A NEW Rockchip CPU RK3576. Mekotronics R57

[@srvuk]

Nice to see Kodi getting some love, where is does work better under Android on the RK3588. However, I would like to see if the files that were played were being played with hardware acceleration (press the O key during playback as I am sure that you know). And to also see if HDR 10 bit files play at all (and AV1). It may well be that because it uses an older GPU, the drivers may potentially be more mature and not lagging behind as it is in the RK3588 after all this time. The Android image sadly seems to be another example of something being taken from a tablet, which you can often see from some of the settings options. It would be nice to see an Android image that at least looks as if it has been tweaked to maximise the options offered by the OS and hardware. Ditto thoughts about an Armbian image that may well also have better GPU/VPU drivers. So it may well be that this SOC could be very well suited to media playback and potentially be superior to the RPI5 in this respect. I'd love to see KZbin playback through a browser and how the WEBGL Aquarium looks. Although looking at the benchmark scores, RK3576 devices may have to be more keenly priced in order to compete with the RPI5. Mekotronics is not renowned for offering the best overall value that would attract a greater market share.

[@renobodyrenobody]

Very interesting, thanks for all you video allowing us to have a perspective on all these products.

[@tafkawac]

Thanks as always. 8k video playback is awesome. Pi5 struggles with 4k. Can't wait to see how this is with Armbian.

[@Kw1161]

Thanks Lee for this information and review. Looks like I will stick with the RK3588 system…😊! Have a great day!

[@31_Bas_NL_26]

Hello, I have now couple of weeks the new android box with rk3376 chip but for me it works for video and sound fast and smooth but I don't play games. Iam happy with it, only little bit info not mutch. Greet Bas

[@TBMartin]

Have you used your Quest 2 with your RPI5 yet?

[@leepspvideo]

@@TBMartin only with my Pi4 Scrcpy. mirror & control your Android device. Raspberry Pi. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2ashaF7apVjapY

[@TBMartin]

@@leepspvideo Did you try with Termux?

[@TBMartin]

@@leepspvideo Do you own Virtual Desktop? I can multitask and use Windows & A Raspberry Pi 5 that way too without other apps. Run VD on your Quest. On mine I can have up to 3 virtual screens. So on one I can have Windows, in the other I have a web browser open in full screen running Raspberry Pi Connect. Probably the easiest way

[@JazzTechie]

Need standardized and relatable performance tests outside of video games and youtube for devices like these. Admittedly, this channel's audience is primarily desktop end users, so a piece of hardware that can drive giant 4K video screens while running AI tasks at just 2 amps will probably fly over people's heads lol.

[@leepspvideo]

@@JazzTechie I used Geekbench 6 so others can compare

[@JazzTechie]

@@leepspvideo- For example: a hypothetical industrial usage being demoed. This one has video input and AI, so maybe the standardized test is feeding in a five minute video of a busy warehouse, and seeing if it's able to keep up at 4k/1080/720, how many FPS it can handle, was everything detected in the object detection task, etc. Just food for thought

[@alevans51]

There we go again, Android. Not until it runs Linux can this device really make a difference to computer geeks.

[@An.Individual]

I keep checking these devices for a SATA port. So I can attach 2* 3.5" HDD. They never have one.😭

[@nopadelik9286]

Several Banana Pi sbcs come with a SATA port, often arm sbc may be equipped with a SATA hat, also you could just go the x86 sbc route, these usually have much more I/O. It's a price question i'd say.

[@An.Individual]

@nopadelik9286 power consumption seems to be weakness of x86 so I'm hoping the compute module 5 will have SATA

[@nopadelik9286]

@@An.Individual I just did read an in-depth review of the new Odroid H4 plus which comes with an Intel N97, m2 slot, four SATA ports, 2* 2,5Gbit RJ45, HDMI, Displayport etc, and according to that review the power consumption seemed moderate to me.. Headless idle 2,0-2,9 watts Desktop GUI idle 6,2 watts CPU & GPU stress test 19-22 watts What i don't like about them is that they are a bit pricey, more then 200bucks over here where i live for the bare sbc.

[@leepspvideo]

@@An.Individual most Arm devices are 5V and won’t have support for the 12v that 3.5” drives use. How about one of these amzn.to/4bZ1P8f

[@patrpatl]

What is a Rockchip rk3576 doing in this world.

[@TBMartin]

Lower cost. Remember these are not consumer but industrial so why not?

[@kevinsteinman8967]

@@TBMartin Hrmn I don't know of any company that uses them at all. We basically use the rk3588 or RBpi 4's and moving to the RBpi 5's in Thermal Engineering. Trust me there is no lower cost for anything in industry and mostly 5 times the price due to all the baggage that goes with using said devices for monitoring purposes and how they have to be tested.

[@srvuk]

@@TBMartin The SOC is already appearing in Android TV boxes for around £60/$73

[@TBMartin]

What's the point of giving the right answer when it's ignored anyway? lol

[@Sorbus79]

What's with the flashing light on the power button? Do you think it's unhappy about something?

[@leepspvideo]

@@Sorbus79 standby mode

[@tyranny28]

Is there not an issue with these TV boxes firmware images coming pre loaded with Malware?

[@leepspvideo]

@@tyranny28 this is not a TV box.

[@lee99bay]

❤

[@kolotxoz]

Rpi is 4 core only?, seems weird such high single core score but regular multi core numbers

[@An.Individual]

was in another video recently, may have been one of JeffG channels. He said the memory stopped the 4 cores from scaling properly. so only 2x faster when you expect 4x

[@uniquetechchip]

👌👌👌

[@Hakimi202]

Brawl stare please

[@mrbub69]

Can you help me? When I try to boot windows from my raspberry pi 5 it shows this error apci_bios_error