The Most Powerful ARM SBC Is Here And It's Crazy Fast! RK3588 SOC Hands-On

The all-new RK3588 Blows the other SOC competition out of the water. This thing is really powerful and is capable of running 8K 60fps and 4k 120fps but that’s just the start!
Want to run Genshin impact, Pubg, COD mobile on a single board computer? The RK3588 can and also handles high-end emulation like Gamecube and Wii using the dolphin emulator, PS2 using AetherSX2, and PSP at 5X resolution! This board supports Android 12 and Ubuntu Linux we test both in this video.

00:00-Intro
00:15-Overview
01:54-Specs
03:17-Ubuntu RK3588
05:43-RK3588 Linux Gaming OpenMW
07:00-Android 12 RK3588
07:40-RK3588 4K Test
08:50-RK3588 Benchmarks, Geekbench,3dmark, ANTUTU
09:57-RK3588 Gaming Real Racing
10:26-PUBG RK3588
10:53-Genshin Impact RK3588
11:34-PSP 5X PPSSPP RK3588
12:12-Gamecube Wii Dolphin EMulator RK3588
12:53-PS2 AetherSX2 RK3588
13:31-Rockchip RK3588 First Impressions Android Linux

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[JeffGeerling]

I'm jealous, but looking forward to seeing what possibilities exist through that PCIe x4 slot; that's enough bandwidth for a decent external GPU, or much faster networking or storage.

[toxiccan]

I want to see Pine64 build a laptop with it. For about $400, they could make it a very nice alternative to Chromebooks for those of us who want a good battery life and fully FOSS device. I could see myself daily driving it for casual use.

[qbrt]

Absolutely LOVE the inclusion on OpenMW! Would love to see it added to the list of usuals when it comes to these tiny Linux machines

[wingchong]

Wow, it benched even higher than the Snapdragon 845. Can't wait to get one when a TV box comes with this chip. Cheer.

[wafdsjhnszfgdgjesawetr]

for those 600$ you can buy a better laptop

[bryantallen]

The Mali-G610 MP4 actually runs more like an MP8, because ARM doubled all of its thread counts, data path's, integer, FP32 cache ect, when compared to the ARM Mali-G78. But, don't count the G78 out. SOC's like Googles Tensor uses the MP20 20core variant and the Kirin 9000 uses the full MP24 setup. Both are rated over 2TFlops FPP32. Of course real world its more like 1.2TFlops sustained.

[turtleb]

MPV shows a ton of information by pressing i. Use shift+i to make it persistent. You can find out for example the bit rate and what decoder it is using (hwdec means GPU)

[IRWPD]

Have dreamed about have PS2 emulation running a SBC. Happy to see it's starting to happen.

[floppa]

Yes, YES finally. This seems really good for building a low power but high Performance home server. Denitily gonna cop me a board with this SoC once available.

[WickedGamerCollector]

Ow if we had this in a future Handheld that would be EPIC ! 😳

[trixniisama]

The RK3588 is so impressive, I'm looking forward to when it'll be broadly available, with stable drivers and better pricing ! It's definitely the "next gen" of SBCs !

[kinghoju]

What I'm looking for is a low cost device that can do smooth PS2 and Gamecube--this seems to fit the bill!

[bogackaynak]

It would be very nice to see reasonably priced proper arm desktop computers with proper Linux desktop operating system. Android is waste of time and it belongs to google. I hope both chip companies, as well as computer manufacturers, will dedicate enough resources to accelerate graphics properly in arm Linux desktop. In 2022, streaming and proper graphics acceleration are a must for desktops. Moreover, android is not the real "free" and correct platform to excel Linux on an arm desktop environment.

[donnanorth]

I am interested in high performance, and low power consumption mini computers for off grid use. I very much value the power specs you measure for us!

[AraceaeFanatics]

I'm just going to say, if I found birds eating my dragon fruit, I'd be mad as hell.

[mvanalst]

Honestly, this sounds too good to be true. For under $200, I would definitely pick one up.

[Phynix]

Please test windows 11 arm build, like on Odin pro. Flash that image on it, see if it works.

[SBarrenecheaF]

I've read that RK3588 doesn't have a compliant PCI-E port, so if they ever get it to work, it's very likely for it to have a huge performance penalty... Just to consider with this chip.

[aeonikus]

I wish you showed CPU/GPU usage monitor during 4k playback/gaming etc. Anyway, I've been eyeing this board since I saw in on their website. It's price is well, competitive if you want very fast ARM system. But for desktop probably going x86 for the same money would give you more... Still, great board, massive IO and great performing chip with low power usage. A way to go!

[holgerwikingsen]

HDMI IN? Does that mean you can capture the HDMI OUT signal in an perpetual loop?