Monday 10 June 2013

Testing computation power of RPi

To test computation power of computer we can we it for do some smart computation then verify it's speed. 
There is one other way to do that we know that video rendering and display takes lots of computation power and to test computer for its speed we can simply run some very heavy game or video. 
Instead of getting into programming and keeping time I tried running 1080p video on RPi. 6.34 GB size movie the matrix. 
Just to give you hint how much computation it did I will calculate bytes calculated per sec. 
Movie is 136min long that is 8160sec. 
6.34 GB is 6492 MB and after dividing by seconds it gives
0.795588 MB that is 815.68KB of content is processed per second that's too much as compared to RPi's capacity. 
6,673,876 operations per second, sounds amazing isn't it??

RPi is optimized with its GPU to perform very well with high graphical demand or fast computations. Because robotics needs lots of operations and very high speed. This GPU can be used to fast robotics computations or to watch 1080p HD videos. :)
Enjoy. Have a nice day.