Hardkernel Odroid N2 Review and benchmarks

I recently received from Hardkernel an Odroid N2 SBC. A new board replacing the previous N1 that got cancelled. I got the Odroid N2 board, power supply, the clear case, WiFi USB adapter and a 32GB eMMC card (eMMC is way faster than SD cards).

The nice thing about the N2 is that is uses a different SOC, an Amlogic S922X, giving a new perspective compared to most RK3399 top-end boards we see these days.

Some board specs:

• Hexa-core Amlogic S922X CPU with quad ARM Cortex-A73 and dual Cortex-A53 cores
• 4GB DDR4 RAM
• 1Gbps Ethernet
• 4 USB 3.0 ports (USB 3.0 hub behind a single USB 3.0 port from the SOC)

More details can be seen here.

My tests are always focused on server and console workloads. There are lots of benchmarks on Youtube and other blogs running games on Android or Linux desktop.

Now with latest features from Docker where you can build ARM images as easy as for x86 as I wrote here, there is almost no drawbacks to use an ARM SBC for your server needs.