News Raspberry Pi Alternative Orange Pi 5 Plus Brings RK3588 to the SBC Game

[Admin]

Orange Pi 5 is set to launch its latest SBC with a beefier RK3588 SoC and a plethora of RAM options

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[bit_user]

Excellent news!!

we have space for an NVMe 2280 SSD drive (the Orange Pi 5 has a 2242 slot) with speeds of up to 2,000 MB/s.

Uh, if the specs are really PCIe 3.0 x4, then it should be nearly 4 GB/s! Even if it were only 2 GB/s, that's still an order of magnitude faster than you can get with the Pi 4, and completely fine, considering the CPU speed (think Sandybridge i7-tier). In fact, in the Sandybridge days, you'd be happy just to get 0.5 GB/s from a SATA-3 SSD.

Operating system support boils down to Orange Pi OS, Ubuntu, Debian and Android 12.

I would recommend people take a good, long look at Armbian. It might not be officially supported, but it should have way better hardware support for things like the GPU and video decoder. I've run an officially-supported Ubuntu distro on an Amlogic-based SBC that's been around for 3-4 years, and it still doesn't have proper 3D or video decode support! And, unless Orange Pi OS is a fork of Armbian, I wouldn't count on it being much better.

Of course, Android should have the best support for its hardware, but Android is so locked-down these days, that it seems really unsuitable for most of the things people probably want to do on a device like this.

Wow! The real killer is the pricing:

"$109 for 8GB and $129 for 16GB"
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That's hardly more than the regular Orange Pi 5! If that's what it actually sells for, they really knocked this one out of the park!

Now, I just need to find a good case for it...

 

[SyCoREAPER]

Article correction, you listed 2280, that is one 100% 2230 based on the footprint and diagram.

I R Derpy McDerp Face.

 

[bit_user]

Article correction, you listed 2280, that is one 100% 2230 based on the footprint and diagram.

I think you're confusing the one on top with the one underneath. The top-side has a 2230, but there's a 2280 on the bottom. Check the source link at cnx-software.com, for more details:

https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/0...s-dual-hdmi-2-1-dual-2-5gbe-m-2-pcie-sockets/
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[SyCoREAPER]

I think you're confusing the one on top with the one underneath. The top-side has a 2230, but there's a 2280 on the bottom. Check the source link at cnx-software.com, for more details:

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https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/0...s-dual-hdmi-2-1-dual-2-5gbe-m-2-pcie-sockets/​

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I'll show myself out. I completely missed the one on the underside. Derp da derp derp 🤡

 

[webmatthew]

It is very impressive and optimized drivers are available on Armbian (Ubuntu build).