[Detector Support]: Just got OpenVino capable N100. Any reason to keep using Coral? OpenVino vs Coral?

[rhatguy]

I recently purchased an N100 mini PC from Amazon. The N100 has Intel UHD 730 GPU. I've set frigate up running inside docker on Ubuntu 22.04 along with using OpenVino for detection. I'm running the newest Frigate .14 beta and the detector CPU graph shows usage usually less than 12% (I'm guessing this is averaged and there are probably spikes higher than that), and total CPU utilization hovers around 25%-30% (with 6 * 4k cameras with 720p detect streams). Initial impressions seem like OV is working great.

I also have a Coral that I previously used with a Raspberry PI 4 that I have not plugged into the N100 yet.

My question is, is there any advantage of using the Coral as opposed to the N100 GPU for detection? I understand the Coral is very efficient and would take workload off of the CPU, but this machine will be solely used for Frigate so as long as it works, I don't really care how loaded the CPU is. Is the Coral any better/worse at detection? Any other reasons to use Coral over OpenVino that I'm missing?

Version

0.14.0-bccffe6

Operating system

Debian

Install method

Docker Compose

Coral version

CPU (no coral)

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[NickM-27]

you might have a tad lower power usage with the coral. Quality of detection comes down to the model that is run not the hardware itself