Banana Pi M3 Overview And Android Benchmark Test 8 Core Single Board Computer

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys as ETA prime back here again today it is Memorial Day here in the states and this morning at 9 o'clock DHL showed up at my door now all these companies are usually shut down on Memorial Day but a week and a half ago I was contacted by the banana pie company and they wanted to send me one of their boards for review and testing and a few tutorials on YouTube I definitely said ok send it on so they shipped it up Friday and it got here on Monday from China now what we have here is the banana pie m3 this board on paper seems like a beast it is packed with features and it just seems super powerful now the thing is if the software isn't good the hardware is useless so we're gonna have to get into that but first I want to do an overview of the hardware this sucker has an 8 core or an octa-core 1.8 gigahertz CPU is an 883 T ARM Cortex a 70 it has one megabyte of l2 cache built into the CPU the GPU is a power VR SGX 544 MP 1 it has 2 gigabytes of ddr3 memory on the back side here we have a micro SD card slot which is good up to 64 gigabytes here we have a SATA port for running off a SSD or a hard drive here's your SATA power will power it from the ground and the power here so if I want to hook up an SSD which I'm probably going to do in the future we have that option it has built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n built-in Bluetooth 4.0 as hdmi 1.4 out here we have an infrared sensor a microphone sensor power reset buttons OTG USB on-the-go storage or you can also power the unit from this but they supplied well they added a barrel jack which is really cool because you can get a lot more power through the barrel jack than you can through that little tiny u.s. you know the micro USB connector so another cool thing is it has 8 gigabytes of on-board storage so it has a little 8 gigabyte e MMC chip built in I mean there's there's so much stuff here we got audio audio in for the onboard microphone 3.5 millimeter audio jack 2 USB 2.0 ports Ethernet 10 by a hundred 40 GPIO pins I mean this thing seems like it's gonna do a good job so here's the size comparison this is the Raspberry Pi 2 my PI 3 right now is tied up in another project but this is the same size so here's a brass or a rose apple pie so we can get a size comparison of those and the Raspberry Pi 0 so roughly about the same size it's a bit tad longer than the Raspberry Pi but a lot more power I'm gonna flash android 5.1 1/2 an SD card i'm going to boot it up and in this video i'm just going to do some benchmark tests we will run and to to benchmark Geekbench SunSpider maybe a couple other ones we'll just see how it performs it did come with a few heat sinks but it doesn't have any I don't have any sticky pads right now I got some coming in the mail but it's gonna take a while so let's get into it this thing looks awesome let's see how the software performs okay so we're booted up to android 5.1.1 now one thing I noticed was the image that you can download from their website does not contain the Google Play Store what I did was I created a system folder on my desktop computer a place the it's not the newest gaps it was a version of gaps and I inserted it using ADB so now I have Google Play installed and it's working great the unit seems to respond very well we have Bluetooth I have Wi-Fi connected Bluetooth can be connected to controllers I connected my Nyko play pad we're gonna go into cpu-z see what we got here eight core a seven at 1.8 gigahertz umm power VR SGX 544 MP manufacturer all winter which is the CPU make now a showing screen resolution of 1280 by 720 I did set it to 1080 that's odd total RAM to gigabytes 5.1.1 okay cool we have thermal temperature gauges here okay so first one I'm going to test out is Geekbench 3 oh I don't have any heat sinks on this unit right now so we'll see how it performs I have read that it has a thermal throttling built into the CPU so it will down clock the CPU and it reaches a certain degree but we're gonna test it straight out of the box like it is first up Geekbench 3 what I'm gonna do here is run these benchmarks and I'm just gonna either fast forward or skip to when it's done cuz these can take a while so single-core was 303 and multicore was twelve hundred and thirty not too great yeah not too great at all for this first test I do have some automatic background updates going on which could have affected performance a bit but not by much I was hoping for at least a 25 to 3,000 on the multi-core with this eight core at 1.8 well try the next benchmark here just go ahead and close all these nothing was running in the background except for some Google Play updates next up an oldie but a goodie I have used this on a lot of older devices I 414 for some reason when I let this go the screen goes black on this app another one not so great but not super terrible okay so here we're gonna do 3d mark now this is a very intense test so hopefully I don't get any overheating or freezing I could have sworn I had already installed this okay so we're not gonna do 3d mark right now I will do and to to benchmark which is another very hard test on any Android device really so when I run this on my iphone 6s it's not that 6s plus but the 6s I get a hundred and thirty-two thousand is my score now I know it's a different operating system they do run the same test though 27000 like I said before my iphone6s scores a 130 mm so this is way off um not too bad for a cheap you know single board computer but not too great with that eight core at 1.8 gigahertz now I know that these are just benchmarks we're gonna get out of here and I got one more test here I'm just gonna run a browser benchmark do on every device I've ever owned pretty much so I'm gonna run SunSpider I have run this on pretty much every device I've ever owned that is able to connect to the internet this is the older son Spyder they have a new jet stream but I have a baseline in my head of what this you know a decent performance out of SunSpider now this is just a browser benchmark okay twelve hundred and eighty-four for reference I have a older eye 720 608 scores a 161 68 compared to the twelve hundred and eighty four so this is not bad for a mobile browser score that's it right now guys for the benchmarking and just a quick overview of the banana pie in three so what I really want to do is test emulation on this you guys know I love it I love it you guys love it that's why you watch this next videos that I'm going to be doing I will test out PSP Dreamcast SNES n64 PlayStation 1 all of the available emulators on Android I'm going to test now I know the benchmarks came in and they were somewhat disappointing to me but I know this thing is way faster than the Raspberry Pi 3 it is now the big thing is you can have awesome super fast hardware but if the software is not there if the development for the software is not there then you just have super fast hardware that will just sit on the desk it's basically what it will be but if they keep updating which I've looked on their website they have some Debian Ubuntu mate this Android build raspbian build and a bunch of other Linux based operating systems for this it looks like they are definitely working on the software side I'm gonna come back and I will do some in my next few videos it's going to be emulation on the banana pie m3 so if you guys have any comments or questions leave them down below or you can send me a private message and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys as ETA prime back here again today it is Memorial Day here in the states and this morning at 9 o'clock DHL showed up at my door now all these companies are usually shut down on Memorial Day but a week and a half ago I was contacted by the banana pie company and they wanted to send me one of their boards for review and testing and a few tutorials on YouTube I definitely said ok send it on so they shipped it up Friday and it got here on Monday from China now what we have here is the banana pie m3 this board on paper seems like a beast it is packed with features and it just seems super powerful now the thing is if the software isn't good the hardware is useless so we're gonna have to get into that but first I want to do an overview of the hardware this sucker has an 8 core or an octa-core 1.8 gigahertz CPU is an 883 T ARM Cortex a 70 it has one megabyte of l2 cache built into the CPU the GPU is a power VR SGX 544 MP 1 it has 2 gigabytes of ddr3 memory on the back side here we have a micro SD card slot which is good up to 64 gigabytes here we have a SATA port for running off a SSD or a hard drive here's your SATA power will power it from the ground and the power here so if I want to hook up an SSD which I'm probably going to do in the future we have that option it has built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n built-in Bluetooth 4.0 as hdmi 1.4 out here we have an infrared sensor a microphone sensor power reset buttons OTG USB on-the-go storage or you can also power the unit from this but they supplied well they added a barrel jack which is really cool because you can get a lot more power through the barrel jack than you can through that little tiny u.s. you know the micro USB connector so another cool thing is it has 8 gigabytes of on-board storage so it has a little 8 gigabyte e MMC chip built in I mean there's there's so much stuff here we got audio audio in for the onboard microphone 3.5 millimeter audio jack 2 USB 2.0 ports Ethernet 10 by a hundred 40 GPIO pins I mean this thing seems like it's gonna do a good job so here's the size comparison this is the Raspberry Pi 2 my PI 3 right now is tied up in another project but this is the same size so here's a brass or a rose apple pie so we can get a size comparison of those and the Raspberry Pi 0 so roughly about the same size it's a bit tad longer than the Raspberry Pi but a lot more power I'm gonna flash android 5.1 1/2 an SD card i'm going to boot it up and in this video i'm just going to do some benchmark tests we will run and to to benchmark Geekbench SunSpider maybe a couple other ones we'll just see how it performs it did come with a few heat sinks but it doesn't have any I don't have any sticky pads right now I got some coming in the mail but it's gonna take a while so let's get into it this thing looks awesome let's see how the software performs okay so we're booted up to android 5.1.1 now one thing I noticed was the image that you can download from their website does not contain the Google Play Store what I did was I created a system folder on my desktop computer a place the it's not the newest gaps it was a version of gaps and I inserted it using ADB so now I have Google Play installed and it's working great the unit seems to respond very well we have Bluetooth I have Wi-Fi connected Bluetooth can be connected to controllers I connected my Nyko play pad we're gonna go into cpu-z see what we got here eight core a seven at 1.8 gigahertz umm power VR SGX 544 MP manufacturer all winter which is the CPU make now a showing screen resolution of 1280 by 720 I did set it to 1080 that's odd total RAM to gigabytes 5.1.1 okay cool we have thermal temperature gauges here okay so first one I'm going to test out is Geekbench 3 oh I don't have any heat sinks on this unit right now so we'll see how it performs I have read that it has a thermal throttling built into the CPU so it will down clock the CPU and it reaches a certain degree but we're gonna test it straight out of the box like it is first up Geekbench 3 what I'm gonna do here is run these benchmarks and I'm just gonna either fast forward or skip to when it's done cuz these can take a while so single-core was 303 and multicore was twelve hundred and thirty not too great yeah not too great at all for this first test I do have some automatic background updates going on which could have affected performance a bit but not by much I was hoping for at least a 25 to 3,000 on the multi-core with this eight core at 1.8 well try the next benchmark here just go ahead and close all these nothing was running in the background except for some Google Play updates next up an oldie but a goodie I have used this on a lot of older devices I 414 for some reason when I let this go the screen goes black on this app another one not so great but not super terrible okay so here we're gonna do 3d mark now this is a very intense test so hopefully I don't get any overheating or freezing I could have sworn I had already installed this okay so we're not gonna do 3d mark right now I will do and to to benchmark which is another very hard test on any Android device really so when I run this on my iphone 6s it's not that 6s plus but the 6s I get a hundred and thirty-two thousand is my score now I know it's a different operating system they do run the same test though 27000 like I said before my iphone6s scores a 130 mm so this is way off um not too bad for a cheap you know single board computer but not too great with that eight core at 1.8 gigahertz now I know that these are just benchmarks we're gonna get out of here and I got one more test here I'm just gonna run a browser benchmark do on every device I've ever owned pretty much so I'm gonna run SunSpider I have run this on pretty much every device I've ever owned that is able to connect to the internet this is the older son Spyder they have a new jet stream but I have a baseline in my head of what this you know a decent performance out of SunSpider now this is just a browser benchmark okay twelve hundred and eighty-four for reference I have a older eye 720 608 scores a 161 68 compared to the twelve hundred and eighty four so this is not bad for a mobile browser score that's it right now guys for the benchmarking and just a quick overview of the banana pie in three so what I really want to do is test emulation on this you guys know I love it I love it you guys love it that's why you watch this next videos that I'm going to be doing I will test out PSP Dreamcast SNES n64 PlayStation 1 all of the available emulators on Android I'm going to test now I know the benchmarks came in and they were somewhat disappointing to me but I know this thing is way faster than the Raspberry Pi 3 it is now the big thing is you can have awesome super fast hardware but if the software is not there if the development for the software is not there then you just have super fast hardware that will just sit on the desk it's basically what it will be but if they keep updating which I've looked on their website they have some Debian Ubuntu mate this Android build raspbian build and a bunch of other Linux based operating systems for this it looks like they are definitely working on the software side I'm gonna come back and I will do some in my next few videos it's going to be emulation on the banana pie m3 so if you guys have any comments or questions leave them down below or you can send me a private message and like always thanks for watching\n"