Orange Pi 5 Plus 16GB: Rockchip RK3588 8 Core 64 Bit, 2.4GHz, Wi-Fi 6, 2x HDMI, 2x Ethernet 2.5G, USB 3.0, 2.0 and USB-C (Power)

Not sure how much I trust the OS that is intended for this, but I use dietpi and it's the best SBC server I have by a wide margin Went to buy another to replace an aging pi but unfortunately the price drove me away (ram shrotage making everything expensive) - went with a pi 5 but this thing still beats the hell out of it for cheaper (I got the 16 GB RAM one for $152 a year or so ago) Runs so fast I forget it's a little machine when I'm remoted in - even though I'm running a hefty gnome desktop environment on it Love that you get pcie 4.0 performance from the integrated SSD slot, even the pi 5 runs pcie 2.0 or so - and you need to buy an extra part for that For dietpi at least there is some steps you have to do to boot from the m2 SSD instead of the microsd (which you should do for speed reasons) but it is definitely worth it Love this thing!! It's a powerhouse

La placa me parece de buena calidad, funciona sin problema con armbian y en términos generales a superado mis espectativas. Pero en su sitio oficial SO no son buenos.

This thing is untouchable when it comes to price vs value. The only other boards that can do HVEC encoding and comes with an HDMI input are 2-4x the cost like the Jetson line, and/or come with stuff you don’t need. This is perfect for the use case of in the field encoding, like a IRL streamer box. I use it to stream multiple RTMP cameras wirelessly to the Orange Pi, where it encodes them and streams it to Youtube. It does so flawlessly. If you bought one of this custom IRL streaming devices you’ll be paying 3x the price of this for less powerful hardware Literally only downside is weak support for images. All that exists is a bunch of weird forks (some unsigned blobs sitting on a random google drive). I’d suggest you use the custom Ubuntu image as it’s on Github so you can at least build it and fork it yourself.

Installation of the os was strait forward. Keep note that you will need to try the best os with bug fixes to ensure all features of the orange pi are functioning. But you will not have to look long. This speedy little SBC is fast and is potentually faster than most alternatives of the raspberry.

Running orange pi os: arch Linux it’s works for most part. Plays1080p video without a problem but 4k and up absolutely not. Too many frame dropped. I don’t understand how they can advertise 8k but can’t even play 4k video on Orange PI OS.