So we've been digging into the firmware on the Myriad X as we implement more of the core of DepthAI and we just discovered a show-stopper that we didn't anticipate.

First, the bad news: We won't have the 5x increase in FPS that we were expecting compared to the NCS2 with the Raspberry Pi.  As of now we aren't sure what the framerate will be, but it's not looking good and could actually be slower than the NCS2, particularly when depth is enabled in addition to the neural inference.

Of course the platform still has the benefit of providing depth information, offloading the whole datapath from the main CPU, all of those advantages.

But it may actually have a disadvantage compared to the NCS2 in terms of framerate.  

We'll keep everyone posted as we learn more.  We'll be experimenting over the next ~2 months to see what the framerate is direct from image sensor, and see if it's better or worse than the 8FPS seen with NCS2 + MobileNet-SSD + Raspberry Pi 3B+.  We're of course hoping for better, but at this point we're unsure.

Best,

The Luxonis Team