Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 Mini PC - Which Is Right For You

The real advantage of the N100 is compatibility. Some server software doesn't support Arm. Especially if you want to use OpnSense or PfSense.

9:13 - I think that hits the nail on the head. I see the resistors for indicating 1/2 GB of RAM on the board... I have to wonder if they're sitting on a 1 or 2 GB Pi 5 model that could be sold for $40 or $45. That would make the low-end Pi 5 a great option and bring back some of the price advantage if you don't need lots of RAM for projects, but want some of the speed or CSI/DSI lane performance of the Pi 5.

YouTube playback on a Pi 5 is not a software issue, it's a hardware issue. The Pi 5 has no hardware decoders for VP9, nor AV1. You can force YT fall back to h264 with the browser plugin h264ify.

I recently sold my new pi 5, it was my first experience with raspberry pi Ssd won't work i had to edit config files etx I bought firebat ak2 with n100 8gb ram for 90€ new and it works sooo good 👍🏻

Let's admit we outgrew RPi. Most got them for cheap tinker projects, maybe a small fraction used GPIO, but they are too limited. Hey, they are still pretty cool, like your first car, but now you know what you need and RPi came too little too late.

Excellent comparative review. Thank you.

Thanks! Great work! was looking for this.

Wow did not expect the CPU score to be so close. I would have thought higher CPU and a more mature CPU arch would have given Intel a bigger win.

The Pi's are great, early adopter starting with the original Pi model A, I have over a dozen Pi's running up to the 4 8G, as the Pi 5 has steadily grown out of the 'acceptable pi price range'. I love my Pi's but I've started buying N100 boards for computing and using more ESP32 microcontrollers for projects.

N100 is very good. Asrock N100M owner, poor pcie support in Linux kernel 6.69. Do not recommend N100M. Recommend N100.

Great comparison. If I was looking for something like this I would choose the N100 over the Pi5. I have an 8GB Pi4 for dabbling with I/O and simple gaming.

The comparison is quite well made, thank you.

Great share! Thanks! What do you think of the ZimaBlade 7700?

a good, balanced review. well done.

The DDR5 version of the N100 is up to 30% faster! The only scenario's that the Pi5 makes sense is if a SD card is sufficient and especially if you dont need much memory.

I have proxmox running on N100 which is mostly used for arr stack apps and jellyfin. It handles 1 video transcode 4k HDR to SDR or multiple without HDR or lower resolution. Good enough for me.

I have the T8 Firebat with ddr5 16gb 4800Mhz. In bios you set it to 4800Mhz and increase TDP from 15w stock to 30w. It cost less than the Pi5 mentioned here..Its faster at browsing than my 14900k on 1000mbit cat6. It must be something with the browser optimizing for this mini pc making browsing lightning fast. If you blink you wont see a new page loaded. The bios is pretty advanced so you can adjust how fast the cpu will ramp up its frequency. It also accepted undervolting so I can run turbo speeds for longer. The included copper heatpipe onboard is so much better than any of those poorly made you see on the Pi, and its included rofl. The network coverage isnt superb out of the box, but if you loosen the 1 of the 2 internal sticker wifi antennas inside it can become really good. I mounted each one in vertical plane and horizontal plane inside the housing. Since its just a sticker antenna it was an easy mod. (instead of both beeing parallell on top, I put one vertical on the sidewall). The best thing is that it just works, no insane hassle that some of the Android or Linux gives you.. I had one problem caused by win update, it reinstalled the wrong network driver so I had to redownload the correct one from Realtek site. Other than that it has been working fine.

I have 2 Peladn WI-4's, I have been running open media vault on one of them for over a year 24/7 and it's never missed a beat. The other one runs proxmox with 3 VM's (1 x MS Server 2022, Home Assistant and Pi-Hole) no problem, I would defo reccomend running these Mini PC's as they cost pennies per day.

Thanks for the video. I'm using an RPI Zero 2w to run Volumio, an RPI 3B+ to run LibreElec (Kodi) and an RPI 4 with 2 GB RAM to run Home Assistant. I'm using a Beelink N100 to dual boot Windows 11 Pro and Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. Life is good.

Regarding the performance on video playback i have the same situation when using firefox, but when using chromium it goes really smooth. Pi is not intended for "Power", but instead "Flexibility". The low power consumption, the header, and the different connectors with also the os support is where it really shines and still is just unbeatable, not being the first option as a general use computer, but the ability to be used as one is great.