HWBench

Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) vs Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)

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

Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)
Best object detection66.21 FPS D
2026-09-11 (page last edited)
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Powern/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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) has published object detection results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)25.81 FPS
inference_time · b=1
torchvision_ssdlite320_mobilenet_v3_large
INT8 (VNNX) · VectorBlox SDK (VNNX), no compression · mobile-class CNN
Dunknown power not published
not published
Microchip VectorBlox SDK tutorial metrics
2026-09-11 (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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) 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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) has published instance segmentation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)14.13 FPS
inference_time · b=1
yolov8n-seg
INT8 (VNNX) · VectorBlox SDK (VNNX), no compression · nano (YOLO-n)
Dunknown power not published
not published
Microchip VectorBlox SDK tutorial metrics
2026-09-11 (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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) 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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) has published pose estimation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)64.49 FPS
inference_time · b=1
yolov8n_pose_50s_25p_512x288_split
INT8 (VNNX) · VectorBlox SDK (VNNX), unstructured compression · nano (YOLO-n)
Dunknown power not published
not published
Microchip VectorBlox SDK tutorial metrics
2026-09-11 (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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) 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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) has published image classification results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)68.35 FPS
inference_time · b=1
resnet18_86s_07p
INT8 (VNNX) · VectorBlox SDK (VNNX), unstructured compression · mid-size CNN
Dunknown power not published
not published
Microchip VectorBlox SDK tutorial metrics
2026-09-11 (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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) 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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) has published semantic segmentation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)3.88 FPS
inference_time · b=1
deeplabv3
INT8 (VNNX) · VectorBlox SDK (VNNX), no compression · mid-size CNN
Dunknown power not published
not published
Microchip VectorBlox SDK tutorial metrics
2026-09-11 (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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) 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 Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) 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.

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)

Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox):

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No published LLM generation results for Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) 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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