Raspberry Pi is one of the most popular and cheapest single-board computers today but it will be challenged by Asus on its new Tinker Board which supports 4K video streaming. The newest single-board computer from the tech giant is rumored to open possibility for Netflix streaming. Find out the truth here and check on Tinker Board's high-performing specs!

Asus Tinker Board Provides Better Graphics than Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 3 offers a 64-bit Cortex A53 quad-core processor which is said to be higher than Asus Tinker Board's 1.8 GHz quad-core Arm Cortex A17 CPU that offers 32-bit instruction. However, when it comes to the GPU, Asus scores twice in the benchmarking site Geekbench ahead of Raspberry because the former's GPU Mali-T764 is more powerful than the latter's Broadcom VideoCore IV because of the hardware support for H.265 4K decoding higher than the traditional 1080 pixels resolution and almost at par to 3D performance, according to Ars Technica.

However, despite the fact that Asus Tinker Board supports 4K streaming, it has been cleared out that there is no chances to stream Netflix at least for now as the streaming service is only available in Intel Kaby Lake and Windows 10-based PCs. Nevertheless, Asus Tinker Board has advantage on some other aspects such as the Ethernet which uses gigabit, SDIO 3.0 support and built-in 802.11 Wi-Fi module that comes with swappable antennas, support for 192 kHz/24-bit audio, Bluetooth 4.0, four USB 2.0 Ports, microSD port and 40-pin internal header with 28 GPIO pins, according to PC Advisor.

Asus Tinker Board Has Higher Memory than Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 3 features 1GB of memory while Asus Tinker Boards doubled it up. When it comes to software, Asus Tinker Board supports Debian Linux and Kodi for the media player and loads the OS through an SD card similar to Raspberry Pi; however, Asus Tinker Board appears to a better option for consumers who wanted to stream 4K video in a mini PC.

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