On 28 August 2018 at 05:26, Joseph Mayer <joseph.ma...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Joel, > > Are you saying you gave up on using the PCIe at all? > > There's a 4-lane PCIe connector on the Rock64 right, aren't those > dedicated lanes, and, if they'd somehow be shared with any other > hardware, then you should still have supposedly >90% of the 16gbps > capacity available? > > Did you try connecting some multiport 1gbps or 10gbps PCIe NIC?
That's where my Wireless card goes - so it's not very useful. My general experience with the Arm boards SBC's vs the Intel SoC's is the Arm SBC's generally have screwed up some fundemental Bus sharing in their designs (either placing the USB controller on so it shares bandwidth with the GMAC) or Exposing only a Single X4 PCI lane (which inevitably get's used by Wireless - unless you want to stick with the onboard wireless which suffers from the first problem). > > Geekbench figures indicate that RK3399 and Celeron N3160 should perform > fairly similarly. > > https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=rk3399 > https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=n3160 > https://ark.intel.com/products/91831/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N3160-2M-Cache-up-to-2_24-GHz The first test I normally subject my boxes too is localhost flent (which is mostly netperf/iperf3/iperf under the hood) which provides a bunch of test suites which are relatively good at finding out where the Packet gen/receive limits are and if there is jitter - and provide a starting point for further investigation. Irtt (which is written in go) is also a really useful tool to figure out latencies (it times sleep accuracy) on the SoC's. Note the Arm boards don't have AES-NI either, so once you start playing with VPN it get's pretty bad in comparison. (Some of the newer arms do have AES offloads but - implementations are varied, the H3/H5 sunxi platform is where I am focused on at the moment - but not for network stuff) > > On August 27, 2018 5:51 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <j...@aenertia.net> wrote: >> I do actually have an rk3399 (firefly) - like you I also had high hopes for >> it.
