HWBench

Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) vs Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ with Hailo-8 accelerator mounted on a Raspberry Pi, angled view
Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ (Hailo-8). Photo: SparkFun Electronics, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host)Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)
Best object detection1036 FPS D
2026-10-15 (page last edited)
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Powern/an/a
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Pricen/an/a
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Best published object detection result per platform. n/a = not published; never estimated.

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object detection

Only Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) has published object detection results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host)1036 FPS
throughput · b=1
yolov8n
INT8 (Hailo quantized) · Hailo DFC v2.20.0 / HailoRT (model zoo) · nano (YOLO-n)
Dunknown power not published
not published
Hailo Model Zoo public models (Hailo-8)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

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 Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

instance segmentation

Only Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) has published instance segmentation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host)68.70 FPS
throughput · b=1
yolov5m_seg
INT8 (Hailo quantized) · Hailo DFC v2.20.0 / HailoRT (model zoo) · medium (YOLO-m)
Dunknown power not published
not published
Hailo Model Zoo public models (Hailo-8)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

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

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No published instance segmentation results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

pose estimation

Only Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) has published pose estimation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host)2126 FPS
throughput · b=1
mspn_regnetx_800mf
INT8 (Hailo quantized) · Hailo DFC v2.20.0 / HailoRT (model zoo) · mid-size CNN
Dunknown power not published
not published
Hailo Model Zoo public models (Hailo-8)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

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 Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

image classification

Only Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) has published image classification results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host)2597 FPS
throughput · b=1
mobilenet_v2_1.0
INT8 (Hailo quantized) · Hailo DFC v2.20.0 / HailoRT (model zoo) · mobile-class CNN
Dunknown power not published
not published
Hailo Model Zoo public models (Hailo-8)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

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 Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) 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 Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) has published semantic segmentation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host)42.60 FPS
throughput · b=1
fcn8_resnet_v1_18
INT8 (Hailo quantized) · Hailo DFC v2.20.0 / HailoRT (model zoo) · mid-size CNN
Dunknown power not published
not published
Hailo Model Zoo public models (Hailo-8)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

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 Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) 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

Only Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) has published speech-to-text results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host)51.40 FPS
throughput · b=1
whisper_base_5s_encoder
INT8 (Hailo quantized) · Hailo DFC v2.20.0 / HailoRT (model zoo) · Whisper base
Dunknown power not published
not published
Hailo Model Zoo public models (Hailo-8)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

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

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No published speech-to-text results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

LLM generation

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

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
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
Cunknown power not published
not published
Jeff Geerling ai-benchmarks issue results (comments)
2025-11-10 (page last edited)

Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host):

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No published LLM generation results for Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe, x86 host) 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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