I’ve seen RPi5 is only quad-core while OPi5 is octa-core. RPi5 has better connectivity with Wifi and Bluetooth. Are there any other details I’ve missed?
The RK3588S of the OrangePI5 is in theory significantly faster, both CPU and GPU, but driver support isn’t quite there yet (especially with mainline kernels) and of course the price is higher too.
Do you know if hardware decode of 4K HEVC works on the Orange Pi 5?
The hardware specs for the RK3588S claim up to 8k@60fps HEVC but I have no idea if the hardware decoder is already supported with drivers.
decoding just means being able to actually read it right? I’m looking into figuring out how to transcode my 4k stuff for when I’m outside my network and my snyology 1621+ isn’t up to the task I don’t think.
The ideal option is a 7th gen or newer Intel CPU and use QSV, much more powerful than any of these SBCs, and the T/U CPUs used in USFF boxes have very low power consumption.
Your basic USFF box off ebay with one of those costs about $80 ready to go, so much cheaper than a Pi too. https://www.ebay.com/itm/115924770193
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Hardware_decoding_and_encoding
Rad!! This is excellent, thank you friend. I have a lot of 4k remuxes with dolby vision/hdr10 and atmos. Would this be able to handle that? I would want to just transcode down to 4k streaming quality, or 1080p if I’m not connected to a 4k screen.
Hmm for HDR stuff I’m not sure which generation of QSV has good support for those, you might need to do some research on the Plex forums or Google and see what other people say.
Yeah. I think a Intel ARC 380 (or better) might be able to do what, but not sure.
If you wonder about raw performance, the two were benchmarked by phoronix recently
My 2c, buy RPi’s because what makes them so great is the availability of drivers and information. You will end up paying with your time if you try to save some money up front. I had several OPi, one randomly started throwing errors. After several reinstalls with various sd card, the information I could find was that the SoC itself was causing the errors. Also getting any hardware to work with it is just a major pain, driver support is severely lacking. Support for the Linux versions is community driven, so you’re dependent on Armbian maintainers. If you have a very new or an older board, you’re probably out of luck when you want to do anything outside of Linux. Example, I could not get a camera and BT module working. I later bought a RPi4 and had the same hardware working within hours.
Outside of the (theoretical) technical specs of the OPi5 being better, I’ve heard/read mixed things about OPis. Some say they’re a good alternative, some say they’re cheap Chinese-made crap. I’ve had no experience myself, so take it with a grain of salt.
I’m interested to see more data on the RPi5 when it’s out, as to figure out if it’s worth getting over trying an OPi5 for a home media system with Jellyfin.
I bought an Orange Pi 5 earlier this year to replace an old RPi 4. I runs various docker containers plus some custom tools I wrote myself in .NET and rust. Yes, .NET on a random ARM SBC. No issues.
Honestly the only downside was the case availability, at the time there was only a choice of two cases and neither looked as good as the Flirc case for the RPi 4.
Software support is generally crap on the Orange Pi’s. Make sure it supports Armbian and get the LTS version, if such one exists.
Yeah if you just want a little computer, sure, pick up the orange pi. But if you want any of the gpio stuff get a raspberry pi because none of the knockoffs seem to work with modern kernel.
My Libre, El Potato, works well enough. I use it to run octoprint on Debian Bullseye and the GPIO to turn on/off the printer and with some temperature sensors and to control the fan in the external electronics enclosure I built. But to be fair, it was a lot more trouble to set up than if I could have gotten my hands on a raspberry pi at the time.
Have you heard of https://github.com/dw-0/kiauh ?
Does the orange pi 5 also require active cooling? That’s one of my bigger hangouts about the RPi5.
Fwiw the Pi5 is like the Pi4 in that it doesn’t actually need active cooling, but youll enjoy better sustained performance if you stick a heatsink on it.
If it was required out of the box, Raspberry Pi wouldn’t be selling it separately
I dont think so, there is a tiny fan on my case but I dont think it does very much in addition to the heatsink. I could probably run it without the fan just fine.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters LTS Long Term Support software version Plex Brand of media server package RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC SBC Single-Board Computer
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The Raspberry Pi’s are little low cost computers you can use for things, with good support, conventional OS’s that work and lots of searchable information and experiences. To varying degrees, the other boards are more like development boards - good for fiddling with if getting things going is your hobby.
OPi’s work out of the box just like RPi’s do. At least for the ones I tried. They’re both low cost SBCs meant to fill the same purposes
