Though they produced various kinds of silicon chips, the ones we are interested in is the i.MX family. And it only really becomes interesting once they produce these as quad-cores, so if you will forgive me I wont even be writing about their mono and dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 based i.MX 7 series here, nope. We go straight to the quad models of the i.MX 6 series and later.
Freescale Semiconductor SOCs
Type | Fab | CPU Speed | GPU | GPU Speed | GPU SDKs | Applications | |
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i.MX6 Quad | Quad-core Cortex-A9 | 40 nm | 1200 MHz | Vivante GC2000+ Vivante GC320+ Vivante GC355 | 594 MHz | OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenVG 1.1, OpenCL 1.2, Direct3D 11 | CuBox-i4, HummingBoard-i4, Udoo-i4 |
i.MX6 QuadPlus | Quad-core Cortex-A9 | 40 nm | 1200 MHz | Vivante GC2000+ Vivante GC320+ Vivante GC355 | 720 MHz | OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenVG 1.1, OpenCL 1.2, Direct3D 11 | |
i.MX8 Quad | Quad-core Cortex-A53 | 28 nm | 1500 MHz | Dual-core Vivante GC7000Lite/XSVX | - | OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenVG 1.1, OpenCL 1.2, Direct3D 11 | CuBox Pulse, HummingBoard Pulse |
i.MX8 QuadPlus | One Cortex-A72 + Quad-core Cortex-A53 | 28 nm | 1200 MHz + 1800 MHz | Dual-core Vivante GC7000Lite/XSVX | - | OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenVG 1.1, OpenCL 1.2, Direct3D 11 | - |
i.MX8 QuadMax | Two Cortex-A72 + Quad-core Cortex-A53 | 28 nm | 1200 MHz + 1800 MHz | Dual-core Vivante GC7000/XSVX | 800 MHz | OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenVG 1.1, OpenCL 1.2, Direct3D 11 | - |
For those who do not believe a Freescale system is expensive:
compose your own HummingBoard Quad
Compose your own CuBox Quad
Buy a Udoo Quad