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They are nice. Like a small PC. There's even a company making an (overpriced) mini-ITX compatible PC style motherboard with it. They even have an onboard neura

They are nice. Like a small PC. There's even a company making an (overpriced) mini-ITX compatible PC style motherboard with it. They even have an onboard neural network accelerator. Though I perused the "documentation" for it and the SDK and I can't see how a person who doesn't read Chinese could make use of it. If you look at people's Geekbench scores, they're actually really promising: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=RK3588 https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q... In multicore performance it's almost as fast as my AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H based Thinkpad. Waaaay faster than an RPi5.

nottorp 3y ago
I dont think they need to win in benchmarks to be usable. As long as the storage breaks the spi shackles and gets at least one.lousy.pice.lane.
- cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  Depends on your intended use. I'm evaluating for use as home lab servers. I'll try this one for NAS/Plex, and if it works well I will buy another to use as an (external) server. For that purpose, multicore CPU performance (and I/O) really matters. For typical things that people use Raspberry Pis for (turning blinking lights on and off with GPIO or whatever), yeah, not as relevant. Just have to figure out an enclosure for it. It'd be amazing to put a few of these in a 19" rackmount case. I'd try Eurorack but it sounds like the carrier board width is 116mm, which is too wide for the 100mm height of a Eurorack card.
  - nottorp 3y ago
    Whoa. I looked up the Orange Pi 5 Plus on my morning coffee. M.2 SSD and two 2.5 GbE ports! I can finally upgrade my router!
    - cmrdporcupine 3y ago
      There are other RK3588 boards more suited for that purpose, explicitly built with more ports and in a case, etc. e.g. https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=289 https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product... But I think I've seen others on AliExpress that had more ports, etc. But yeah, the Orange Pi would work fine.
      - nottorp 3y ago
        The one you linked has only emmc sadly. I want proper storage.
  - nottorp 3y ago
    I have a cool and quiet fetish. I’m extatic that my M2 Mac mini only uses at most 30 W and I’ve limited my x86 box in the bios to use at most 65 W.
    - cmrdporcupine 3y ago
      The M series CPUs are really a technological marvel. I had an M1 MBP for work for a job I had for a bit and it was amazing. It's really a shame that workstation-class ARM systems (or RISC-V, whatever) remain unavailable outside of the MacOS ecosystem.

nottorp 3y ago

I dont think they need to win in benchmarks to be usable. As long as the storage breaks the spi shackles and gets at least one.lousy.pice.lane.

cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Depends on your intended use. I'm evaluating for use as home lab servers. I'll try this one for NAS/Plex, and if it works well I will buy another to use as an (external) server. For that purpose, multicore CPU performance (and I/O) really matters. For typical things that people use Raspberry Pis for (turning blinking lights on and off with GPIO or whatever), yeah, not as relevant. Just have to figure out an enclosure for it. It'd be amazing to put a few of these in a 19" rackmount case. I'd try Eurorack but it sounds like the carrier board width is 116mm, which is too wide for the 100mm height of a Eurorack card.
- nottorp 3y ago
  Whoa. I looked up the Orange Pi 5 Plus on my morning coffee. M.2 SSD and two 2.5 GbE ports! I can finally upgrade my router!
  - cmrdporcupine 3y ago
    There are other RK3588 boards more suited for that purpose, explicitly built with more ports and in a case, etc. e.g. https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=289 https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product... But I think I've seen others on AliExpress that had more ports, etc. But yeah, the Orange Pi would work fine.
    - nottorp 3y ago
      The one you linked has only emmc sadly. I want proper storage.
- nottorp 3y ago
  I have a cool and quiet fetish. I’m extatic that my M2 Mac mini only uses at most 30 W and I’ve limited my x86 box in the bios to use at most 65 W.
  - cmrdporcupine 3y ago
    The M series CPUs are really a technological marvel. I had an M1 MBP for work for a job I had for a bit and it was amazing. It's really a shame that workstation-class ARM systems (or RISC-V, whatever) remain unavailable outside of the MacOS ecosystem.