I am not missing the point.  I believe you missed mine.

With regards to the CPU/GPU/FPU/PRU stuff, that is where OpenCL support plays in.  However, the overall power of the board is still behind many of the similar boards out there at a similar price or less.

As far as Cape support is concerned, that is another area that BB has an issue with since with any new OS support they tend to lose support for some supported Capes and it takes some effort to get them to work again, if at all.

PS. Oh did I forget to say the capes for the old BBB should work with this one (keeping my fingers crossed).

In my humble opinion, jomoenginer may be missing the point. The processing of images using the PowerVR SGX544 3D GPU and a Vivante GC320 2D graphics accelerator may not be the selling point or even a major consideration. In my view, these are the features to look at:

• 2x C66x FPU VLIW DSP
• 2x PRU-ICSS Dual Core Microprocessor
• 2x ARM Cortex-M4 Dual Core Processor

Why you ask? The reason lies with the expanded PRU resources for interrupt driven side tasks. The Cortex M4 for connecting the sensors and what not. The sad part here was not using the M4F variant to support floating point arithmetic dealing with ADC/DAC interfaces. The the unusual  part are the DSP's which TI has had much experience with. The tricky part of using the DSP's would be how much can be done at the C level for programming. Inline assembler probable intimidate many people. But I am game to try. Right now I am doing due diligence lining up the resources to consider what can be done.

Clem

I not sure if I agree that is still under development since there are plenty of Single Board Computers and dev kits that support OpenGL ES even OpenGL ES 3.0 and have for some time.  Perhaps it is a bit new for the newer boards like the RasPi and BBBs.   

As far as running something like Quake on a RasPi, I would think that is more of limitation of the board capabilities then support for OpenGL ES.  I ran Doom on a RasPi 4 and it seemed fine but certainly not like on a PC with a multiple core GPU.

I am not sure what a OpenGL instruction set is since OpenGL(ES) is an API.

OpenGL support on single board computers is still an area that's under development, Raspberry Pi has had to come a long way in the years it's been around to have the sufficient graphics support without relying on its binary blob and I think the open source driver is still working on its OpenGL instruction set Taken from my ad-hoc tests of trying to run Quake 3 on it at least!

> Despite all this, I may have to grab one just to see how it performs against the other devices I have on hand.

It'll be great to see what you find with it, I think with this board there's more the potential for parallel processing of different types of functionality.

I had seen this from the BeagleBoard email and really wanted to be excited about it, but after looking deeper I could only muster a half-hearted Yawn.  The use of a TI AM5729 Dual Core ARMCortex-A15 processor was a bit unfortunate and would have like to have seen perhaps a newer AM67 based processor considering the A-15 came out back in 2012. However the AM57 does offer the extra Video and Graphics Accelerators.  But, then again the dual-core PowerVR SGX544 3D GPU and a Vivante GC320 2D graphics accelerator only support OpenGL ES 2.x where the RasPi 4 supports OpenGL 3.0. Memory wise, the BB AI only has 1GB of RAM which will be a limitation especially when considering this is being marketed as a ML/AI focused device.  At least they put 16Gb eMMC on board and the four Embedded Vision Engines are a nice add and may help where the BB AI is lacking in other areas.

The $118.00 US price tag is a bit of an issue as well.  At that price I would have to question why get this over a NVIDIA Jetson Nano which has a ton more power.

Despite all this, I may have to grab one just to see how it performs against the other devices I have on hand.