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

today we're going to be taking a look at the Orange py 5 Pro this is a new SBC from Orange py that is based on the Rock Chip RK 3588 s s so The RK 3588 s is largely similar to The RK 3588 with the main difference being a reduction in pcie Lanes from four to just one given the form factor IO and Port layout the orange power five is clearly targeted as an alternative to the Raspberry Pi 5 so let's see how its price performance and usability stuck up taking a look around the board The RK 3588 s processor is in the middle this is an 8 core 64-bit processor that consists of a 4 core cortex a76 processor running at 2.4 GHz and a 4 core cortex a55 processor running at 1.8 GHz in addition to this it's got an armari g610 GPU so we should get really good performance from it with double the CPU cores of the Raspberry Pi 5 although four Cor are running at a slightly lower clock speed alongside the processor is the ram chip the orange Pi 5 Pro comes in a 4 gig 8 gig and 16 gig variant all with LP ddr5 Ram this is a step up from the lp ddr4 RAM on the nonpr version of the orange power 5 above that is the Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth Val chip and the DSR Port alongside it similar to the Raspberry Pi 5 the orange P 5 pro has a gab ethernet port on one side alongside four USB ports but notably three of these are USB 2.0 and only one is USB 3.0 they've also included a header for additional USB 2.0 ports behind the physical ports this could be useful for builds into enclosures along the other side is an HDMI 2.0 Port an audio port an HDMI 2.1 port and a USBC power port the HDMI 2.1 Port can do 8K 60 and the HDMI 2 no Port can do 4K 60 I like that they've made space for fullsize HDMI ports I don't really like how fragile the micro hdmr ports on the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5r and you often require adapters or special cables to plug into them rather than the more commonly available fulls size HDMI cables it's interesting that they've chosen to keep the audio port since the Raspberry Pi 5 did away with it on the opposite side is a 40 pin gpio header this follows the same pin layout as the Raspberry p boards it's also colorcoded which makes it a bit easier to locate the 5V 3.3 volt and ground pins next to these pins are a 5volt fan connector and a realtime clock connector underneath the board is a prominent m.2 m key port this allows you to connect an nvme SSD to it although it is only a PCI Express gen 2x1 Port so it won't be that fast by today's standards it's also got a connector for additional emmz storage a Micro SD card slots and two camera ports so that's an overview of the hardware as you can see the io is somewhat limited due to the single PCI Express Lane on The RK 3588 s but you've still got a range of options and support for an nvme drive without an adapter hopefully the power of the CPU and the improved Ram will make up for some of the io limitations so let's get it boot it up and find out to power the orange power 5 Pro you can get a 5V 5 USBC power supply from Orange pie this has the same specs as the Raspberry Pi 5's official power supply so you can use one of those too like with other orange P boards the main operating system that they want you to run on it is called orange P OS they've got a couple of options for this including an Arch Linux and Android version and they include some other images like aunu and Debian images I'll be using the Debian image for testing as this is what I've tested other sbc's on so the results will be better to compare I've got the OS flashed onto a Micro SD card which the orange power is booting off and I've added an nvme drive for storage to do a benchmark on as well I'm going to test this in the same way that I usually test sbcs we'll first test some video playb at 1080P and 4K then try run assist bench Benchmark I'll then take a look at the nvme disc speed and finally look at power consumption the first boots on the new operating system takes a bit longer than subsequent boots but we're still on the desktop in under a minute if we open up htop we can see we have our eight processor cores listed they're all relatively idle at the moment and we can see our 16 gigs of RAM we can see our nvme drive is connected which is also apparent through the desktop icon first let's try playing back a YouTube video in the default browser chromium I'm going to do this at 1080P and then try 4K we'll set the display resolution to 10 1080p then let's open up the browser then go to YouTube and open up Big Buck Bunny I'll set the playback resolution to 1080p as well and open up stats for nerds video playback in the window drops a few frames in the beginning but after that is near perfect playback is also okay in full screen but it does drop a couple of frames every so often which is noticeable and this becomes annoying next let's step it up to 4K I did encounter some weird behavior when changing to 4K the display wouldn't refresh when the setting was applied and you could clearly see that the resolution hadn't changed although it showed up as if if it had a reboot after changing the setting seemed to fix the issue and it then booted up in 4k next we can reopen the browser and Big Buck Bunny we'll set the playback resolution to 4K as well in 4k playback gets off to a pretty poor start we dropped a large number of frames in the beginning and continues to drop frames throughout playback opening up the full screen is even worse and it's basically unusable so this board does quite a bit worse than the orange power 5 plus at 4K playback but this is probably a software issue with the board using software decoding instead of Hardware decoding opening up htop the CPU is at about 40 to 50% utilization across all cores this is a lot more than the 20 to 30% utilization on only the first four cores that we had on the 5 plus to jump in here if you're going to be primarily using the orange power 5 Pro as a media device then you'll likely want to go with the Android image this tends to perform better for video playback next let's check the performance of the 5 Pro by running assist bench CPU Benchmark after 10 seconds we've processed a little under 5,350 events per second and we get a total score of 53519 over three tests the orange Pi 5 Pro managed an average of 53520 for comparison and also over three consecutive tests The Rock power 5B managed an average of 53,6 42 The cardas Edge 2 managed an average of 51560 and the orange power 5 plus managed an average of 53,486 the raspberry power 5 manages an average of 35,000 so the results of the orange par 5 Pro are a bit better than the cardas Edge 2 with the same s so C they're actually very similar to The Rock 5B and orange power 5 plus which have the better RK 3588 CPU they're also significantly higher than the Raspberry Pi 5 with an over 50% Improvement thermally you probably want to use a heat sink on the CPU if you're running CPU intensive tasks after playing back 4K video for around 15 minutes the orange par 5 Pro CPU was at 70° and the surface of the CPU was at 55° this was also in a relatively cool room with an ambient temperature of just 20° next let's look at the nvme disc speed for this test I'm going to be using James Chambers P Benchmark script I've used this script recently to Benchmark a few different nvme hats for the Raspberry Pi 5 I ran the test three times with very consistent results across the three tests I got an average total score of a little over 16,000 the Raspberry Pi 5 had resoled slightly under 60,000 ,000 so the orange Pi 5 Pro is significantly slower than the Raspberry Pi 5 this is likely due to the one generation reduction on the PCI Port lastly let's take a look at power consumption to measure the 5 PR power consumption I used the USB power meter cable that supports power delivery this showed that the 5 Pro uses about 3 Watts when idle and it goes up to about 6 to 8 WTS when loaded with peaks of up to 9 wat so it's fairly similar to the Raspberry Pi 5 and a bit more power angry than the cardas hed2 with the same s so in terms of cost only the 16 gig variant of the par 5 Pro is currently available at the time of making this video it retails for $109 this is about $30 more than the best variant of the raspberry piie 5 the 8 gig version but you're getting double the ram double the CPU cores and onboard nvme support so you won't need to buy an additional hat for it so I think the price is fair in terms of value for money overall I think the orange P 5 Pro is a great alternative to the Raspberry Pi 5 if your project favors raw CPU or GPU performance so it'll be good for computationally intensive projects and simulations it offers much better raw performance than the Raspberry Pi 5 and is a decent set of built- in IO it is limited by the single PCI Express Lane so you don't get two USB 3.0 ports and the nvme drive is only running at Gen 2 speeds but depending on your project this might be something you can live with the main reason reason you'd want to get a Raspberry Pi 5 over the orange Pi 5 Pro is for the software support orange piie is one of the best supported alternative SBC manufacturers but even so their Community software support is quite far behind that of Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi fostered a large community around their products and this community is really good at working together to develop software and troubleshoot issues the orange Pi 5 Pro is a great board if there's a software package or Os image built for it or if you've got a good understanding of software and program but for the average hobbyist or tinkerer if you're trying a project that hasn't been tried before or you're running a project that utilizes the GPO then you're probably better off with the raspberry power 5 let me know what you think of the orange power 5 Pro in the comments section below and if there's anything else you'd like to see me try on it thanks for watching please remember to like this video If you enjoyed it and subscribe for more Tech in electronics 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Channel: Michael Klements

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Keywords: Raspberry Pi 5, Orange Pi 5 Pro, Orange Pi 5, Orange Pi, Raspberry Pi, PiBenchmarks, James Chambers, Big Buck Bunny, Youtube Playback, Video Playback, 4K Video, Sysbench CPU Benchmark, Sysbench, Debian, Orange Pi OS, Power Consumption, Alternatives

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Length: 11min 33sec (693 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 24 2024