I rarely watch YouTube videos, so I don't know what they said but here are some general differences:
1. ODROID-C1 clocks its Cortex-A5 CPUs at 1.5GHz. RasPi 2 clocks its Cortex-A7 cores at 900 MHz. While the A7 is a little faster than the A5, the C1 wins overall.
2. Both SoCs have 512KB level-2 cache shared by the four cores. Each ODROID-C1 core has 32KB level-1 instruction and data caches. I don't know what RasPi 2 has.
3. RasPi has an ordinary SD card, which should go up to Class 10. ODROID-C1 allows Class 10 and UHS-1, which is faster. ODROID-C1 also has an eMMC option, which is even faster. So if your application is limited by mass storage performance, ODROID-C1 wins.
4. RasPi does 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet using its USB hub chip. ODROID-C1 has a dedicated 10/100/1G Ethernet port, so if your application is limited by Ethernet performance, ODROID-C1 wins by a wide margin.
I've been using ODROID-C1 as my primary computer for a couple weeks now and it works very well. There were some initial hiccups, mostly solved or worked around. I'm still having trouble with lost or repeated keystrokes and mouse clicks, but I think I can fix it when the cable I've ordered arrives. These sorts of issues are usually present with a new board -- we saw them with BeagleBoard and Raspberry Pi when they first came out. Part of the learning experience and part of the fun, n'est-ce pas?
I rarely watch YouTube videos, so I don't know what they said but here are some general differences:
1. ODROID-C1 clocks its Cortex-A5 CPUs at 1.5GHz. RasPi 2 clocks its Cortex-A7 cores at 900 MHz. While the A7 is a little faster than the A5, the C1 wins overall.
2. Both SoCs have 512KB level-2 cache shared by the four cores. Each ODROID-C1 core has 32KB level-1 instruction and data caches. I don't know what RasPi 2 has.
3. RasPi has an ordinary SD card, which should go up to Class 10. ODROID-C1 allows Class 10 and UHS-1, which is faster. ODROID-C1 also has an eMMC option, which is even faster. So if your application is limited by mass storage performance, ODROID-C1 wins.
4. RasPi does 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet using its USB hub chip. ODROID-C1 has a dedicated 10/100/1G Ethernet port, so if your application is limited by Ethernet performance, ODROID-C1 wins by a wide margin.
I've been using ODROID-C1 as my primary computer for a couple weeks now and it works very well. There were some initial hiccups, mostly solved or worked around. I'm still having trouble with lost or repeated keystrokes and mouse clicks, but I think I can fix it when the cable I've ordered arrives. These sorts of issues are usually present with a new board -- we saw them with BeagleBoard and Raspberry Pi when they first came out. Part of the learning experience and part of the fun, n'est-ce pas?
Yes, I fully agree. The odroid is fine. The only thing that is worse is the community is rather smaller than the raspi one. But the support seems to be good. So it is nothing for people who like "working-out-of-the-box-solutions". You need some skills with linux and single-board computers to have fun with it. But it has sureley a wider range of possibilities than the new Raspi-board.
