Apple silicon is the way to go. M1 & M2.

I doubt this post will be seen by enough people. But regardless I feel like it’s my duty to promote something when it’s this good. I have tried many different “lower cost” computers and graphics cards on my frigate journey. I have a google coral both usb and pcie. Nothing has been able to perform as good as my $300 second hand mac mini M1, and all this with no hardware acceleration. I’m running 7 1080p camera’s with no coral and no hardware acceleration flawlessly. And to top it off I’m running detection at 15fps. My interface speeds on cpu detection idle’s around 7ms and when the wind picks up and trees trigger detection on all 7 camera’s at once it peaks to around 15ms. I’m in awe, and I can’t recommend it enough to anyone looking for the best performing low power mini pc. You will not regret it.