Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Vs Orange Pi 5 plus 16GB. Ubuntu

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Single core 749
Multi core 1611
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Single core 827
Multi core 2936

[j.v.b.]

Linux 6.10 will have mainline kernel gpu support for rk3588 with the addition of the new panthor mali drm driver, which will make it work with the mesa panfrost opengl driver. It might be a good idea to compare the performance of that opengl driver when the 6.10 kernel is out.
Also vulkan support wise, panvk(wip mesa mali vulkan driver) is still being actively developed by collabora

[superkingytp]

As always, still today, the main problem of the orange pi 5 is the lack of software support. All of that power just wasted and it's such a shame

[CT-cxyi]

Nice comparison. I'm looking forward to seeing the Android video now. It would be helpful if the system background for the different devices were set to the manufacturers' logos for easier identification.

[erikkarsies]

Would have been interesting to also see a Intel N100 miniPC running Ubuntu next to it also, because prisewise they don't differ much.

[PradyotPachore]

Great video.. comparison is done great.. maybe orange pi is not meant for linux gaming.. pi 5 rocks! However was shocked to see yt performance on the orange pi ! Raspberry Pi can't beat that! Android gaming is better on orange pi I suppose.. can't wait for u to compare them too..

Thanks,
Great video,
Pradyot

[nakfan]

I really like that you chose non violent games for your demos 👍

[Rushil]

Board makers need to take better advantage of the work Collabora is doing on the Linux kernel for the Rk3588. Collabora’s images are only for the Rock5B but they’ve done great work in getting a ton of hardware functionality enabled and supported and the fact that Radxa (and others) are still only shipping boards and releasing OS images with kernel 5.10 kind of sucks.

[hi_pat_trick]

Here's hoping they get the mainline kernel up to the latest 6.x soon. Right now the Orange Pi 5 Plus is a bit too...tinkery for my taste to just crack it open and get it running. Would also love to see some usage / stats around the HDMI input and using OBS, as that's one of the desirable features on the OP5+.

[Breeffeehey]

So, I'm building a Laptop-Dock for DeX on my Samsung Z-Fold 5 with parts of old laptops I have laying around. I'm planning on having a Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB) as a second compute unit, when I am not using the Z-Fold (or using the Z-Fold somehow else...) for gaming (emulation, old and newish games), navigating and streaming the internet, do some work, the usual stuff... But I was wondering if there was other (better?) options than the Raspberry Pi 5, like the Orange Pi 5 (Pro?), or Banana Pi, or a mini-pc stripped down from it's case?
Thanks, and keep the good and interesting videos up!!

[noahheninger]

Isn't Rockchip getting new OpenGL drivers probably sometime in July?

[amitheahole.]

I've been waiting and skipping every raspberry pi video for months just waiting for a video about the orange pi, and finally here it is

[PiManiac]

RK3588 crushes the Pi 5 for PS2 Emulation (& most other systems I've tried.) The new RK3588 kernel only makes this lead even greater. (see my how good is RK3588 PS2 Emulation video for many examples that fail badly on Pi5) With ALL these ARM boards, you MUST know the Emulator and its settings in depth to get many working. Getting "The Getaway (@ 1080p) & Burnout 3" working on RK3588 took me days of testing.

[srvuk]

I've been testing this on the Orange Pi 5 today. YouTube 4k 60 playback is very good, with a fair few dropped frames at the start but very few from then on, as long as you don't move the mouse. WebGL Aquarium shows very impressive results. I was getting a locked 60fps with 1000 fish and 30fps with 5000. Even 10000 was still getting around 17. The inbuilt video player could not play most of the videos that I threw at it and also came up with repeated errors regarding a missing MP4 encoder. I hope that we can get a fully functioning Kodi soon. Lots more testing to do.
It was reported a couple of weeks or so back on CNXSoft that Vulkan will not come to the Orange Pi 5 in Linux until the end of the year, 2 years since it's introduction.

[terrydaktyllus]

It's incorrect to say that "RK3588 is not as well supported under Linux than Raspberry Pi".

RK3588 describes the SOC (System On a Chip) and is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A76 + quad-core ARM Cortex-A55.

The BCM2712 SOC on a Pi 5 is a quad core ARM Cortex-A76, ultimately similar architectures.

The fact is that a lot of performance is gained by having properly optimised kernels and the fact is that it's easier to build a distro that supports one or two Raspberry Pi models as opposed to many Orange Pi models - plus I suspect a lot more care and attention goes into building Raspberry Pi distros due to bigger communities than Orange Pi.

I have a Gentoo Linux build for the RPi 5 but not yet one for the OPi 5 - if and when I get two as identical as possible builds for both systems, that would be a good baseline to test on.

[JazzTechie]

Orange is super quick versus Rpi 5 until you start trying to do 3d hardware acceleration in video games, and that’s just because the software is still under development.

[RafaCoringaProducoes]

Lee video idea for late 2024: pi4 vs some risc v sbc like lichee pi 4a or others. Risc has problems but is on fire

[stonededge]

For gaming (especially PS2), you need to switch the GLES blobs. Panfork isn't performant in PS2 emulation.

[jasonwhite]

Man, I have been waiting for a true Raspberry pi 5 vs Orange pi 5 battle. It's almost like there is a Raspberry pi embargo on a head to head comparison unless the RP5 is favored. To date, no major youtuber has performed a true unbiased head to head PI 5 review and comparison to see which one is best from a hardware performance stand point. But it still may not be that fare because RPi has more software support.

[blurandomnumber]

youtube-wise, OPI5 does h264, h265 and VP9 in HW, whereas RPI5 does only h265 (HEVC) in HW, the rest in SW.

[j.v.b.]

RK3588 is also far more power efficient as it's on an 8nm node. Pi 5 on the other hand is on a 16nm node.