The Orange Pi family of single-board computers, according to the CNX Software resource, has been replenished with the Orange Pi 5 Ultra model on the Rockchip hardware platform. Various OS images are available for the device, including Orange Pi OS (Android, Arch or OpenHarmony), Ubuntu 20.04/22.04, Debian 11/12, OpenWrt and Android 13.
The new product is a close relative of the Orange Pi 5 Max model, which debuted in July of this year. Both devices carry an 8-core Rockchip RK3588 processor (4×Cortex-A76 @ 2.4 GHz and 4×Cortex-A55 @ 1.8 GHz) with an Arm Mali-G610 MP4 graphics accelerator (OpenGL ES1.1/2.0/ 3.2, OpenCL 2.2, Vulkan 1.2). The chip includes an NPU unit with a performance of up to 6 TOPS for performing AI operations (INT4/INT8/INT16/FP16). 8Kp60 H.265/VP9/AVS2 video decoding and 8Kp30 H.265/H.264 encoding are possible.
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The Orange Pi 5 Ultra single board computer can carry on board 4, 8 or 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory and an eMMC flash module with a capacity of up to 256 GB. There is a microSD slot and an M.2 2280 connector for SSDs with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. There is an ES8388 audio codec, a 2.5GbE network controller (RTL8125BG), Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 adapters (AP6611S).
The product received an HDMI 2.1 output (8Kp60) and an HDMI 2.0 input (4Kp60), which is missing in the Orange Pi 5 Max version. In addition, there are two USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, an RJ-45 socket for a network cable, a 3.5 mm audio jack, a 40-pin GPIO header (UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, PWM), MIPI DSI interfaces (4 lines), 2×MIPI CSI (4 lines), MIPI D-DPHY Rx (4 lines). Power is supplied via the USB Type-C port. Dimensions are 89×57 mm, weight – 60.5 g.
The Orange Pi 5 Ultra price ranges from $75 to $125 depending on the amount of installed memory.