[Elinux-wiki-dev] $35 Raspberry Pi clone Lemon Pi board with Quad-core A9 and PowerVR544 GPU?

Bill Traynor btraynor at gmail.com
Thu May 28 18:33:00 UTC 2015


On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Brian Wilson <brian at wildsong.biz> wrote:
> I find wikipedia is the quickest source to answer quick questions on
> processors. Search this table for A7
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ARM_microarchitectures
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> Summary : The A9 is substantially faster and has more cache. Page does not
> mention power.
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> "Faster" often means "uses more power" but not always. The Lemon spec sheet
> calls for 5v/700ma (3.5W) and the RPi2 calls out 5v/800ma (4W) so on the
> specs the Lemon comes out ahead.
>
> They SAY the 40pin connector is 100% compatible but I'd say invest $35, and
> try it. Trust no one. :-) YMMV. You might be unlucky enough to have a board
> that is not compatible.
>
> Lemon runs Android 5.0 so I think that means they are using a different
> video engine, I think the GPU on the RPI is what blocked Android from moving
> forward on that board. I think this is a big plus but you might not care
> about Android. (It's useless on a web or file server for example)
>
>
> Brian
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> Such glorious times that have such things as Raspberry Pi's, too bad the end
> is so near!  :-)

The end?  What do you mean?

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> Brian
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