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Voltarum Mini PC Guide

Rockchip RK3588

The most capable common Arm SoC for boards: eight cores, 8K video decoding, H.264/HEVC encoding and lots of PCIe.

Specifications

Factual data
Vendor
Rockchip
Architecture
Arm (64-bit) · Cortex-A76 + A55
Cores / threads
8 / 84× Cortex-A76 + 4× Cortex-A55
Max clock
2.4 GHz
Process
8 nm
Released
2022
Graphics
Arm Mali-G610 MP4
Video decode
H.264, HEVC 8-bit, HEVC 10-bit (HDR), VP9, AV1
Video encode
H.264, HEVC 8-bit
NPU
6 TOPS
Max RAM
32 GB

Source: Manufacturer specifications

Devices with the Rockchip RK3588

Orange Pi

Orange Pi 5 Max

Processor
Rockchip RK3588
RAM
16 GB
Network
1 × 2.5 GbE

Great fit for: No use rated great

A full RK3588 in Raspberry Pi size, with LPDDR5, 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 6E.

from $95 (launch price)For advanced users

Orange Pi

Orange Pi 5 Plus

Processor
Rockchip RK3588
RAM
32 GB
Network
2 × 2.5 GbE

Great fit for: No use rated great

The RK3588 board with the most I/O: two 2.5 GbE ports, a full-speed NVMe slot, HDMI in and up to 32 GB.

from $109 (launch price)For advanced users

Radxa

Radxa ROCK 5B

Processor
Rockchip RK3588
RAM
32 GB
Network
1 × 2.5 GbE

Great fit for: No use rated great

An RK3588 board with one of the best mainline Linux efforts among Arm SBCs.

—For advanced users