Introduction

Orange PI 3B is a cheap and attractive Raspberry Pi sized single board computer based on the Rockchip RK3566:

• Rockchip RK3566 (4x ARM Cortex-A55 @ 1.6GHz)

• ARM Mali-G52-2EE GPU (OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.1/3.2, Vulkan 1.1, OpenCL 2.0)

• LPDDR4 RAM (2/4/8 GB)

• Micro-SD card slot

• SPI flash (16/32 MB)

• Optional eMMC pluggable module (16/32/64/128/256 GB)

• Wi-Fi5 + Bluetooth 5.0, BLE

• 1x USB 2.0 Type A OTG, 2x USB 2.0 Type A HOST, 1x USB 3.0 Type A Host

Introduction

Five days ago, I received the Orange Pi RV2 board I ordered. For about 54 EUR / 64 USD (+ shipping), this board has very attractive features, in particular:

Top view - Source Orange Pi

• 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM (2 and 4 GB options exist)