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What about 3D acceleration; does it come with drivers which fully support OpenGL?

You said the magic word: drivers. There are already plenty of boards with superior hardware to the Raspberry Pi. But one of the Pi's advantages is its driver support. That support in itself is a function of the enormous community that has sprouted up around it.

So thats what remains to be seen: are the drivers going to be written/debugged to make all of that hardware play nice with each other.

Agreed, a while ago I tried one of the Orange pi boards for a mere $10. While you get a lot of bang for the buck, the support community for alternative boards is tiny. I spent quite a bit of time working out the kinks to get to similar utility of a raspberry out of the box.

I use a rk3288 Chromebook with Crouton. While I couldn't get GPU accelerated X under that environment I did manage to run some OpenCL demos, which is significantly more than I was expecting.

I'm not sure why Chipsets list their capabilities as being GLes only when they seem far more capable than Full OpenGL cards from years past, I would have thought that part would be down to drivers more than anything. What could a i740 do that the Mali760 can't?

Nothing. It's just that OpenGL drivers are incredibly complex. That same hardware supports DirectX 11 on Windows...

Another example is Mesa, where chips like the Raspberry Pi's VC4 and Adreno support desktop OpenGL because Mesa already has much of the plumbing in place, whereas the proprietary drivers only implement ES.

No definitive answer if the right drivers are bundled, but it's an rk3288, and this looks promising: http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/rk3288-devices/4...

RK3288 comes with an ARM Mali-T760 MP4 GPU

This, and the Mali driver is closed source, so if it doesn't do what you want, you're screwed.

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