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The Chinese company has launched a new single-board computer Orange Pi 5 Max, which can be considered as an alternative to the Raspberry Pi 5-the latest model of the legendary British single-board computer. The novelty has a more productive processor, memory and modern communication modules, support for NVMe SSD "out of the box", as well as a 3.5 mm audio output.
New Orange Pi Single Board
The Orange Pi 5 family of single-board minicomputers, developed by China's Shenzhen Xunlong, has been expanded with the new Orange Pi 5 Max model.
The novelty is made in the classic form factor, the fashion of which was set by the legendary Raspberry Pi back in the early 2010s. It has a number of important advantages over the Raspberry Pi 5 – the most modern representative of the line of British miniature computers, which will appear on the market in the fall of 2023.
In particular, the Chinese odnoplatnik is equipped with support for more high-performance network interfaces-wired 2.5 GbE Ethernet (one port) and wireless Wi-Fi 6E. In addition, the Orange Pi 5 Max has a connector for installing M expansion modules.2 – you can use it, for example, to connect a high-speed NVMe SSD solid-state drive (PCIe 3.0 bus) to a miniature computer.
The list of supported Pi 5 Max operating systems includes the proprietary Orange Pi OS (based on Android), the visual component of which was clearly influenced by Microsoft Windows 11, Linux-based Ubuntu, Debian, and Google Android 12, which also uses the Linux kernel.
Orange Pi 5 Max can be purchased on one of the Chinese retail marketplaces at a price starting from $95 (about 8.36 thousand rubles at the exchange rate of the Central Bank on July 18, 2024). The price tag depends on the total size of RAM on board the device. In the top configuration, a device with 16 GB of RAM will cost $125 (approximately 11 thousand rubles). According to the Liliputing portal, in the future we can expect a version with 4 GB RAM4 to appear on the market, which is likely to be cheaper than the basic 8 GB RAM, sold at a price of $95.
Flagship in the Orange Pi 5 line
With the introduction of the Pi 5 Max, the Orange Pi 5 family now has just four devices, including the Pi 5 Pro, Pi 5 Plus, and standard Pi 5.
All these single-board cards have similar characteristics in many ways, the main one being the processor used (more precisely, the system on a chip, or SoC). The" heart " of the line of computers is the Rockchip RK3588(S) chip, introduced in December 2021 and carrying four ARM Cortex-A76 cores with a frequency of up to 2.4 GHz and Cortex-A55 with a frequency of up to 1.8 GHz; an ARM Mali-G610 MP4 graphics chip; an AI accelerator (neural processor; NPU) with a performance of 6 TOPS. The letter S indicates slightly cheaper versions of RK3588, with support for a smaller number of peripherals. It is these chip variants that are equipped with the younger models of the Pi 5 family-in fact, the Pi 5 and Pi 5 Pro.
Compared to its counterparts, the Pi 5 Max stands out for support for the most modern wireless communication standards-Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. For comparison, the Pi 5 Pro has built-in Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 modules, while in the Pi 5 and Pi 5 Plus they are completely absent (external installation via M. 2 2242/2230 is allowed).
In addition, the novelty is the most compact device in the family among the instances equipped with support for the high-speed PCIe 3.0 interface (four lines – - the board dimensions are 89x57 mm. The presence of such, in addition to the Pi 5 Max, can only boast of the Pi 5 Plus, a much larger device (100x75 mm).
Finally, the flagship Orange Pi 5 Max, like the Pi 5 Pro, is equipped with LPDDR5 RAM, while the other two representatives of the family work with slower RAM based on LPDDR4/4X.
RPI 5 is better in everything except price
The latest, fifth generation of the famous Raspberry Pi by the British RPI Foundation was introduced at the end of September 2023-four years after RPI 4 was launched on the market.
The Raspberry Pi 5 is powered by the Broadcom BCM2712 chipset, which includes four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A76 processor cores clocked at up to 2.4 GHz. The device uses LPDDR4-4267 standard memory. The owner has access to Bluetooth 5.0 (BLE) and Wi-Fi 2.4/5 GHz communication interfaces, as well as one PCIe 2.0 line, but to connect fast peripherals, an adapter is required, which is not included in the basic package.
Thus, RPI 5 is inferior to Orange Pi 5 Max in almost all significant indicators: it has a more productive CPU in theory, supports NVMe SSD out of the box and more modern wireless communication standards.
It should also be noted that the developers of RPI 5 at one time decided to leave their brainchild without a 3.5 mm analog audio output, which could be useful when using a single board as a compact personal computer for connecting headphones or speakers.
The main disadvantages of the new product developed by Shenzhen Xunlong, which can be easily identified without even holding the board in your hands, include the retail price of the device-in comparison with the Raspberry Pi 5, of course. If sellers ask for $95 for the 8-GIGABYTE version of the Orange Pi 5 Max, then the recommended retail price set for the RPI 5 with the same RAM size is $80. On the popular Chinese trading platform, Russians can buy RPI 5 with 8 GB of RAM at a price of about 9.1 thousand rubles, including delivery, that is, for about $103.
New Orange Pi Single Board
The Orange Pi 5 family of single-board minicomputers, developed by China's Shenzhen Xunlong, has been expanded with the new Orange Pi 5 Max model.
The novelty is made in the classic form factor, the fashion of which was set by the legendary Raspberry Pi back in the early 2010s. It has a number of important advantages over the Raspberry Pi 5 – the most modern representative of the line of British miniature computers, which will appear on the market in the fall of 2023.
In particular, the Chinese odnoplatnik is equipped with support for more high-performance network interfaces-wired 2.5 GbE Ethernet (one port) and wireless Wi-Fi 6E. In addition, the Orange Pi 5 Max has a connector for installing M expansion modules.2 – you can use it, for example, to connect a high-speed NVMe SSD solid-state drive (PCIe 3.0 bus) to a miniature computer.
The list of supported Pi 5 Max operating systems includes the proprietary Orange Pi OS (based on Android), the visual component of which was clearly influenced by Microsoft Windows 11, Linux-based Ubuntu, Debian, and Google Android 12, which also uses the Linux kernel.
Orange Pi 5 Max can be purchased on one of the Chinese retail marketplaces at a price starting from $95 (about 8.36 thousand rubles at the exchange rate of the Central Bank on July 18, 2024). The price tag depends on the total size of RAM on board the device. In the top configuration, a device with 16 GB of RAM will cost $125 (approximately 11 thousand rubles). According to the Liliputing portal, in the future we can expect a version with 4 GB RAM4 to appear on the market, which is likely to be cheaper than the basic 8 GB RAM, sold at a price of $95.
Flagship in the Orange Pi 5 line
With the introduction of the Pi 5 Max, the Orange Pi 5 family now has just four devices, including the Pi 5 Pro, Pi 5 Plus, and standard Pi 5.
All these single-board cards have similar characteristics in many ways, the main one being the processor used (more precisely, the system on a chip, or SoC). The" heart " of the line of computers is the Rockchip RK3588(S) chip, introduced in December 2021 and carrying four ARM Cortex-A76 cores with a frequency of up to 2.4 GHz and Cortex-A55 with a frequency of up to 1.8 GHz; an ARM Mali-G610 MP4 graphics chip; an AI accelerator (neural processor; NPU) with a performance of 6 TOPS. The letter S indicates slightly cheaper versions of RK3588, with support for a smaller number of peripherals. It is these chip variants that are equipped with the younger models of the Pi 5 family-in fact, the Pi 5 and Pi 5 Pro.
Compared to its counterparts, the Pi 5 Max stands out for support for the most modern wireless communication standards-Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. For comparison, the Pi 5 Pro has built-in Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 modules, while in the Pi 5 and Pi 5 Plus they are completely absent (external installation via M. 2 2242/2230 is allowed).
In addition, the novelty is the most compact device in the family among the instances equipped with support for the high-speed PCIe 3.0 interface (four lines – - the board dimensions are 89x57 mm. The presence of such, in addition to the Pi 5 Max, can only boast of the Pi 5 Plus, a much larger device (100x75 mm).
Finally, the flagship Orange Pi 5 Max, like the Pi 5 Pro, is equipped with LPDDR5 RAM, while the other two representatives of the family work with slower RAM based on LPDDR4/4X.
RPI 5 is better in everything except price
The latest, fifth generation of the famous Raspberry Pi by the British RPI Foundation was introduced at the end of September 2023-four years after RPI 4 was launched on the market.
The Raspberry Pi 5 is powered by the Broadcom BCM2712 chipset, which includes four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A76 processor cores clocked at up to 2.4 GHz. The device uses LPDDR4-4267 standard memory. The owner has access to Bluetooth 5.0 (BLE) and Wi-Fi 2.4/5 GHz communication interfaces, as well as one PCIe 2.0 line, but to connect fast peripherals, an adapter is required, which is not included in the basic package.
Thus, RPI 5 is inferior to Orange Pi 5 Max in almost all significant indicators: it has a more productive CPU in theory, supports NVMe SSD out of the box and more modern wireless communication standards.
It should also be noted that the developers of RPI 5 at one time decided to leave their brainchild without a 3.5 mm analog audio output, which could be useful when using a single board as a compact personal computer for connecting headphones or speakers.
The main disadvantages of the new product developed by Shenzhen Xunlong, which can be easily identified without even holding the board in your hands, include the retail price of the device-in comparison with the Raspberry Pi 5, of course. If sellers ask for $95 for the 8-GIGABYTE version of the Orange Pi 5 Max, then the recommended retail price set for the RPI 5 with the same RAM size is $80. On the popular Chinese trading platform, Russians can buy RPI 5 with 8 GB of RAM at a price of about 9.1 thousand rubles, including delivery, that is, for about $103.
