AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) vs Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)

FPGA / Versal coverage note: 1,243 rows come from the AMD Vitis AI 3.0/3.5 Model Zoo tables; 733 (59%) are image classification. Detection, segmentation and other workloads are thinner, and there is no LLM or speech data for these boards. All are vendor-published (grade D). FPGA / Versal overview.

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No like-for-like comparison yet: both have published results, but model size or batch differ. Treat the numbers below as indicative only.

	AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)
Best object detection	276 FPS D Older data (2023)	n/a
Power	15.00 W Module TDP, Module	n/a
Perf / W	18.38 FPS/W Module TDP, Module	n/a
Price	n/a	n/a
Workloads with data	4 of 7	1 of 7

Best published object detection result per platform. n/a = not published; never estimated.

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object detection

Only AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) has published object detection results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	33.60 FPS throughput (DPU only) · b=1	YOLOv8n-Ghost (Hard-Swish, xView3-SAR) INT8 (Vitis AI quantizer, power-of-two) · Vitis AI 3.5 VART, DPU inference only, 2 threads · nano (YOLO-n)	C	15.00 W Module TDP, Module, max of range 7.5-15 W reported in result source — Module TDP, Module, max of range 7.5-15 W	arXiv 2507.04842v2 (SAR vessel detection on Kria KV260), Table 6 2025-11-17 (published)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published object detection results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) yet.
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instance segmentation

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No published instance segmentation results for AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) or Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) yet.
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pose estimation

Only AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) has published pose estimation results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	352 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	pt_movenet_coco_192_192_0.5G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mobile-class CNN	D	15.00 W Module TDP, Module reported in result source — Module TDP, Module	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published pose estimation results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) yet.
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image classification

Only AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) has published image classification results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	214 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	pt_OFA-resnet50_imagenet_160_160_0.88_1.8G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mid-size CNN	D	15.00 W Module TDP, Module reported in result source — Module TDP, Module	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published image classification results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

semantic segmentation

Only AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) has published semantic segmentation results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	32.90 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	pt_SemanticFPN-mobilenetv2_cityscapes_512_1024_10G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mobile-class CNN	D	15.00 W Module TDP, Module reported in result source — Module TDP, Module	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published semantic segmentation results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

speech-to-text

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No published speech-to-text results for AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) or Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) yet.
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LLM generation

Only Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) has published LLM generation results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)	34.52 tok/s generation_throughput · b=1	llama3.1:8b Ollama default tag (4-bit unless tag says otherwise) · Ollama (geerlingguy/ollama-benchmark) · LLM 5–14B	C	unknown power not published not published	Jeff Geerling ai-benchmarks issue results (comments) 2025-11-10 (page last edited)

AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM):

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No published LLM generation results for AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) or Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

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