Orange Pi 5 lands for US$60 with Rockchip RK3588S and 4 GB of LPDDR4X RAM

Earlier this year, Orange Pi launched the Orange Pi 4 LTS, a single-board computer (SBC) that it paired with the Rockchip RK3399 chipset. Incidentally, the company announced the Orange Pi 800 a few months later, which took the guts of the Orange Pi 4 LTS and repackaged it in a keyboard as a Raspberry Pi 400 competitor. Now, Orange Pi has started taking orders for the Orange Pi 5, a 100 x 62 mm SBC that the company teased earlier this year.

As the image below shows, the Orange Pi 5 has a 26-pin header, with 17 pins dedicated to GPIO. Additionally, Orange Pi has included four USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI out and a 3.5 mm jack, as well as two 4-lane MIPI DSI connectors that can output at 4K and 60 FPS. Moreover, Orange Pi has based the Orange Pi 5 on the Rockchip RK3588S, a cut-down version of the Rockchip RK3588, which it has complemented with an M.2 2242 socket for NVMe SSDs and a microSD card slot.

Currently, the Orange Pi 5 is orderable on AliExpress for US$60 with 4 GB of LPDDR4X RAM but no storage. For reference, the SBC supports OrangePi OS, along with Android 12 and Debian 11. Eventually, the Orange Pi 5 should be available with 8 GB, 16 GB or 32 GB of RAM, although it is unclear when at this stage. Similarly, Orange Pi originally advertised the board with 32 GB of eMMC flash storage, which is missing from initial units. More details about the Orange Pi 5 can be found on the company's product listing.

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