Orange Pi 5 Max single board computer received 2.5GbE and Wi-Fi 6E adapters

The Orange Pi 5 family of single board computers has been expanded with a new model called Orange Pi 5 Max. The product is suitable for creating devices with AI functions and support for 8K video: these can be edge systems, machine vision equipment, VR products, etc.

The Orange Pi 5 Max is based on the 8nm Rockchip RK3588 processor: it contains four Cortex-A76 (2.4 GHz) and Cortex-A55 (1.8 GHz) cores, as well as an Arm Mali-G610 graphics unit with OpenGL support ES1.1/2.0/3.2, OpenCL 2.2 and Vulkan 1.2. There is an NPU (INT4/INT8/INT16/FP16) with a capacity of up to 6 TOPS.

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LPDDR5 memory capacity can be 4, 8 or 16 GB. It is possible to install an eMMC chip with a capacity of 32, 64, 128 or 256 GB. Plus, there is a microSD slot and an M.2 M-Key connector for NVMe SSD (PCIe 3.0 x4). The equipment includes a 2.5GbE network controller (Realtek RTL8125BG), Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3/BLE adapters (AP6611), and ES8388 audio codec.

The single-board computer is equipped with two HDMI 2.1 interfaces with support for 8K video (60 frames per second), an RJ-45 jack for a network cable, two USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports, a 3.5 mm audio jack, and a USB Type-C connector to supply power. A 40-pin GPIO header, MIPI-DSI and MIPI-CSI (×2) interfaces are mentioned.

The product has dimensions 89×57 mm. It is said to be compatible with Orange Pi OS (Android or Arch Linux), Ubuntu, Debian and Android 12. The price of the Orange Pi 5 Max version with 8 GB of RAM is about $95, with 16 GB – $125.