Relative CPU performance?

This is purely my guess from the uarch and specs. I won’t have physical access to a board until mine ships…

Running at 1.5 GHz the CPU should be a bit better than Raspberry Pi 3/3+ (and half as fast as a Pi 4) and something similar to a maybe 1 GHz Pentium 3 or PPC G4 from around 2000.
However the DDR4 RAM and the ability to use very fast and up to date M.2 SSD and high end GPU such as the RX580 SiFive have been demonstrating it with should mean the overall experience for interactive use is far better than those systems.

I’d guess for things such as web browsing, editing code, word processing and spreadsheets etc the overall experience would probably be similar to somewhere in the Core 2 Duo range (original MacBook Air, for example) – better for some things, worse for others.

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