Orange Pi 5 Ultra Single-Board Computer With AI Accelerator Released
Shenzhen Xunlong Software has quietly updated its Orange Pi 5 series with a new model. By comparison, the company released the Orange Pi 5 Max ($145.99 on Amazon) in the summer. Now, it has unveiled the Orange Pi 5 Ultra, which sounds like an improved version of the Orange Pi 5 Max at first glance.
The Orange Pi 5 Ultra single-board computer can carry 4, 8 or 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory and an eMMC flash module with a capacity of up to 256 GB. There is a microSD slot and an M.2 2280 connector for SSD with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. There is an ES8388 audio codec, a 2.5 GbE network controller (RTL8125BG), Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 (AP6611S) adapters.
The product received an HDMI 2.1 output (8Kp60) and an HDMI 2.0 input (4Kp60), which is missing from the Orange Pi 5 Max version. In addition, there are two USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, an RJ-45 socket for a network cable, a 3.5 mm audio jack, a 40-pin GPIO header (UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, PWM), MIPI DSI (4 lines), 2×MIPI CSI (4 lines), MIPI D-DPHY Rx (4 lines) interfaces. Power is supplied via the USB Type-C port. Dimensions are 89×57 mm, weight is 60.5 g. The chip includes an NPU block with a performance of up to 6 TOPS for performing AI operations (INT4/INT8/INT16/FP16). It is possible to decode 8Kp60 H.265/VP9/AVS2 video and encode 8Kp30 H.265/H.264.
The Orange Pi 5 Ultra is currently only available on AliExpress, where it sells for $125 with 16GB of RAM. With that in mind, it looks like Shenzhen Xunlong Software is looking to bring its new SBC to Amazon at some point.
