NanoPi R5C: FriendlyELEC starts selling new compact single-board computer for US$49 and up

The NanoPi R5C is FriendlyELEC’s latest single-board computer (SBC), having introduced the NanoPi R5S earlier this year. The NanoPi R5C is, as its name suggests, a compact version of the NanoPi R5S, which was by no means big. However, while the NanoPi R5S measures 90 x 62 mm, the NanoPi R5C comes in at just 58 x 58 mm and 39 g without its case. For reference, the latter measures 62.5 x 62.5 x 29 mm with its case, which also brings it weight to 149 g.

FriendlyELEC has based the NanoPi R5C around the Rockchip RK3568B2, a chipset with four ARM Cortex-A55 CPU cores clocked at 2 GHz, plus a Mali-G52 GPU and an NPU capable of delivering 0.8 TOPS. Additionally, the NanoPi R5C has LPDDR4X RAM, eMMC flash storage and a microSD card slot that supports UHS-1 cards. FriendlyELEC adds that the NanoPi R5C supports several operating systems too, including versions of OpenWrt and FriendlyCore Lite based on Ubuntu. Separately, the NanoPi R5C offers the following I/O:

• 2x 2.5 Gbps Ethernet
• 1x HDMI 2.0
• 4x LED lights
• 1x M.2 Key E (PCIe 2.1 x1/USB 2.0)
• 1x MicroSD card reader
• 2x USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A
• 1x USB Type-C (5V power input)

Currently, the NanoPi R5C starts at US$49 with 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of eMMC flash storage and a metal chassis. Alternatively, the SBC is available with 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of eMMC flash storage for a US$10 surcharge. Please note that FriendlyELEC charges US$18 for a Wi-Fi module, regardless of the version chosen. More information about the NanoPi R5C can be found on FriendlyELEC’s wiki.

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