Now that you have seen some embedded boards, have you ever wondered what board to choose for your robotics project? Which board would have the perfect amount of power and capacity to run your application? All these questions can be answered using a simple test called a benchmark. Benchmarking or a benchmark is a test that is used to examine and judge the capabilities of such embedded boards. They're a group of tests that screen specific capabilities such as CPU clock speed, graphics, and memory.

Note that benchmarks do not give accurate results but give precise results that help us to understand specific aspects of SBC, as we mentioned earlier. There are a bunch of such benchmarks available online. You can see a few tests related to our projects here. We shall make use of the benchmark suites from PTS (http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/). The...