News Raspberry Pi Alternative Offers Double The RAM For Less Money

[Admin]

The Orange Pi Zero 2W has been released as an alternative to the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with more RAM options and a lower cost.

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[Findecanor]

It might be worth mentioning that the Allwinner H618 has four ARM Cortex-A53 cores, like the Pi Zero 2 W.
The Pi is clocked at only 1 GHz though, but you can usually get sustained performance on SoCs like this only with active cooling anyway.

 

[usertests]

The 1.5 GB model is bizarre, but on the other hand it's triple what you get in any Pi Zero. A small upsell gets you to a nice 4 GB.

As always with Chinese knockoffs, or even ARM in general, the OS/support will be the biggest problem.

 

[edzieba]

There are plenty of 'Raspberry Pi alternatives' of various architectures that may be more or less 'cheaper' per-unit-performance (or memory, or IO, etc). The problem is that people aren't buying Raspberry Pis for performance, they're buying them for the extensive support, both knowledge (official and community) and 3rd party hardware. Whatever weird use-case you have, it's pretty likely there is a board that can drop right on top that does what you need, along with multiple tutorials on how to work with that board with minimal prior knowledge required.

 

[zintoki]

It's not only about RAM size. RPi Zero 2 has only archaic DDR2. Memory bandwith is crucial for iGPU and that is why RPi sucks even more.