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Title: Orange Pi 6 Plus: Raspberry Pi 5 rival offers up to 64GB RAM and NPU performance on par with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
Post by: Redaktion on October 12, 2025, 18:14:21
The Orange Pi 6 Plus is a new single-board computer that stands out with its high AI performance, which will allow users to run some AI models directly on the device. The new Raspberry Pi 5 alternative is available in various configurations and even supports SSDs.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Orange-Pi-6-Plus-Raspberry-Pi-5-rival-offers-up-to-64GB-RAM-and-NPU-performance-on-par-with-AMD-Ryzen-AI-9-HX-370.1136860.0.html
Title: Re: Orange Pi 6 Plus: Raspberry Pi 5 rival offers up to 64GB RAM and NPU performance on par with AMD
Post by: DS27 on October 12, 2025, 20:31:25
The information is incorrect. AMD XDNA2 in Kraken and Strix point has 50TOPS BF16. The NPU in this SBC must be INT8, and performance is limited by slow RAM.
Title: Re: Orange Pi 6 Plus: Raspberry Pi 5 rival offers up to 64GB RAM and NPU performance on par with AMD
Post by: baldpope on October 16, 2025, 04:34:56
From the complete specifications of the NPU...

AI accelerator – Up to 30 TOPS Neural Processing Unit (NPU) with support for INT4/INT8/INT16, FP16/BF16, and TF32; Note: Up to 45 TOPS of AI performance with CPU+GPU+NPU

Which isn't to say it's slow, but the article might be a little misleading in comparing performance.
Title: Re: Orange Pi 6 Plus: Raspberry Pi 5 rival offers up to 64GB RAM and NPU performance on par with AMD
Post by: gingles on December 22, 2025, 12:20:13
Raspberry pi 5 is a weak board to call a rival. These new p1 or cix 8180/8160 cpu boards rival the rk3588 boards more which far exceed any raspberry pi 5 or other. The rasp pi offers good software support for less then average powered pi niche SBCs anymore. Orange pi has really improved their selection in pace with Radxa. Radxa has obliterated the market prices with $10 and $15 octacore a55 and similar boards it seems.
Opi4pro and radxa a7a is almost the same, opi offering an onboard m.2 key (and a higher msrp) and the pcie gen3 16point ribbon connector of rasp pi & radxa addon compatibility.

Raspberrypi is really for beginners to the sbc world who cannot compile or wish not find alt OS images. Where as these radxa , friendly elec, Opi boards offer superior hardware at Rpi prices or better low cost alternatives.
Rasp pi has great software support, but intime most these otherboards eventually do as well. Just have to do some internet searching and not be so premadonna about community support.
I LOVE the opi5plus with rk3588. I bought mine before rpi5 was ever released.. And really dont see any reason to run a rasp pi5. The rpi4b on the otherhand makes a great cheap lower end alternative to the a55 cortex quardcores like opi3b, and similar rk3566 (rk3566 is 4xa55 core, rk3588 is 4xa76 & 4xa55 which is probably the most powerful chipset that has maga support in software. )
Raspberry pi is more for beginners, kids, and is not really opensource or libresoft