Orange Pi 5 Plus SBC switches to Rockchip RK3588 SoC, brings dual HDMI 2.1, dual 2.5GbE, M.2 PCIe sockets

Orange Pi 5 Plus is the first Rockchip RK3588 SBC from the company and succeeds the cheaper Rockchip RK3588S-based Orange Pi 5 and Orange Pi 5B single board computers that had a more limited number of high-end interfaces.

Switching to the I/O rich RK3588 processor allowed Orange Pi to add two 2.5GbE networking interfaces, support for NVMe SSD storage up to 2,000 MB/s, up to four display interfaces with two HDMI 2.1 ports, MIPI DSI and USB-C with DisplayPort Alt. mode, as well as an extra M.2 socket for optional WiFi 6 and Bluetooth connectivity.

Orange Pi 5 Plus specifications:

The dimensions are slightly larger than the earlier Orange Pi 5 boards, and the costs have been kept in check by removing the eMMC flash from the 5B, letting users opting for an eMMC flash module, if they don't use the M.2 2280 socket to connect an NVMe SSD, and WiFi 6 is now optional. Operating systems will include Orange Pi OS (Droid and Arch Linux), Ubuntu, Debian, and Android 12, and I’d expect Armbian to eventually support the board since Orange Pi paid for platinum support for the Orange Pi 5/5B boards.

Amazingly the Orange Pi 5 Plus board is very similar to the FriendlyELEC's NanoPC-T6 introduced yesterday, as if both companies almost worked together. That makes the Banana Pi BPI-WP3, announced last week with a similar feature set, virtually irrelevant except for people interested in evaluating the BPI-RK3588 core module for their own carrier board.

Three versions of the Orange Pi 5 Plus will be sold with different RAM capacities:

The boards can be purchased on the company's stores on Amazon and Aliexpress.

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.

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