twice as fast at 37MiB/s for buffered reads (compared to typically around 18MiB/s for the Pi 3[9]) due to the Tinker Board's SDIO 3.0 interface, while cached reads can fly at up to 770MiB/s.[7]

References

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