BeagleBone Black as alternative to Raspberry Pi

Happened to have an opportunity to try a BeagleBone Black in a work application (worker timestation).  Turns out that the performance web browsing is MUCH faster than the Raspberry Pi.  Web pages are loading and rendering 2-3 times faster than the Raspberry Pi in the Chromium web browser.


I don't know that it will be a speed demon for floating point operations or graphically intensive applications, but certainly something to consider in your tool belt for certain applications that need a little more speed.


Some benchmarking to consider:

http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/benchmarking-beaglebone-black-single-board-computer/

http://www.davidhunt.ie/raspberry-pi-beaglebone-black-intel-edison-benchmarked/

https://learn.adafruit.com/embedded-linux-board-comparison/performance

http://gleenders.blogspot.com/2014/07/beaglebone-black-rev-b-benchmarks.html