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Orange Pi 5 Plus 16GB LPDDR4/4x Rockchip RK3588 8-Core 64-Bit Single Board Computer with eMMC Socket, Development Board Run Orange Pi/Ubuntu/Debian/Android 12 OS (Pi 5 Plus 16G)

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  • 🍊[High Performance]: Orange Pi 5 Plus signal board computer uses Rockchip RK3588 8-core 64-bit processor, quad-core A76+quad-core A55, with 8nm process design. 4GB/8GB/16GB LPDDR4/4x RAM memory and support eMMC socket which can be connected with 16GB/32GB/64GB/128GB/256GB eMMC module(NO Include). Main frequency up to 2.4GHz and up to 8K display processing capability.
  • 🍊[Abuandent Interfaces]: Orange Pi 5 Plus development board provides abundant interfaces, including 2*HDMl output ports, 1*HDMl input port , 2*PCIe extended 2.5G Ethernet ports, 1*M.2 M-Key slot (supports installation of NVMe SSDs), and 1*M.2 E-Key slot (supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth modules). In addition, Orange Pi 5 Plus has 2*USB 3.0, 2*USB 2.0, and 2*Type-C (one of which is a power connector).
  • 🍊[8K Video Codes Support]: Orange Pi 5 Plus up to supports 8-core CPU and 8K@60Hz video decoding , the powerful video codec allows for clearer images and more detailed picture quality which greatly improves the user gaming experience.
  • 🍊[Support Open Source]: Orange Pi 5 Plus single board computer can build computer, wireless server, games, music sounds, video and speaker. The Orange Pi 5 Plus development board can run Orange Pi OS(Droid)/Ubuntu/Debian/Armbian/Linux/Android 12 OS.
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3.93.9 out of 5 stars17
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  • orange pi 5 plus

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    Orange Pi 5 Plus Hardware Parameters

    CPU Rockchip RK3588 8-core 64-bit processor • 4 x Cortex-A76(2.4GHz), 4 x Cortex-A55(1.8GHz)
    GPU • Arm Mali-G610 • Built-in 3D GPU • Compatible with OpenGL ES1.1/2.0/3.2, OpenCL 2.2 and Vulkan 1.2
    RAM 4GB/8GB/16GB （LPDDR4/4x）
    Memory eMMC socket: 16GB/32GB/64GB/128GB/256GB eMMC module can be attached
    Video • 2x HDMI 2.1 out up to 8k@60FPS • 1x Type-C with DP TX 1.4A，up to 8K@30FPS • 1x HDMI in with up to 4K@60FPS • 1 x MIPI DSI TX 4 Lane，up to 4K @60Hz
    Camera • 1XMIPI CSI 4 Lane
    Audio CODEC:ES8388 • 1xAudio 3.5mm jack with mic • 1xMIC In • 1xHDMI 2.1 eARC • 1xSPK
    Ethernet 2xPCIe 2.5G LAN（RTL8125BG)
    PCIe M.2 M-KEY Socket Supports NVMe SSD
    PCIe M.2 E-KEY Socket Supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 modules
    Expansion Port 40Pin dual row pins with the following multiplexing functions: UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, I2S, PDM, AUDDSM, SDIO, PWM, GPIO
    Power Source Support Type-C power supply, 5V@4A
    FAN 5V Cooling FAN
    Supported OS Orangepi OS（Droid）、Orangepi OS（Arch）、Ubuntu22.04、Debian11、Android12
    Dimension 100mm * 75mm
    Weight 86.5g
    8K 效果图

    8K video codec for clearer images

    Up to support 8K @ 60fps, the powerful video codec allows for clearer images and more detailed picture quality.

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    CPU Allwinner H616 Allwinner H6 Rockchip RK3399 Rockchip RK3588S Rockchip RK3588S
    CPU architecture Cortex-A53 Cortex-A53 Cortex-A72+Cortex-A53 Cortex-A76+Cortex-A55 Cortex-A76+Cortex-A55
    RAM 512MB/1GB DDR3 2GB LPDDR3 3GB/4GB LPDDR4 4GB/8GB/16GB/ 32GB （LPDDR4/4x） 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB （LPDDR4/4x）
    Onboard Storage NO 8GB EMMC Flash 16GB EMMC Flash NO 32GB/64GB/128GB/256GB eMMC Flash
    WiFi Support IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Support IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Support IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, 2T2R NO 2T2R 802.11 ax/ac/a/b/g/n
    Bluetooth 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0
    USB 3*USB 2.0 2*USB 2.0+1*USB 3.0 2*USB2.0+1*USB3.0 +1*USB3.0 Type-C 2*USB2.0+1*USB3.0 +1*USB3.0 Type-C 2*USB 2.0 +1*USB3.0 +1*USB 3.0 Type-C

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    Customer reviews

    3.9 out of 5 stars
    3.9 out of 5
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    Customers say

    Customers like the speed and performance of the single board computer. They mention that it works really fast, and the CPU and NVME performance is great. Some customers however, have reported issues with bootability. They say that they have been unsuccessful in getting anything to boot from SD cards, NVMe-SSD, or EMMC. They also say that the DSC is broken or just not implemented.

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    3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the performance of the single board computer. For example, they mention that Joshua-Riek Ubuntu runs great and they use it for retro gaming. That said, some complain about the shipping being on the slow side.

    "...Joshua-Riek Ubuntu runs great and I use Batocera for retro gaming. I couldn't be happier with this unit." Read more

    "Works good, shipping was on the slow side" Read more

    "Great Product, Flawed Support..." Read more

    3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the speed of the single board computer. They mention that it works really fast, is reasonably quick, and has great CPU and NVME performance.

    "...The hardware for the money is quite impressive. It's reasonably quick ( about as fast as my old intel 2017 macbook air ) and can even run extremely..." Read more

    "It works really fast.I love it!" Read more

    "...CPU and NVME performance is great." Read more

    3 customers mention0 positive3 negative

    Customers have issues with the bootability of the single board computer. They mention that they have been unsuccessful in getting anything to boot from SD cards, NVMe-SSD, or EMMC. They also say that the OS images won't boot and that the DSC is broken or just not implemented.

    "...with this computer running AndroidTV, but I have been unsuccessful in getting anything to boot from SD=card, NVMe-SSD or EMMC...." Read more

    "...DSC is broken or just not implemented...." Read more

    "...Regular failures to boot testing 3 different OSes with quality SD cards (Samsung, TeamGroup, PNY) make this an expensive and time consuming headache..." Read more

    Top reviews from the United States

    Btothek
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great little board
    Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2024
    Color: Pi 5 Plus 16G+Type-C Power SupplyVerified Purchase
    It's comparable to a Ras Pi 5, with a little more power. So far, it has been fun to start some new projects with it.
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    L. Dighera
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, Flawed Support
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2024
    Color: Pi 5 Plus 16G+Type-C Power SupplyVerified Purchase
    This little computer has it all, but configuring it is an exercise in frustration.
    The OS images won't boot. (Use Armbian.com instead.)
    The support forum says they'll send a confirmation e-mail, but they don't despite multiple attempts.
    Most of the mandatory tools are in the Chinese language. Guides are all over the place; difficult to find the one needed.

    My intent was to replace my nVidia Shield with this computer running AndroidTV, but I have been unsuccessful in getting anything to boot from SD=card, NVMe-SSD or EMMC. But, I haven't given up.

    SELLER: What would I have to pay for one with 32GB of RAM? Name your price.
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    Mitchell
    1.0 out of 5 stars Very cool but very flawed machine
    Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024
    Color: Pi 5 Plus 16GVerified Purchase
    TLDR version: Cool board, poor support. Orange Pi, work with upstream so your end users can just install Fedora ARM, Ubuntu ARM, Alpine Linux etc directly from them without having to use your old hacked up kernel and firmware. That would get me to 4 stars. That plus UEFI support would get me to 5 stars.

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    The hardware for the money is quite impressive. It's reasonably quick ( about as fast as my old intel 2017 macbook air ) and can even run extremely high resolution and high refresh rate displays like my 4K 120hz. The dual 2.5gb Ethernet is *really* cool, and makes it feel like my NAS feel almost like a local drive.

    But then there are all the "quirks" to put it nicely, and serious problems with the software for this board to be frank.

    They're *ALL* fixable problems, for the manufacturer, probably not you, sadly.

    First thing is the firmware required to boot the machine is open source, sure. But it's a downstream fork of u-boot. What this means for you is that getting *any* OS to load that doesn't come from Orange Pi is going to be a headache.

    The next thing is that the kernel required to get the full functionality here is downstream, and old. You're pretty much stuck with Linux 5.10.x because that's the only thing that was ported to this board. This is the biggest problem for me, and if Orange Pi wants a 5 star review from me, they *NEED* to work with upstream Linux and get their hardware supported in mainline.

    The next major problem is their own OS images, it's fine and all I guess if they want to provide their own images, but they're just using a google drive link, which means files hit their quota and you can't even download them.

    The Arch Linux based image I was actually able to download from them at least worked, and let me test out a bit of the hardware, but the server it connects to for updates appears to be down. ( Additionally, sorry Orange Pi, but I don't trust any of your OS Images )

    So, that leads us to what upstream Linux distros are available for this. The answer is not many. There's Armbian and Joshua Riek's Ubuntu Rockchip. I'm sure there are a few others as well, but I haven't bothered to try them. Both of them work, and at the time of writing HDMI works out of the box, but when you update them HDMI stops working ( At least on my HDMI 2.1 monitor ) and I'm forced to use Display Port via the USB C. Thankfully, my high refresh rate 4K does work on display port and HDMI, but this about makes it useless for using with a TV.

    DSC is broken or just not implemented. While 4K 144hz *is* an option on my current monitor, I get tons of artifacts attempting to use it on the usb-c/displayport. This one I'm actually somewhat okay with, the utility of super high refresh rate 4Ks on a device like this is questionable, and it doesn't default to 144hz or anything so it's fine.

    Also, H264 video decoding seems to be buggy at least on Ubuntu, green boxes occasionally. I'm not sure if this is a gstreamer issue or a driver issue. At least vlc always, though I didn't check to see if it was actually using hardware acceleration.

    I haven't tried the av1 decoding yet, but it's cool that it's a feature.

    I can't comment on the m.2 slot yet, because I don't have a screw. Orange Pi, you'd get an extra star just for including that.

    I should also mention that there *is* some effort on mainline/upstream Linux to support the RK3588 which this is based on. It's early days though, and there are still a number of things that do not work.

    All in all, I'm okay with my purchase, but it's not quite what I had hoped for. It's sad that ARM single board computers like this don't have any better hardware support than they did a decade ago when I last played around with them.
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    MARZ
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beast!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024
    Color: Pi 5 Plus 16G+Type-C Power SupplyVerified Purchase
    This thing is a beast of a machine. I wanted to get a second computer just to run Linux but didn't want to fork out a lot of money and this is perfect. Joshua-Riek Ubuntu runs great and I use Batocera for retro gaming. I couldn't be happier with this unit.
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    Yuriy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Small beast!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2023
    Color: Pi 5 Plus 16GVerified Purchase
    It works really fast.
    I love it!
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    HeR3tic
    2.0 out of 5 stars NOT plug N play
    Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2024
    Color: Pi 5 Plus 16G+Type-C Power SupplyVerified Purchase
    Installing an OS on OPi5 for a novice can be a nightmare. Choose raspberry pi4 instead; rPi5 not so easy either.
    OPi5 manual extensive, over 500 pages, but referenced installation tools outdated or dysfunctional lending to nightmares. After a week in the mud but now with Etcher at hand, installed Debian 12 Xfce, aka Bookworm, BTW also good for rPi5.
    Far more comparative power than a rPi5, naturally with twice the CPU cores. Standard HDMI ports *****.

    Operating System installation IS #1 persuader against purchasing. Community much smaller and Corporate having unnatural relationship with g00gle than gaud should allow. You.ve a greater likelihood to install a g$$gle OS (andr0id/droid) with success than a Linux distro as the choices are very limited.

    Not for the faint of heart.
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    Matthew
    3.0 out of 5 stars Haven't even plugged it in and already ANNOYED!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2024
    Color: Pi 5 Plus 16G+Type-C Power SupplyVerified Purchase
    M.2 screws are like hen's teeth. How hard is it to include two screws with a $150 product at a cost of $0.005??
    2 people found this helpful
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    Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best performance to price ratio.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2023
    Color: Pi 5 Plus 8GVerified Purchase
    With Joshua Riek Ubuntu or Armbian installed it is very good platform for ARM development. CPU and NVME performance is great.
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