Comparison of 64 open-spec, hacker friendly SBCs – Dec. 2015
The table on this page accompanies our 2015 year-end roundup of 64 sub-$200 open-spec, hacker friendly single board computers.
For our 2015 end-of-year roundup, we’ve identified 64 “open-spec, hacker friendly” SBCs that are either shipping now or are expected to ship within the first six months of 2016, and are available in workable sub-$200 models. The complete article is here: Ringing in 2016 with 64 open-spec, hacker friendly SBCs.
The following lists provide quick selection guides according to price and processor type. Farther below, you’ll find an alpha-sorted table summarizing each SBC’s processor, memory, and pricing.
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(Updated Jan 2, 2016)
| Categorized by Price | Categorized by Processor Type |
$50 or under:
A10-OlinuXino-Lime A20-OlinuXino-Micro Arduino Yún Mini Banana Pro BeagleBone Black BeagleBone Green Chip Domino Pi Basic Kit Galileo Gen 2 LeMaker Guitar LinkIt Smart 7688 Odroid-C1+ Orange Pi 2 / Orange Pi Mini 2 Orange Pi Plus2 Orange Pi PC pcDuino Lite/Lite WiFi pcDuino3Nano/Nano Lite pcDuino8 Uno Pine A64 Raspberry Pi Model A+ Raspberry Pi Model B+ Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Raspberry Pi Zero Udoo Neo (Basic) $51 to 100:
Banana Pi M2 Banana Pi M3 CloudBit Creator CI40 Cubieboard3 DPT-Board DragonBoard 410c Edison Kit for Arduino Firefly Prime HiKey LinkSprite Arches MarsBoard AM335x MarsBoard RK3066 Odroid-XU4 Parallella Radxa Rock Pro / Rock Lite Rico Board RioTboard SAMA5D4 Xplained Snickerdoodle Z-turn Board (with Zynq-7010) $101 to $200:
ClearFog Pro Cubieboard4 Firefly-RK3288 Gizmo 2 HummingBoard-Base/Pro (Pro version) HummingBoard-Edge (Quad version) HummingBoard-Gate (Quad version) Inforce 6410Plus PixiePro Radxa Rock 2 Square Udoo Quad/Dual/Dual Basic USB Armory Wandboard Quad/Dual/Solo (Quad) |
ARMv6 or v7 (32-bit) — single- or dual-core:
A20-OlinuXino-Micro Banana Pro BeagleBone Black BeagleBone Green Chip ClearFog Pro CloudBit Cubieboard3 MarsBoard AM335x MarsBoard RK3066 MarsBoard RK3066 Pro MinnowBoard Max Turbot Parallella pcDuino Lite/Lite WiFi PCDuino3Nano/Nano Lite Raspberry Pi Model A+ Raspberry Pi Model B+ Raspberry Pi Zero Rico Board RioTboard SAMA5D4 Xplained Snickerdoodle Udoo Neo USB Armory Z-turn Board ARMv6 or v7 (32-bit) — quad- to octa-core:
Banana Pi M2 Banana Pi M3 Cubieboard4 Firefly Prime Firefly-RK3288 HummingBoard-Base/Pro (Pro version) HummingBoard-Edge (Quad version) HummingBoard-Gate (Quad version) Inforce 6410Plus LeMaker Guitar LinkSprite Acadia V3 LinkSprite Arches Odroid-C1+ Odroid-XU4 Orange Pi 2 / Orange Pi Mini 2 Orange Pi Plus2 Orange Pi PC pcDuino8 Uno PixiePro Radxa Rock Pro / Rock Lite Radxa Rock 2 Square Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Udoo Quad/Dual/Dual Basic Wandboard Quad/Dual/Solo (Quad) ARMv8 (64-bit) — all quad- to octa-core:
DragonBoard 410c HiKey LinkSprite Acadia V3 Pine A64 x86:
Edison Kit for Arduino Galileo Gen 2 Gizmo 2 MinnowBoard Max Turbot MIPS:
Creator CI40 Domino Pi Basic Kit DPT-Board LinkIt Smart 7688 |
(Updated Jan 2, 2016)
| SBC | Processor | RAM | Price |
| 86Duino / 86Duino One | Vortex86EX, 1x x86 @ 300Mhz | 128MB | $39, $69 |
| A10-OlinuXino-Lime | Allwinner A10 (1x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 512MB | $33 |
| A20-OlinuXino-Micro | Allwinner A20 (2x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 1GB | $60 |
| Andromeda Box Edge | Marvell IAP140 (4x ARM @ 1.2Ghz) | 1GB | $75 |
| Arduino Yún Mini | Atheros AR9331 (1x MIPS24k @ 400Mhz) | 64MB | $60 |
| Arndale Octa | Samsung Exynos 5420 (4x ARM @ 1.8Ghz + 4x ARM @ 1.3Ghz) | 3GB | $199 |
| Banana Pi M2 | Allwinner A31 (4x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 1GB | $58 |
| Banana Pi M3 | Allwinner A83T (8x ARM @ 2Ghz) | 2GB | $88 |
| Banana Pro | Allwinner A20 (2x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 1GB | $48 |
| BeagleBone Black | TI Sitara AM3358 (1x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 512MB | $50 |
| BeagleBone Green | TI Sitara AM3358 (1x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 512MB | $39 |
| Chip | Allwinner R8 (1x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 512MB | $9 |
| ClearFog Pro | Marvell Armada 38x (1x or 2x ARM @ 1.3 or 1.6 Ghz) | 256MB to 2GB | $170 to $240 |
| CloudBit | Freescale i.MX233 (1x ARM9 @ 454Mhz) | 64MB RAM | $60 |
| Creator CI40 | Imagination CXT200 (2x MIPS @ 550Mhz) | 256MB | $53 to $120 |
| Cubieboard3 | Allwinner A20 (2x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 2GB | $75 to $86 |
| Cubieboard4 | Allwinner A80 (4x ARM @ 2Ghz + 4x ARM @ 1.3Ghz) | 2GB | $125 |
| Domino Pi Basic Kit | Atheros AR9331 (1x MIPS24k @ 400Mhz) | 64MB | $24 and up |
| DPT-Board | Atheros AR9331 (1x MIPS24k @ 400Mhz) | 64MB | $55 or $64 |
| DragonBoard 410c | Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (4x ARM @ 1.2Ghz) | 1GB | $75 |
| Edison Kit for Arduino | Intel "Tangier" Atom (2x x86 @ 500Mhz); Intel Quark | 1GB | $85 |
| Firefly FirePrime | Rockchip RK8128 (4x ARM @ 1.3Ghz) | 1GB | $70 |
| Firefly-RK3288 | Rockchip RK3288 (4x ARM @ 1.8Ghz) | 2GB or 4GB | $160 or $260 |
| Galileo Gen 2 | Intel Quark X1000 (1x x86 @ 400Mhz) | 256MB | $41 |
| Gizmo 2 | AMD G-Series GX210HA (2x x86 @ 1Ghz) | 1GB | $189 |
| HiKey | HiSilicon Kirin 6220 (8x ARM @ 2Ghz) | 1GB or 2GB | $99 |
| HummingBoard-Base/-Pro | Freescale i.MX6 (1x/2x/4x ARM @ up to 1.2Ghz) | 512MB to 2GB | $70 to $210 |
| HummingBoard-Edge | Freescale i.MX6 (1x/2x/4x ARM @ up to 1.2Ghz) | 512MB to 4GB | $102 to $252 |
| HummingBoard-Gate | Freescale i.MX6 (1x/2x/4x ARM @ up to 1.2Ghz) | 512MB to 4GB | $70 to $235 |
| Inforce 6410Plus | Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 (4x ARM @ 1.7Ghz) | 2GB | $143 |
| LeMaker Guitar | Actions S500 (4x ARM @ 1.6Ghz) | 1GB or 2GB | $45 |
| LinkIt Smart 7688 | MediaTek MT7688AN (1x MIPS @ 580Mhz) | 128MB | $13 or $16 |
| LinkSprite Acadia V3 | Freescale i.MX6 (4x ARM @ 1.2Ghz) | 1GB | $119 |
| LinkSprite Arches | Allwinner A80 (4x ARM @ 2Ghz + 4x ARM @ 1.3Ghz) | 2GB | $99 |
| MarsBoard AM335x | TI AM3358 (1x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 512MB | $75 |
| MarsBoard RK3066 | Rockchip RK3066 (2x ARM @ 1.6Ghz) | 1GB | $58 |
| MinnowBoard Max Turbot | Intel Atom E3826 (2x x86 @ 1.46Ghz) | 2GB | $140 |
| Odroid-C1+ | Amlogic S805 (4x ARM @ 1.5Ghz) | 1GB | $39 |
| Odroid-XU4 | Samsung Exynos5422 (4x ARM @ 2Ghz + 4x ARM @1.4Ghz) | 2GB | $74 |
| Orange Pi 2 / Pi Mini 2 | Allwinner H3 (4x ARM @ 1.6Ghz) | 1GB | $30 or $25 |
| Orange Pi PC | Allwinner H3 (4x ARM @ 1.6Ghz) | 1GB | $15 |
| Orange Pi Plus2 | Allwinner H3 (4x ARM @ 1.6Ghz) | 2GB | $49 |
| Parallella | Zilinx Zynq-7020/7010 (2x ARM @ 667Mhz + FPGA) | 1GB | $99 |
| pcDuino Lite/Lite WiFi | Allwinner A10 (1x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 256 or 512MB | $29 |
| pcDuino3 Nano / Nano Lite | Allwinner A20 (2x ARM @ 1Ghz | 1GB | $40 or $35 |
| pcDuino8 Uno | Allwinner H8 (8x ARAM @ 2Ghz) | 1GB | $49 |
| Pine A64 | Allwinner A64 (4x ARM @ 1.2Ghz) | 512MB to 2GB | $15 to $29 |
| PixiePro | Freescale i.MX6 (4x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 2GB | $130 |
| Radxa Rock Lite / Pro | Rockchip RK3188 (4x ARM @ 1.6Ghz) | 1GB or 2GB | $59 or $99 |
| Radxa Rock 2 Square | Rockchip RK3288 (4x ARM @ 1.6Ghz) | 2GB to 4GB | $129 |
| Raspberry Pi Model A+ | Broadcom BCM2835 (1x ARM @ 700Mhz) | 256MB | $20 |
| Raspberry Pi Model B+ | Broadcom BCM2835 (1x ARM @ 700Mhz) | 512MB | $25 |
| Raspberry Pi 2 Model B | Broadcom BCM2836 (4x ARM @ 900Mhz) | 1GB | $35 |
| Raspberry Pi Zero | Broadcom BCM2835 (1x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 512MB | $5 and up |
| Rico Board | TI AM437x (1x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 256MB to 1GB | $99 |
| RioTboard | Freescale i.MX6 (1x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 1GB | $79 |
| SAMA5D4 Xplained | Atmel SAMA5D4 (1x ARM @ 528Mhz) | 512MB | $94 |
| Snickerdoodle | Xilinx Zynq-7020/7010 (2x ARM @ 667Mhz + FPGA) | 512MB or 1GB | $62 and up |
| Udoo Neo (Basic) | Freescale i.MX6 (1x ARM @ 1Ghz) | 512MB or 1GB | $50 to $65 |
| Udoo Quad/Dual/Dual Basic | Freescale i.MX6 (2x/4x ARM @ 1Ghz) + Atmel ARM MCU | 1GB | $99 to $135 |
| USB Armory | Freescale i.MX53 (1x ARM @ 800Mhz) | 512MB | $130 up |
| Wandboard | Freescale i.MX6 (1x, 2x, or 4x ARM @1Ghz) | 512MB to 2GB | $79 to $129 |
| Z-turn Board | Xilinx Zynq-7010/7020 (2x ARM @ 667Mhz + FPGA) | 1GB | $99 or $119 |