$125 Orange Pi 5 Max: Faster Than Raspberry Pi 5?! Full GPIO, CPU & GPU Benchmarks

[@robertmaxa6631]

Hardware is getting better, but it's all about the software, support, and community.

[@mcafalchio]

Great support

[@JenitzTimeline]

as long as ubuntu OS working everything will be fine

[@martinbone]

Ubuntu Rockchip works great on it ​@@JenitzTimeline

[@you166mhz]

true ...

[@ozgurayik7181]

definitely

[@kjrehberg]

I love how on all Orange Pi devices the I/O is not bottlenecked through an internal USB hub like on the Raspberry Pi.

[@SpikeBlighty]

Impressive first impressions. Nice documentation.

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Absolutely. I wish all SBC vendors did this

[@ama-tu-an-ki]

Great videos. Small suggestion as you have now tested so many SBC, pico, mini and other devices: At the end of the video, give a few sentence summary what each device is targeted/great for (e.g. Great to run Pi-Hole + Squid with 8GB of RAM), what it will not be optimal for (running full Unbound + Pi-Hole + few other services at the same time on a busy home network) and what it can't properly do (e.g. can't do full line speed pfSsense routing/firewalling on a heavy 10GbE network). This way it sets each device in it's "roughly use it for this" device class. Thanks!

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely try in future videos!

[@greenglow8818]

Actually the Orange Pi 5 Pro has LPDDR5 ram just like the Max. It's the main reason why I bought the Pro after having two OPi5 regulars. The Pro price is the "same" as RPi5, $60 for 4GB ram, $80 for 8GB. LOOKING back I wish I had the Max but it wasn't even announced at the time of my Pro purchase. Three main selling points [for me] for the Max over the Pro: NVMe is 4 lanes instead of [PCIe2.0] 1 lane, SPI flash chip is already built in so no need to hot air gun one on (needed to run Android on NVMe), and on the Pro MASKROM mode is very finicky where I had to use a double male USB-A [3.0] cable b/c of a lack of power negotiation (even though a USB-A to USB-C cable works on regular OPi5)

[@kd4pba]

The specs are good but all I ever see with orange pi is nightmares with software compatibility,

[@Rushil69420]

Upgrade to the Panfrost GPU drivers and your Glmark score will literally double. I get ~1200 on my Rock 5B

[@HellToupee1]

i get ~2500 on my rock5b with Panthor GPU Drivers

[@Rushil69420]

@ dang I think I meant panthor but wait really? Wonder what am I doing wrong lol

[@alevans51]

Firmware update support missing. You are on your own....

[@ArthursHD]

Sadly Armbian does not support this model yet :(. It's unclear from the video - is the video playing using VPU in Linux or just the CPU? AV1 is more demanding than VP9, and results may be different. Would like to see a zStandard accelerator in an SoC. Cast Inc. has some IP of older general compression algorithms but I have never seen it in the wild :)

[@GremlineQPl]

20:40 if you were looking for the stats for nerds option (or whatever it was called, the one to show dropped frames), you need to enable it in the KZbin app settings

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Thank you!

[@GremlineQPl]

@@TechnicallyUnsure no problem, I personally find this solution annoying, but I understand that not everyone on Android uses this option

[@pontoppidan_]

Cases for this mini beast?

[@novantha1]

Bugger, the one thing I really wanted to know was how much bandwidth the RAM on this board had; the difference between LPDDR4 and 5 is actually pretty important for my use case. Great coverage otherwise!

[@mr.iot-tech278]

Fantastic board i like it alot :)

[@blorbb5398]

This video is cool as a cucumber

[@jameshastings6538]

Can this board be used for NAS build like the RasPi5 with the Raxda SATA Hat? If so which would you recommend for a NAS build between the following? Odroid H4 Plus RasPi5 Raxda Rock 5 ITX or one of the other Raxda 5 boards. I’m trying to keep costs low as possible. I’m also open to other recommendations. My NAS will be mainly for movies I have made digital.

[@paullee107]

I can't find the fan - is the 5 max the same form factor as other orange pi 5 models???

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Yes, an Orange Pi 5 Pro fan can work on an Orange Pi Max. Not sure if I would recommend it, but this is the cooler I used www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807183983309.html

[@JazzTechie]

Geekworm also has the N515 case. Has a fan and smaller heatsinks that sit on top of the chips themselves.

[@ovalwingnut]

Outstanding "post edits"

[@LP_APUgamer]

Does flatpak work or snap to get latest kodi 21.1?

[@tehmessiah5617]

Is the GPIO layout the same RPi layout?

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Yes, I believe so

[@neandertalac]

Orange Pi is focusing on hardware and no software advances. Bad

[@Eriiiiiiiick]

NICE SBC SIR

[@andyjohnson5571]

MATCH BETWEEN MAX 5 AND RADXA X4 ?

[@JazzTechie]

N100 is faster, but I'll take a Max over an X4 any day of the week due to the I/O and board layout. I actually have both and the X4 is like ... I dunno... reminds me of if you accidentally mix in the wrong puzzle piece into a different box LOL.

[@ДмитроЖигалкін]

Difference also in nvme slot speeds, on max they're much faster then pro

[@kiodiekin]

I only see 7 cores. shouldnt there be 8? also try running a true 4k /8k video locally on the device not a yt video

[@arduinokuluckaincubator4711]

core numbers start from zero so it adds up to 8 cores

[@kiodiekin]

@@arduinokuluckaincubator4711 exactly. I only count 7 listed

[@kiodiekin]

there’s only 7 temp readings

[@arduinokuluckaincubator4711]

btop and htop shows 8 cores psensor shows 7 cores temp reading on mine

[@kamertonaudiophileplayer847]

I use it as home cloud server. It works fine for over an year fanless.

[@JenitzTimeline]

this model just release

[@kamertonaudiophileplayer847]

@@JenitzTimeline the new model is pretty much the same

[@impuls60]

But why is it so expensive? You can get n100 cpu in this formfactor now.

[@markokraljevic1590]

i have 3b, it practically doesn't have driver and OS support, Ethernet is broken

[@rorytruman]

i can't praise tbe pi 5 max enough as bang for buck. Ubuntu is awesome compared to rpi5. Though this does depend on your individual project requirements, as a pc or server for home projects then yes, orange pi5 max is awesome

[@igorpecovnik]

It is cheap because they invest absolutely nothing in software.

[@rorytruman]

@igorpecovnik agreed but ubuntu works flawlessly

[@igorpecovnik]

@@rorytruman they have nothing to do with that.

[@igorpecovnik]

@@rorytruman All Armbian forks works the same.

[@wskinnyodden]

That video is shit for testing, has no large movement in particular at the start which causes high pic changes between frames which is needed to properly test hardware decoding working properly.

[@CatalystReaction]

cute dns cache/travel router

[@wskinnyodden]

No HDMI In, like in the Rock 5B or NanoPC-T6, and that SOC has that feature, so that could be exposed the the user if wired. Why not use MiniHDMI for that instead of simply not adding it, boooooohooooo

[@albertcamus6611]

Can I have your watch? :)

[@Eriiiiiiiick]

SIR IT'S 3 AM YOU SHOULD SLEEP NOW SIR

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Haha, no, I just forgot to change the time zone

[@Eriiiiiiiick]

@@TechnicallyUnsure Its ok bro we're all out here workin hard