The Orange Pi 5 Pro is a new version of the single board computer series (SBC) from Shenzhen

But its boards remain the most famous in its catalog and in fact are one of the best alternatives to the Raspberry Pi, which leads the segment of single-board computers. Like any successful product, it encouraged other manufacturers to develop their own solutions, and in recent years we have seen the arrival of various alternatives. Most of them are similar, some are practically identical, and the rest with superior features or different hardware architecture, but basically retain their form factor, like a novelty at hand.

Orange Pi 5 Pro, specifications

With a size very similar to that of the Raspberry 4, in dimensions contained in 89 x 56 mm, the biggest difference between them lies in the main hardware engine, better in the case of Orange, thanks to the ARM SoC. Rockchip RK3588 octa-core (four ARM Cortex-A76 cores at 2.4 GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores at 1.8 GHz), Mali-G610 MP4 graphics and a neural processing unit (NPU) for tasks involving AI.

Orange is also improving the memory part, now in format LPDDR5 in capacities of 4, 8 or 16 GB capacity. It also has an M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 x4 connector where an NVMe SSD can be installed with a sequential transfer rate of up to 2000 MB/s, a performance much higher than the eMMC flash that it provides by default with the option to install capacities of 32 GB, 64 GB , 128 GB or 256 GB.

As regards connectivityhas everything you could ask for from one of these developments:

• Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 module
• 1 40-pin MIPI-DSI GPIO
• 1 Gigabit Ethernet
• 1 HDMI 2.1 ports (output up to 8K/60 fps)
• 1 HDMI 2.0 input (up to 4K/60fps)
• 1 USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C port (with DisplayPort 1.4 alternative mode)
• 3 USB 3.0 Type A ports
• 1 USB Type-C port (power)
• 1 3.5 mm audio jack

The Orange Pi 5 Pro can run its own Orange Pi OS (Android or Arch Linux versions) as well as others such as Ubuntu, Debian or Android 12. We don’t have official prices, but in any case they should be lower than the Orange Pi 5 Plus.