With the performance boost of the Raspberry Pi 2 & 3 most alternative maker boards loose their appeal - but the various outputs or the presence of gigabit ethernet still makes some alternatives into better options. Recently Udoo has caught my attention as a project with interesting ideas and their recent x86 model has great potential for real-world deployment where the Raspberry is too limited - digital signage springs to mind. I've known about Udoo for years but now that their x86 board is on it's way I think it has excellent potential even though it's a lot more expensive than the Pi.
Board | URL | CPU | Cores | GPU | RAM |
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Raspberry Pi 3 | Website | ARM Cortex A53 | 4@1.2GHz | Broadcom VideoCore IV | 1GB |
Beagleboard | Website | ARM Cortex A8 | 1@1GHz | PowerVR SGX530 | 512MB |
Pandaboard | Website | ARM Cortex A9 MPCore | 2@1.2GHz | PowerVR SGX540 | 1GB |
ArndaleBoard | Website | ARM Cortex A15 | 2@1.7GHz | Mali-T604 | 2GB |
Wandboard | Website | Freescale i.MX6 Quad | 4@1GHz | Vivante GC 2000 | 2GB |
Udoo | Website | Freescale i.MX6 Quad | 4@1GHz | Vivante GC 2000 | 1GB |
HummingBoard | Website | Freescale i.MX6 Quad | 4@1GHz | Vivante GC 2000 | 2GB |
pcDuino3 | Website | AllWinner A20 (ARM Cortex A7 Dual Core) | 2@1GHz | Mali-400MP2 (Dual Core) | 1GB |
Banana Pi | Website | AllWinner A20 (ARM Cortex A7 Dual Core) | 2@1GHz | Mali-400MP2 (Dual Core) | 1GB |
Cubieboard | Website | AllWinner A20 (ARM Cortex-A7 Dual Core) | 2@1GHz | Mali-400MP2 (Dual Core) | 2GB |
OLinuXino | Website | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? |
APC Rock | Website | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? |
Origenboard | Website | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? |
ODROID | Website | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? |
CuBox-i | Website | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? |
I'll keep updating this.