RK3399 Orange Pi

[Igor]

First Rockchip RK3399 based board from Orangepi maker - under development, not much news except what can be scrapped from pictures. Chip: http://rockchip.wikidot.com/rk3399

 

 

[martinayotte]

Interesting !

[eli]

Power to the people!

[hojnikb]

hmmm, PC2 with 2gb of ram and this SoC for less than 35$ ? That would be interesting

 

Glad to see xunlong branching out of allwinner.

[tkaiser]

1 hour ago, martinayotte said:

Interesting !

 

Really? It follows RK3399 reference design pretty closely but adds an ASM1061 or maybe ASM1062 to attach a SATA disk. Regarding pricing and software support some information can already be found here: http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/11/25/firefly-rk3399-development-board-will-fly-with-rockchip-rk3399-hexa-core-processor/#comment-536776  (even same Ampak for non-crappy Wi-FI used here but what's the use case for an ARM board that costs as much as a real Mini PC?)

[Tido]

10 hours ago, tkaiser said:

what's the use case for an ARM board that costs as much as a real Mini PC?

A good question. There are tons of setop-box builders and I am sure other industries that could make use of "cheaper" development boards.

It ships with tons of connectors..

 

[hojnikb]

2 hours ago, Tido said:

It ships with tons of connectors..

 

 

13 hours ago, tkaiser said:

 

Really? It follows RK3399 reference design pretty closely but adds an ASM1061 or maybe ASM1062 to attach a SATA disk. Regarding pricing and software support some information can already be found here: http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/11/25/firefly-rk3399-development-board-will-fly-with-rockchip-rk3399-hexa-core-processor/#comment-536776  (even same Ampak for non-crappy Wi-FI used here but what's the use case for an ARM board that costs as much as a real Mini PC?)

 

Power efficiency, software made specially for arm platform ?

[AndroidPimp]

Hi. I am currently reviewing the Firefly RK3399 Plus Board, but its more expensiv. Based on the above photo,

the Orange Pi board will also have 4GB RAM.

 

[James Kingdon]

Hi @Igor

 

I'm curious where the info/photos came from - did you get a pre-release board? I'd love to get my hands on one (or more!) of these for testing.

[Igor]

It's from Xunlong, but boards are not yet ready for testing AFAIK.

[Larry Bank]

It's been 3 months - any update on the rk3399 board?

[valant]

On 25 Серпень 2017 р. at 7:03 PM, Larry Bank said:

It's been 3 months - any update on the rk3399 board?

I was told it will be "soon". at least we know it hasn't been abandoned.

[richardk]

I'd love to build a database/search cluster from stacks of Cortex A72 boards.  8GB RAM?  Just wishing...

 

[James Kingdon]

8 hours ago, richardk said:

I'd love to build a database/search cluster from stacks of Cortex A72 boards.  8GB RAM?  Just wishing...

 

If you want to experiment (or depending on your needs, move into production), packet rent Cavium ThunderX hosts for 50c/hr

 

https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/type-2a/

 

That gives you 96 cores at 2GHz with 128 GB of ram. It makes me feel both happy and slightly dizzy just thinking about it.

 

I intend to buy some time at some point and see how the individual cores stack up against things we can get our hands on. Which brings us back to the rk3399. Sure hope Orange are making progress with their board.

[umiddelb]

You can get an 8 GB, 8 Cores ARMv8 server for 12 EUR/month (and many other configurations) at Scaleway as well. 

[tkaiser]

Can anyone running a recent kernel please provide /proc/cpuinfo contents or even better output from 'sudo armbianmonitor -u' when running an image based on Armbian? I'm interested in differentiation strategies for the two CPU clusters.

 

 

Edited August 31, 2017 by tkaiser
Asked in wrong thread

[firepower]

Geekbuying are selling four Android TV boxes based on the RK3399 , The VORKE Z3 seems best specs.

Also there is a development board by Firefly-RK3399

These may be cheaper and available now option.

 

https://www.geekbuying.com/search?keyword=RK3399

 

Linux SDK for RK3399 for Videostrong VS-RD-RK3399 also sold by Geekbuying MECOOL Development Board RK3399

 

 

 

[Lion Wang]

On 28.8.2017 at 1:54 PM, valant said:

 

hmmm, PC2 with 2gb of ram and this SoC for less than 35$ ?

 

 

It's probably not going to be that price  soon, now the R3399 chip is about 20 USD

[valant]

On 13 Вересень 2017 р. at 7:59 AM, Lion Wang said:

 

It's probably not going to be that price  soon, now the R3399 chip is about 20 USD

it's a funny feature bug I encounter not the first time on forums, when the quote is marked as coming from a user which actually isn't a poster of it.

I didn't state that. I'd be glad if they fitted into ~100$ for it. Because what is already released, costs ~250$ (firefly, videostrong), hardly they would be selling it to their loss.

[James Kingdon]

20 hours ago, valant said:

I'd be glad if they fitted into ~100$ for it.

Me too. I'm itching for this board to come out. I keep looking at the firefly but it's going to cost me $$$ by the time I factor in the exchange rate, shipping and the hideous border duties. My guess is $100 would be at the low end of the possible price range for Orange, but the closer they can get to that the happier I will be.

 

The tv boxes look like great value, but I've had bad experiences with every tv box I've tried so far, so I want to see someone else get Linux up and running on one first  

[James Kingdon]

Sure is taking a long time for this board to appear. Hope they haven't dropped it.

[pbezza]

Its finally out.

[Larry Bank]

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Orange-Pi-RK3399-2GB-DDR3-16GB-EMMC-Cortex-A72-Type-C-Double-CSI-interface-Development-Board/32850569302.html

 

$114 with shipping from AliExpress. Interesting board. I don't have a specific use for it, but it's great to see more powerful ARM chips being offered as SBCs. 

[Larry Bank]

This is even more interesting. Pine64 is apparently going to release a low cost RK3399 board ($60!). Here are the details:

 

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5614

 

[TonyMac32]

At $60 that's a definite want.  At $110 you need to show me why I need all those connectors.  

[chrisf]

On 1/30/2018 at 4:05 AM, Larry Bank said:

This is even more interesting. Pine64 is apparently going to release a low cost RK3399 board ($60!). Here are the details:

 

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5614

 

March 15 is going to be "Order 4GB RK3399 board(s) day"

[pbezza]

I'll be there. Certainly an interesting bunch of board/s.

[JMCC]

There's something I don't get. It's been out for a few days already, and there is no OS image to download, even an Android one. What are you supposed to do with it after you buy it?

[TonyMac32]

8 hours ago, JMCC said:

What are you supposed to do with it after you buy it?

Gaze longingly at it's many ports and connectors.

[JMCC]

Finally an OS image: http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/

[ning]

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.5-c.w4002-9552179460.19.51b420baqekCuz&id=564484944766

 

699RMB  for pre-order.