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The Banana Pi M7


My quest for high-powered ARM development boards has progressed a bit spottily over the past few months, but after almost three months of te...

It’s a full RK3588(4xA76/2.4GHz cores and 4xA55/1.8GHz cores, plus a Mali-G610 GPU and an NPU) An underside M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0x4 NVMe slot (leveraging the PCIe 3.0 lanes the 3588 provides) Dual 2.5GbE ports, plus integrated WiFi 6/BT 5 HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4 (8K30) via USB-C (sadly, incapable of taking power, but it does have a separate USB-C PD port, which is very nice) The usual set of GPIO pins, plus multiple DSI and CSI camera and display connectors) As usual, the board came without a cooling solution (the add-on metal case seems to have an internal bulge for heat dissipation, but mine hasn’t yet arrived), so I used my trademark copper blocks: I don't place much stock on WebGL benchmarks, but this was a decent showing in Jammy.Overall, the Armbian experience was very good, with the usual caveats about the RK3588 ’s GPU drivers (which are still a bit flaky, but noticeably in use).

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