The board can look good and have a standard form factor, but you should think what the objective of the system is or will be. This RK3588 has many things on the SoC, like multiple SATA3. Do you need a big PCB if you want to use it with lets say 1 NVME SSD en 1 3.5inch HDD?Christopher Barnatt at the ExplainingComputers YouTube channel has a new video on the Radxa ROCK 5 in ITX form factor, here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C8QTf7GLfs&t=2s
The board looks really good. Any chance of a RaspberryPi 5 in ITX form factor?
What people should realize is that the supported OS/software is Debian11, 5.10 kernel, a vendor one. You can also expect various patches/modifications in packages that are there to make sure the GPU is used. As soon as you do an apt update && apt upgrade, things will be replaced by vanilla Debian ones, meaning gone is the functionality (and speed). Maybe Radxa does a better job than I think, but even RPT Pi5 is still not fully upstream kernel.
And then the 11Watt idle displayed in the video. This SoC (the RK3588S variant) can idle around 1W if run form soldered eMMC and onchip GMAC active.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Thu Aug 08, 2024 7:49 pm
