Raspberry Pi 4B vs Jetson Nano

[Music] welcome to another video from explaining computers comm this time I'm going to be comparing the Raspberry Pi 4b and the jetsam nano both of these 2019 SBC's are potential board to upgrade to from a Raspberry Pi 3 B or three B+ and L therefore be including some Raspberry Pi 3 billion 3 B plus test results in my performance benchmarks right here we have the Raspberry Pi 4 B and the Nvidia Jetson nano or to be more accurate this is a Raspberry Pi 4 B 4 gigabyte model and this is a Jetson Dino some assistive on a module plugged into the carrier board that comes in my Jetson nano developer kit and the prices for these two are about two fifty five dollars or fifty three pounds of the four gigabyte Raspberry Pi for B and ninety nine dollars or 95 pounds of the Jetson Nano developer kit and before some of you say in the comments you can't buy a jet to nano for those prices you can you go directly to the Nvidia website so I've reviewed both of these boards in recent videos but I'll just give you a very quick a comparison of the hardware here in terms of the CPU the Raspberry Pi 4 B is based on a quad core ARM Cortex a 72 chip running at 1.5 gigahertz whereas the Jetson nano is based on a quad core ARM Cortex a57 cpu running at one points for three gigahertz so the Jetson now has got a slightly slower CPU and a slightly earlier version yeah raspberry PI's a 72 he's based upon the earlier on cortex a 57 on the Jetson no no in terms of memory both of the boards have got 4 gigabytes other low-power ddr4 grams are exactly the same there but in terms of a GPU they're very different the Raspberry Pi 4b has got a video course six broad combi GPU as far as I'm aware whereas the Jetson nano has got a 1:28 cuticle NVIDIA Maxwell GPU the big difference between these two boards is that we've got a much more powerful GPU on the Jetson nunna in terms of connecting displays both of these boards will support two 4k displays on the arrestee pi/4 B we've got two micro HDMI connectors down there whereas on my Jets another we've got a displayed port of a full size HDMI connector and both of these boards have got hardware decoding for h.264 and h.265 video at up to 60 frames a second 4k but only with the right software and that's going to be critical to keep in mind in these tests just because a piece of hardware can do something doesn't mean it can be delivered with the software you've got available so software supports the GPU it's critical in terms of different applications for these balls in terms of storage both these boards are going to be booting the operating system for microSD card which is a under here on the pile onto here on the the jetson now there's so no difference there in terms of the networking they both got a Gigabit Ethernet there we arm that was socket on the board there the PI is also got a Wi-Fi 802 one 1bg and an AC Wi-Fi and bluetooth 5.0 on the PI whereas there is no onboard wireless networking on the Jetson nano but it has got an e keyed MDOT to slot which can take a wireless module but because we haven't got it only on the board here I'm going to be doing all my tests where I need to go online using the Gigabit Ethernet in terms of the ports you can see at the front of both of them they've got four type a USB ports USB 3 I'll USB 2 two of each on the PI for USB asleep on the Jensen another in terms of other connectors we've got a a mid PSCs our camera serial interface connector on both boards we've also got a display connector on the rapid time both boards have got a 40 pin GPIO connector verse 3 PI compatible hardly surprising it's whereas before I can battle on the Raspberry Pi and they've also both got her pinned which are to have a power over isn't it modules plug plugged in they're talking of power the Raspberry Pi 4b is powered by a USBC going in here five volts whereas on the Jets another we can go in via the micro USB or this barrel jack and most of the board's could also be powered by GPIO so there we are that is the two boards and the funnest thing I need to say is I'm not going to be running the same operating system on each board in the test and that will immediately annoy some people and what I'd say is computers in use our systems combinations of hardware and software and on each of these boards I'm going to be using the operating system which is the one supplied and intended to be used and supported most by the manufacturer we should have the best drivers for the board's so specifically I've got to be running the latest version of raspbian on the Raspberry Pi for B and I'm going to be running jet pack on the Jetson Nano which is supplied by Nvidia for this board and both of these are on base Linux distributions which have based on Debian so there we are that is a hardware let's now put it on test right here we are in raspbian on the Raspberry Pi for B and in jet pack on the Jetson Nano and it's worth pointing out that jet pack is a 64-bit operating system while the latest version of raspbian remains 32-bit for backwards compatibility with previous PI's anyway let's get going with our first performance test which is going to be this the octane web browser performance benchmark which were running in chromium now as you can see octane runs a range of tests and in particular test out JavaScript performance and reports a single final benchmark where the highest score is the best so let's speed through to the end and here we are we have a score of 82 to 0 for the PI for B so if we now switch to jetpack Irma Jetson none oh and again bring up the chromium browser and run octane we get a score of seven for seven for a little bit slower for the jetsam nother I've also run the octane test on the Raspberry Pi 3 B resulting in a score of two six seven two as well as on the PI 3 B+ which delivers a result of two nine six seven so if we now amalgamate these numbers we can see we have significantly better browser performance on both the PI for B and the Jetson nano compared to the previous pie sweet models with the PI for be at the top of the table right on next tests were of USB data transfer speed and the speed of reading a board micro SD card so what I've done here is to connect a USB 3 SSD and we're going to test its read performance using the HD palm or HD parameters utility which will give us a pretty good idea of the speed in the USB interface now clearly this test could be bottlenecks by the speed of the SSD which is well over 400 megabytes a second but in practice I don't think we'll hit this limit so here we are in raspbian on a PI 3 B where I'll now execute the command to run a read performance test of the connected SSD with no caching and here it goes and there we are the PI 3 B is transferring data over its USB ports at about twenty eight point four megabytes a second I'm now going to repeat the test for the micro SD card and once again things are happening and we get a result of about 20 1.7 megabytes a second as a speed of reading the card on a PI 3 B so let's now move to a pi/3 B+ and our speed through the same tests and as we would expect we get very similar results of about twenty eight point three megabytes a second with the USB transfer speed and about twenty two point one megabytes a second for microSD card read and I should note here that all tests are using the same USB three SSD and a SanDisk Ultra microSD card well it now gets exciting because we can move to the Raspberry Pi for B and see how much faster it is so again we'll run through all the tests and here we can see a dramatic improvement to about two hundred and sixty five point two megabytes a second for USB transfer speed and forty point eight megabytes a second for micro SD card transfer speed so very big improvements here and finally will repeat the tests on the Jetson nano and here the USB transfer speed is a little higher at two hundred eighty eight point four megabytes a second while sdcard performance is significantly better at a sixty two point five megabytes a second so once again we'll look at all of this data on a table which makes it very clear indeed with a Raspberry Pi four B or a Jetson nano offer a very significant upgrade over the Raspberry Pi three models now let's compare 1080p YouTube playback in chromium and here we're looking at the performance of a Raspberry Pi 3 B and as you can see we have a very significant number of dropped frames transitioning to the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ things are pretty similar with a number of dropped frames still very high and there's not a lot more I can say here if we now move to the Raspberry Pi for B playback I think looks a little better although we've still got a great many dropped frames YouTube playback always seems to be a bit problematic on a PI results in to be a bit variable and the performance here I think is a bit worse than when I first tested out the Raspberry Pi 4 be with pre-release software and I guess it is still early days for the Raspberry Pi for B the software may be optimized further than this so maybe in time we'll get better in browser YouTube playback finally let's go to the Jetson Nano and here the performance it I think significantly better it's not perfect but we've got far fewer dropped frames but again playback can be improved with better software support for the board's GPU quite a powerful GPU here and I'll come back to this issue of software support Irma Jetson Nano at the end of the video right having shown you that YouTube playback is not perfect I thought we should play some local clips on both of pythor B and the Jetson Nano so here I've got a tester 1080p clip to play on the up high for B and looks like it's okay little low seeing at the start level basically that plays fine this is obviously both familiar footage to I started playing without any problems at all this test clip is okay and we can also play a range of different formats here without any issues straight out of the box here's an MTS file off a camera and cooling towers that's also playing fine no problem so we've got no problems with local video playback at least utter 1080p although you'll see the pie is quite busy doing this it's a what 44 45 percent SAR CPU load there so I doubt we've got a hardware acceleration for video playback running here yet in VLC on the PI 4 beep and you'll also see up here at the PI's getting rather heart it at about 61 62 degrees and for this test and for the test I'll be showing you in the next segment I've already got up quite a large heatsink on the Raspberry Pi 4b and I'll be looking at and pulling on the Raspberry Pi for B in a future video my view is having been testing this board out you really do need some sort of cooling solution on the elastic pipe for B anyway let's transition to the Jetson nanos we can play a video clip over here and again you'll see I've got the system on to running so we can see a CPU usage and we got the same test clip which halle run up there and it'll play and we can bring it up to a full screen and again there's no problem playing a 1080p video on there jets and none of that's working absolutely fine again some very familiar video and if I just to flick it like that and bring up the monitor you can see that again the CPU is relatively busy playing this video not as big as it was on the Raspberry Pi 4b but I do suspect again that we're not using hardware accelerated video playback here we're not using a deeper you we're using a super you to play this video anyway it basically works so you can be reassured you've got good 1080p video playback on both the Raspberry Pi 4 B and the Jetson nano right for our final test as you might have noticed I've installed a kdenlive to video editor on the Jetson Nano and the Raspberry Pi for be so let's launch it on the jets another let's show you how long it takes to run up kdenlive having it'll think down there and there we are and we'll bring in a recent file which is there I think and there we are we've got a video edit omneya the Jetson now I which you sir I think pretty impressive forces they actually the video clip we were just looking at a test clip was generating kdenlive on one or other of these bots our current number which one but it certainly works it doesn't play perfectly I am using transcoded Clips here but this is a usable video editor on a single ball computer which is pretty good it struggles a bit their silver dissolves you can see then goes back to normal playback so that's actually not bad at all so it's is a let's say it is usable it's not brilliant least rubber ball you know it's something you'd have to work with a bit but we have got workable video editing on the the Jetson nano using a cadent line so let's stick back to the Raspberry Pi for B and here we are more run-up kdenlive here and you can see how it cope with running up a video editor on a single board computer we're really stressing out these boards and these tests but that's what tests are for isn't it and we'll load in file which i think is that version and having to be careful having exactly same edit on the same SSD being accessed by different boards but there we are again we've got two video editing and running on the the Singapore computer on the Raspberry Pi 4b and I have to say it's not quite as stable here as it is on the Jetson though my wishes where I stopped it there it does sometimes crash and of course this is not necessarily a problem with a pie for B this could be just how occasion life happens to work on the system but what I thought we'd do is to render out this section of video it's about forty second clip on both boards so we can see their relative performance so let's go to render and we'll go to scripts and I set up the exactly the same on each board so if I start off that script like that to render out the file and then we'll a speed through to the end and there we are we've had a render time of what two minutes ten seconds on the raster PI for B and it's got roll the hot in the process actually hit 80 degrees up here during that process which is very hot considering we've got a heatsink on the board anyway let's fit back to the Jetson nano and we'll again render out exactly the same piece of video using a script and here as you can see we've got a render time of 1 minute 39 seconds so 1 minute 39 seconds to render out the clip on the Jets and nano compared to 2 minutes 10 seconds on the Raspberry Pi 4 B so the Jetson Nano has clearly got significantly better performance in kdenlive and there as beep I for me the Raspberry Pi for B and the Jetson Nano are both excellent maker boards right now if you need an SBC for more complicated AI robotics and related projects then the Jetson Nano is the bought gofal whereas for most people for more general SBC applications the Raspberry Pi for B is the better and cheaper option this said was the right software support that Jetson Nano could be an amazing media and retro gaming SBC and in that context I've been in contact with the developers Nvidia working on widgets of Nano to ask about future support in terms of media playback and things on the Jetson Nano and what they told me about it down here on my tablet I can tell you exactly what they've told me is that they are still in the planning stages of ffmpeg integration for the Jetson Hardware codex which would enable applications like Plex and the Kodi to have gone with a cuticle support on the jetsam Nana which would be amazing wouldn't it so right now that support isn't there but it's worth just keeping an eye on the Jetson Nano because if we do get that support for the ER the GPU for media stuff then it's going to be a whole different story so that is now it for this video hopefully you've found my performance comparisons useful if you've liked the video please press that like button if you haven't subscribed please subscribe and I hope to talk to you again very soon [Music] you

Channel: ExplainingComputers

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Keywords: Raspberry Pi 4, Jetson Nano, Raspberry Pi 4B, NVIDIA Jetson Nano, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 4 benchmark, Jetson Nano benchmark, Pi 4 vs Jetson Nano, Kdenlive, Octane, Youtube playback, sd card speed, usb speed test, test, benchmark, Christopher Barnatt, Barnatt, Raspberry Pi 3B, Raspberry Pi 3B+, raspberry pi video editing, video editing, Jetson Nano kdenlive, Raspberry Pi kdenlive, Pi 4, Pi 4B, Pi 3B, Pi 3B+

Id: kbn_6ixtIpA

Length: 18min 46sec (1126 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 07 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/gurgle528]

Never heard of the Jetson... Looks like it could be a promising platform

[u/overstitch]

SanDisk Ultra cards are really hit or miss-a SanDisk Extreme would have ensured that the device was the limiting factor and not the card when benchmarking.

I’ve had Ultras spontaneously die in my Pis without any real strain placed on them and had them just fail in my DSLR camera. And they were bought at Retail and not online.