Radxa has expanded its range of single-board computers with the Orion O6 model, which features a Cix P1 processor with 12 Armv9 cores. The new product is made in the mini-ITX form factor with dimensions of 170×170 mm.
The Cix P1 chip with DynamIQ architecture combines quartets of Cortex-A720 cores with a frequency of up to 2.8 GHz, a Cortex-A720 with a frequency of up to 2.4 GHz, and a Cortex-A520 with a frequency of up to 1.8 GHz. There is an Arm Immortalis G720 MC10 GPU unit with support for Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0. 8Kp60 video decoding (AV1, H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8, H.263, MPEG4, MPEG2) and 8Kp30 encoding (H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8) are possible. The built-in neuroprocessor engine (NPU) has a performance of up to 30 TOPS with the ability to operate in INT4/INT8/INT16, FP16/BF16 and TF32 modes.
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The amount of RAM LPDDR5-5500 can be 8, 16, 32 or 64 GB. There is an M.2 Key-M slot (PCIe 4.0 x4) for NVMe SSD, an M.2 Key-E connector (PCIe 4.0 x2; USB) for a Wi-Fi adapter (Wi-Fi 7/6E + Bluetooth) and a PCIe x16 slot (PCIe 4.0 x8) for expansion card. There is a 5GbE network adapter.
It is possible to display images on four monitors via HDMI 2.0 (4Kp60), DisplayPort 1.4 (4Kp120), USB Type-C (DisplayPort Alt Mode) and eDP (4Kp60) interfaces. The equipment includes two USB 3.2 Gen2 (10 Gbps) Type-A and USB 2.0 Type-A ports, an additional USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port with Power Delivery support, an RJ-45 socket for a network cable, a 40-pin header GPIO (3×UART, 2×I2C, 2×I2S, 2×PWM, 1×SPI, 10×GPIO), 4-pin PWM fan header. Power can be supplied via a USB Type-C port (minimum 65 W) or an ATX connector.
It is said to be compatible with Debian Linux and Fedora, and in the future – with Ubuntu, Android, Deepin, Windows and OpenKylin. The price ranges from $200 to $450 depending on the amount of RAM. Availability of the board is guaranteed until at least September 2029.