New Orange Pi 5 a viable alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4 ...???

Can the new Orange Pi 5 nanocomputer be a viable alternative to the out-of-stock Raspberry Pi 4  ?

Orange Pi 5 Shows Boosted Performance and 32GB Support.

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Orange Pi, the Chinese supplier of open source hardware and software, has just announced the release of version 5

of its eponymous monoboards for nanocomputers. For this latest version, the company displays well in advance

the characteristics of its single board which would have been revised upwards with more performance and functionalities.

With the shortage problems that Raspberry Pi cards have been experiencing for a few years,

these Orange Pi cards could be an interesting alternative to Raspberry Pi.

But will it be able to convince users when we know that the Raspberry Pi reigns as the market leader ?

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To convince users with the Orange Pi 5, the company Orange Pi

has incorporated the following features into its product :

• Rockchip RK3588S processor with 8, 64-bit cores, 4 Cortex-A76 cores and 4 Cortex-A55 cores with a frequency of up to 2.4 GHz ;
• an integrated ARM Mali-G610 graphics processor ;
• an integrated 2D/3D image acceleration module ;
• 8K video encoding and decoding capability ;
• an integrated Neural network acceleration chip (NPU) with a computing power of 6 Tops ;
• support for 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB RAM (LPDDR4 or LPDDR4X) ;
• an HDMI 2.1 output ;
• GPIO interface ;
• one M.2 PCIe2.0 port ;
• support for NVMe SSD memories via the PCIe slot ;
• support for Wi-Fi6 + BT5.0 via the PCIe slot ;
• slot to accommodate TF cards ;
• type-C port ;
• Gigabit LAN port ;
• two USB2.0 ports ;
• USB3.0 port ;
• 26-pin connector ;
• And much more .

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However, another area where the Orange Pi 5 has the edge over the Raspberry Pi 4 is WiFi and memory support.

Indeed, on the Orange Pi 5, we have a WiFi 6.0 compatible module, while on the Raspberry Pi 4 we have WiFi 5.0.

Finally, it should be noted that version 4 of the Raspberry single board released in 2020 only supports 8 GB of memory

while that of Orange Pi goes up to 32 GB. However, on the Orange Pi site, version 32 is not yet available for purchase.

Speaking of purchasing, Shenzhen Xunlong Software Co., Ltd, the parent company of Orange Pi, lists the following prices on Aliexpress:

• the 4 GB version costs around 86 euros without shipping costs ;
• the 8 GB version costs around 103 euros without shipping costs ;
• the 16 GB version costs around 137 euros without shipping costs ;
• the 32 GB version is not yet listed on the site .

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