Raspberry Pi 5 vs Zimablade Benchmark on Proxmox 8

testing the raspberry pi 5 up against a intel cpu zima blade.

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[LeonisYT]

Just wanted to say a lot of your proxmox videos as of late have been helping me a lot. Thank you so much 😊

[iblackfeathers]

the zimablade ships with an n3450 processor. your early release unit is a j3455 cpu as shown at 00:30. it will have different characteristics than what actually ships out now. it is also slower than what early reviewers got, which led to confusion what customers are getting.


also, the zimablade is an x86 processor. so that would work for stuff where an rpi cannot be used in its place.

[rodrigosmmiguel]

Love RPI's, have all them, except RPI 5. However, after switching to x86_64 N100 Mini PC (32GB/2TB nvme), also running Proxmox 24x7, I'm not switching back to RPI anytime soon.

[yerunski]

Probably not a big deal but I noticed both Proxmox versions were different. Personally I would like to update them both first to the same version before starting a benchmark.

[malkogindrat]

Thanks a lot for your videos and the comparison. I guess it is difficult to have the same version of kernel, proxmox and such but it gives a good shot on what to expect. I have like 3x RPI5 with FLIRC + 4TB nvme (pimoroni)+ 4TB SSD running plex (HD), "*aar" dockers, as offline routers, OS with kde plasma, all for tinkering and I think the speed is on the lower but acceptable side. In general I only use my main server to run serious VMs, never PIs or NUCs. But I still ordered a Zimablade as backup NAS server using the 2SATA ports or for tinkering with GPUs. I think the Zimablade looks cool.

[vng]

Can you try running the benchmarks on a non-GUI VM? The lack of a passthrough GPU to the VMs means some of the CPU power is being used to do the rendering of the desktop environment.
Of course, running the benchmark on the host itself would also be a good way to compare.

[yirdnayisark]

Cool comparative. I would like more video about proxmox and raspberry pi5. Thank you.

[HiltonT]

The CPUs in the Zima devices are ancient - they really need to update to something modern like the N-series CPUs.

[paulmaydaynight]

the celeron doesnt actully have avx so it's a fair comparison.
i wonder what the orange pi etc with more cores & ram would compare to pi5 -if you can actually install proxmox on them too- they are pcie2.1 x1 I think compared to the pi4/5 pcie2.0 x1.

oc the limits of pi5 will limit it especially the unmodified pcie2 2.24Gb/s to pcie3 modified 3.13Gb/s :421MB a limitation of the pi5 pseudo pcie3 implementation writes... so the celeron still wins here but for low power proxmox it's getting there if they can finally add a proper specced pcie3 x8 microcode HW block in future arm soc's you can buy.
as it stands the pi5 is now good enough for use as a real 2.5Gb/s 5 drive bay NAS & light proxmox tasks -at the same time-

[c-LAW]

RaspberryPI 's are very sweet. I have zero disappointments with the PiZero and Pi4's . Whereas I had a mini PC with Intel, 6 cores, 6gb Memory -- very slow.

[kev-zs]

Can you power the zimablade from a atx 12v psu?

[KIDPROSOLU]

Hey bros... One question. Does this zima board boost proscessor to 2.5????

[mpsii]

isn't this an ARM vs Intel comparison more than a platform comparison?

[Makumbi]

Intel vs Arm.
Not fair.
Same reason you don't compare macs and pcs
Or iphones and any Android

The versions of proxmox aren't even the same.
Proxmox for arm isn't the same as proxmox Intel.

At the end of the day, what are you comparing?