ODROID-XU4 vs ODROID C2 vs Raspberry Pi 3

[MarcDK]

Hi,

since Recalbox now officially supports ORDROID I wonder if an ODROID XU4 or C2 will massively improve Dreamcast and N64 emulation speed. Will one of the ODROIDs run Soul Calibur or Sonic Adventure 2 with full speed? (60 fps solid)?

And what about Dolphin support? Will an ODROID make Dolphin (Wii, GC) emulation possible in the future?

Or is the hardware better but the software is not as optimized as for the pi and there is no gain from changing the platform?

[rockaddicted]

https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Board-Compatibility-(EN)
you can check the board compatibility list

[RustyMG]

@rockaddicted That link mentions c64 support across the board on 4.1 - I thought c64 emulation was pulled?

[rockaddicted]

@rustymg we never said that, that was your conclude...

[RustyMG]

@rockaddicted Erm, yes- that's why I said "I thought", lol.
It was just so I knew it it was worth updating to be honest, as my 4.1 unstable is fine and has never gave me any problems.
Fantastic news if the c64 emu now finally works as it should.

You DO know what someone IS going to ask before the week is out?
When is 4.2 due lol

[lackyluuk]

@MarcDK AFAIK the emulation of DreamCast & N64 should be (much) better on a Odroid XU4. My next investment will be one, I think

But, never forget that the hardware can be the best in the world, the N64 will (at the moment) never be like om the original N64 due to the emulation software.

[Substring]

As I own the 3 of them, what I can say is that the pi3 has the best integration, but is not the most powerful.

XU4 lacks moonlight and hardware video decoding

C2 has everything but dreamcast as the dynarec is not ok for arm 64bits

Both C2 and XU4 are powerful boards.

[MarcDK]

Thank you very much for your hands on experience. I will get one later this year and make a comparison.

[patriccote]

@Substring I'm thinking about buying a Odroid since it have more power for N64 and Dreamcast. The problem is that I use Kodi heavily for my home entertainment center and :

• C2 seems to have problem with Dreamcast ? (not playable ? slow as a PI3 but playable ?)
• XU4 doesn't have hardware video decoding

My questions :

• XU4 : Even without hardware video decoding, will I be able to play a 12-15 Giga-bytes movie in 1080p and DTS-7.1 ?

Thanks !

patriccote

[Substring]

@patriccote well ...
the C2 can't play reicast because the assembly part of the dynarec is written for ARM, not ARM64.

Regarding the XU4 + Kodi, i'll try to test and report

[patriccote]

@Substring As I can see, nothing's perfect =(

• Does reicast might eventually works on a C2 or is it impossible because of hardware limitation ? Is it possible in a year or two to see reicast support for ODROID C2 ?

• Anybody else intensively using an Odroid XU4 with Kodi ? Are you able to play 1080p big file (10-15 Gigabytes) with DTS 5.1 - 7.1 without slowdown ?

Thanks !

patriccote

[Substring]

@patriccote As you may not have understood, the reicast stuff for the C2 is something quite complex as assembly is the CPU language. One should translate ARM assembly to ARM64 assembly, this is no fun.

[patriccote]

@Substring that is why my question was : "is it an hardware limitation or not ?" The answer seems to be no ... BUT ! ... I understand now that the task is huge and will surely never be done (I won't hold my breath on that one

To anyone else (including Substring of course =), if you have update on the performance of ODROID-XU4 and Kodi, I will gladly appreciate before buying on of them !!!

Thanks !

patriccote

[Substring]

@patriccote maybe @Dragu or @abunille can report their exprience here

[abunille]

@substring @patriccote

I will make a test this weekend with my 5.1, before unfortunately impossible.

[Backpaddle]

Hello, first pls be patient with my grammar, im from Germany and my school english is not the best in this case. i plan to buy a XU4 and i only need it to emulate SNES, PSX, PSP, N64 and Dreamcast. My question is, how its about NDS? Atm i have a RPI3 and the most things run ok for me, but N64, PSP and Dreamcast have not so good fps. Will the XU4 help me on this point or in a short question does the XU4 worth it?

[Substring]

@backpaddle said in ODROID-XU4 vs ODROID C2 vs Raspberry Pi 3:

Will the XU4 help me on this point or in a short question does the XU4 worth it?

oh yeah ! It's the most powerful board we've ported recalbox to.

[Substring]

@patriccote quickly tested a 1080p mkv, worked fine.

[Backpaddle]

@substring thank you for the fast answer, helps me a lot

[Substring]

@backpaddle now i haven't tested the XU4 in every possible bench, but from my short experience, it runs pretty fine