Is The New Orange Pi 5 Pro A Good Raspberry Pi 5 Alternative?

The Orange Pi 5 Pro is a new SBC from Orange Pi that is based on the Rockchip RK3588S SOC with an 8-core processor and 16GB of RAM. In this video, we find out whether it is a good alternative to the Raspberry Pi 5.

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0:00 Intro
0:32 Look Around The Board
3:38 Flashing The OS
4:10 First Boot
4:50 Testing Video Streaming
7:07 Sysbench CPU Benchmark
8:36 NVMe Speed Test
9:09 Power Consumption
9:33 Final Thoughts

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[BOSSTUFF-skoe]

This is a fantastic review, pointing out some very important limitations. Well done. One thing I’d like to see added is a set of benchmarks and 4k playback with effective active cooling installed. Thanks so much for the awesome review!

[erikkarsies]

It's about the same price on Amazon as the minimum price for a COMPLETE Minipc with a Intel N100 with 8 GB (or even 12Gb) DDR5 memory and a 256Gb SSD with windows 11 on it. That seems the better option if you don't need the GPIO pins and then still if you do need them ... there are USB - GPIO adapters or you can use an older Pi for that.

[hellsing]

N100 computer are way better for a similar price. Sbc must find a way to improve drastically

[ashtonwoodturnings]

Think i will stick with my N100 mini pc, thats loads more powerful than my raspberry pi 5

[erikkarsies]

The prices are way off in the video compared to the links in the description.

[adrianhendy]

It is mentioned quickly in this review but currently RK3588 boards are miles better under Android as full gpu acceleration is supported. 4K playback under Android, say using an Android TV build is excellent. As a TV box these perform very well....

[michaeldmorrison]

You can verify hardware acceleration in chrome by going to chrome://gpu and it will tell you, I bet if you used their OS distros if it would support hardware video decode. Nice to the point video though!

[songsan]

The new Orange Pi looks great. The downside for me is the lack of USB 3 ports and the NVME gen 2.

[kamertonaudiophileplayer]

I use the non pro version. It works fine and it's faster than RPi 5. It doesn't require any cooling. A problem is only software.

[ronny]

For me, the rPis are always welcome mini servers with a debian on it. loooks like the orange pi is a 100% replacement for it. I don't need gpu power, cpu power is just important in short peaks on some strong cores. will looking forward to get my hands on one 🙂often not so easy.

[dmckrk]

BTW, this board show that it's possible to put regular 2280 m.2 card on such small board. Raspberry claim that they could not do that because there is no room for that. Liars ;)

[ZaPirate]

waiting for mine to arrive. Thanks for the video.

[Zhaohoung]

Can you do another video that benchmark the wifi speed, how to install linux to the NVME, the case, fan and cooling performance for it? Thanks!

[TrinomCZ]

I see OrangePi 5 (all 4 variants) as very underrated. I personally have 5B and 5 plus and they can't compare to RPi 4. I'm honestly surprised, that you have the video playback issues. Those were common od RPi4, but I've never seen them on OPi5. I will need to retest the capability though, Youtube may have yet again changed their codec to something, which isn't HW accelerated.

[Andrew-rcvh]

The idea of USB-C is the connectors are a lot smaller so you can make the boards smaller and cheaper. They can be surface-mounted as well which is important in manufacturing because some of these big components with through hole connections need to be fitted by hand. I personally think these Pi boards are well over-priced. You can buy a complete computer for that money.

[qzorn]

Excellent OPi5 Pro video. Do you have a video on the OPi5 Pro GPIO pins with some sample code? Thank you.

[rgalik]

I'd rather ask whether Raspberry Pi 5 is any good as an alternative to RK3588/S boards (no)

[VeryUsMumblings]

Hi-definition video always needs some cooling in order to work smoothly. However, the audio jack and full-size HDMI ports are compelling reasons for me to want to try it. Bring back the proper audio jack! 😄

[Metrowhite]

how does the nvme speed on orange pi 5 pro compare to the nvme speed on orange pi 5 plus?

[gregspeakman]

Great vid. I can appreciate the the full size hdmi ports.