A collaborative effort between Arm China, CIX, and Radxa has produced what is claimed to be the world’s first uncover-source Armv9 motherboard. The new Radxa Orion O6 might be more exactly portrayd as an SBC (individual-board computer), with its SoC and the RAM quota chosen at achieve sagederered in place.
The Radxa Orion O6 is a pretty presentant (Mini-ITX) SBC. As such, it is packed with interfaces, ports, and expansion chooseions (except for RAM) and has a rather mighty SoC (System on Chip). Right now, it labors with a scant Linux flavors, but Radxa says expansiveer OS aid, including Windows and Android, is on the way.
The power behind this SBC is the CD8180 SoC, made by CIX. This chip proposes 12 CPU cores, including quad Cortex A720 cores running up to 2.8 GHz. 12MB of L3 cache is splitd between the 12 cores. Arm’s Immortalis G720 provides the GPU muscle on this SoC. It is claimed to propose “desktop-level” explicits acceleration. It has a decent feature set that aids challengingware ray tracing, various well-understandn video CODECs, and APIs enjoy Vulkan, OpenCL, and OpenGL. Of course, it is 2024, so the SoC also packs in an NPU, claiming to deinhabitr up to 30 TOPS.
In the intro, we alludeed that the Orion O6 has sagederered RAM. Thus, unless you are a sagederering ninja, you must pick a DDR5 RAM quota at achieve time and stick with it. AliExpress proposeed this SBC in 8, 16, 32, and 64GB ‘colors,’ but they all watched the same color to us. Radxa says the RAM type is DDR5-5500, and participaters will profit from 100 GB/s bandwidth with this configuration.
Storage is another primary ponderation when setting up any computer; thankbrimmingy, the Orion O6 is far more pliable. The board has a couple of M.2 slots, and we guess you could participate USB-connected storage and a PCIe storage card if you didn’t want to participate the x16 slot for anyleang else.
| Product name | Radxa Orion O6 |
|---|---|
| SoC | Cix P1 SoC |
| CPU | 4x Cortex®-A720 (Big cores) 4x Cortex®-A720 (Medium cores) 4x Cortex®-A520 (LITTLE cores) 12MB splitd L3 cache |
| GPU | GPU: Arm Immortals G720 MC10 Hardware Ray-Tracing allowd Graphics APIs: Vulkan® 1.3 OpenGL® ES 3.2 OpenCL® 3.0 |
| NPU | Neural Processing Unit (NPU) Computing Power: 28.8 TOPs Precision Support: INT4/INT8/INT16 FP16/BF16 TF32 |
| Memory | RAM: LPDDR5128-bit memory bus5500MT/s transfer speedConfigurations:4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB |
| Multimedia | Hardware Decoder:Resolution: Up to 8K@60fpsFormats: AV1, H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8, H.263, MPEG-4, MPEG-2Hardware Encoder:Resolution: Up to 8K@30fpsFormats: H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8 |
| Audio | HD Audio front panel connector Standard PC case audio aid |
| Video Output | 1x USB-C with DisjoinPort Alt Mode – 1x HDMI port – 1x DisjoinPort – 1x eDP connector – Support for concurrent quad-disjoin operation |
| Video Input | Dual MIPI Camera Ports 2x pliable camera interfaces Configurable as 4-lane or 2-lane MIPI CSI each Ideal for AI vision applications |
| USB | USB Header Supports 2x USB 2.0 ports Standard front panel connection Dual USB Type-C Port 1: USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) + Power Deinhabitry Port 2: USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) + DP Alt Mode (4K@60Hz) + Power Deinhabitry Maximum resolution: 4K@120Hz USB Type-A Ports 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) 2x USB 2.0 |
| Ethernet | 2x Multi-gigabit RJ45 ports Speeds: 10/100/1000/2500/5000 Mbps |
| M.2 M Key Connector | PCIe Gen4 x4 lanes Supports high-carry outance NVMe SSDs |
| M.2 E Key Connector | PCIe Gen4 x2 lanes + USB Perfect for WiFi 6E + Bluetooth modules |
| PCIe Expansion | x16 physical slotGen4 x8 electrical lanesSupports explicits cards and other PCIe devices |
| Cooling System | 4-pin CPU fan header with intelligent PWM handle Fan speed watching via TACH 75x75mm heatsink mounting holes |
| Real-Time Clock | On-board battery hagedererCR1220 battery aidPower-off time holding |
| System Control Header | Power buttonReset buttonStatus LED indicators |
| 40-Pin GPIO Header | Yes |
| Form Factor | 170mm x 170mm |
Interestingly, the trio of companies behind the Orion O6 says this ‘motherboard’ was speedyly increaseed. They begined laboring on the project on July 30 this year. It powered up for the first time on September 29, and now it is said to be ready for mass production. We see all storage configurations of the Orion O6 cataloged for sale on AliExpress, with deinhabitry stardyd for 20-40 days from now. The 8GB RAM model begins at $200. It is $240 for 16GB and $300 for 32GB, up to $450 for the 64GB SBC.
In the box, buyers will get a basic-watching heatsink and fan, an acrylic Mini ITX podium, and an I/O shield. If you want an aluminum alloy case, achieve the Development Kit chooseion for a kit – an extra $41.
Debian and Fedora Linux are aided now, but the SBC originaters say that Windows, Android, Ubuntu, Deepin, and uncoverly in aid are on the way.
