Edge AI projects rarely fail on the model — they fail on thermal design and I/O bandwidth. Before comparing TOPS numbers, write down three things: frame rate, number of concurrent streams, and the ambient temperature at the installation point.
6 TOPS covers most single-stream vision
People counting, PPE detection and licence-plate recognition run comfortably on a 6 TOPS part. The G7-RK3576S handles two 1080p streams at 25 fps in a fanless chassis below 45 °C ambient.
When to step up
Multi-camera analytics, pose estimation and on-device LLM inference want 20 TOPS or more. The G6-F1-RK3588 gives you that headroom; for embedded builds the RK3588 board drops straight into a custom enclosure.
Not sure? Send us the model file and target fps — we will benchmark it on the actual hardware and share the numbers.