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Decent competition for the popular Raspberry Pi 5
At the end of last year, the Raspberry Pi Foundation offered for sale a new model of the Raspberry Pi 5 desktop computer, which is equipped with four gigabytes or eight gigabytes of system memory and a Broadcom BCM2712 processor, manufactured with the help of #141 16-nanometer technology. For data calculation, the #141 uses four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A76 processor cores with a frequency of 2.4 gigahertz. Graphics are handled by the integrated VideoCore VII graphics core, which provides support for the OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan 1.2 graphics libraries and the advanced MESA driver.
The Rock 5A Pink Edition is an affordable version of the Rock 5A, pre-configured with 16 GB of LPDDR4x RAM. The Rock 5A Pink Edition, which retails for slightly more than $100, it is said to be powerful enough to surpass the Raspberry Pi 5, the most powerful option in the Raspberry Pi ecosystem.
As far as we can tell from the available information, the Rock 5A Pink Edition carries over all the key specifications of the original Rock 5A computer.
Radxa equips all Rock 5A units with a Rockchip RK3588S chip and LPDDR4x RAM memory, eMMC 5.1 flash memory and a MicroSD card reader. In addition, the SBC has a key M.2 E for small SSD drives, Ä although all drives are limited to PCIe 2.1 and SATA 3.0 speeds. The Rock 5A also has a 40-pin GPIO header, a USB Type-C port for power, and a pair of HDMI 2.1 ports.
The Rock 5A Pink Edition is available with 16GB of RAM at an MSRP of $159.
