Orange Pi 5 Is A Great & Very Fast Alternative To The Raspberry Pi 4

Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 23 March 2023 at 01:00 PM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 100 Comments.

For some initial benchmarks of the Orange Pi 5 8GB single board computer, I benchmarked it against the Raspberry Pi 400 with its official Raspberry Pi OS release. The Orange Pi 5 was running with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on the Linux 5.10 kernel. Both the Raspberry Pi 400 and Orange Pi 5 were relying on SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO microSD (U3 / A2) storage.

miniBUDE benchmark with settings of Implementation: OpenMP, Input Deck: BM1. Orange Pi 5 was the fastest.

CloverLeaf benchmark with settings of Lagrangian-Eulerian Hydrodynamics. Orange Pi 5 was the fastest.

Dolfyn benchmark with settings of Computational Fluid Dynamics. Orange Pi 5 was the fastest.

LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator benchmark with settings of Model: Rhodopsin Protein. Orange Pi 5 was the fastest.

To no real surprise, the Orange Pi 5 easily smashes past the current level of performance provided by the Raspberry Pi family. The quad-core 1.5GHz Cortex-A72 with the Raspberry Pi 4 / 400 series easily loses to the eight Cortex-A76 cores at 2.4GHz plus the four Cortex-A65 low-power cores.

Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 3, Compression Speed. Orange Pi 5 was the fastest.

Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 3, Decompression Speed. Orange Pi 5 was the fastest.

Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 19, Compression Speed. Orange Pi 5 was the fastest.

Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 19, Decompression Speed. Orange Pi 5 was the fastest.

With the Orange Pi 5 8GB being comparably priced to the Raspberry Pi 4 8GB single board computer with current Amazon pricing, for those concerned about ARM64 Linux performance this latest Orange Pi easily delivers a far better bang for your buck.

JPEG XL libjxl benchmark with settings of Input: PNG, Quality: 80. Orange Pi 5 was the fastest.

JPEG XL libjxl benchmark with settings of Input: JPEG, Quality: 80. Orange Pi 5 was the fastest.

Granted, the Orange Pi developer community isn't as large as that of the Raspberry Pi community or the current range of accessories and documentation, but for those more concerned about features and performance, the Orange Pi 5 is extremely interesting.

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