Khadas VIM3 got 131,555 points, which is excellent, and the highest I’ve ever gotten in this type of board. For reference a fan cooled Rockchip RK3399 board achieved around 99,000 points. I’ll test temperature and CPU throttling into more details in Linux, but using an IR thermometer I measured up to 55°C only during benchmarks. Arm Cortex-A73 cores then look to be a better choice for this type of board, as they should have power efficiency gains of up to 20 percent over the Cortex-A72 cores found in Raspberry Pi 4’s Broadcom BCM2711 SoC.
For further comparison points, Amlogic A311D based on Khadas VIM3 also gets higher score than Snapdragon 660 based Xiaomi Mi A2 phone (111,353 points) and Mediatek Helio X27 deca-core processor found in Chuwi HiPad LTE tablet (103,217 points).
