The new Banana Pi board is the Raspberry Pi CM alternative you've been waiting for
Photo Credit: Banana Pi The device is based on the Rockchip PK3588 8nm SoC, featuring four 2.6GHz ARM Cortex-A76 cores and four 1.8GHz Cortex-A55 cores in DynamicIQ configuration. As for the rest of the technical specifications, we find an ARM Mali-G610 MP4 Odin GPU, capable of supporting OpenGLES 1.1, 2.0 and 3.2, as well as OpenCL 2.2 and Vulkan 1.2. Its 2D graphics engine supports resolutions up to 8K and can handle up to four monitors. Regarding multimedia capabilities, the GPU offers 8K video encoding at 30fps with the H.265, VP9, AVS2 and H.264 codecs.
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Photo Credit: Banana Pi In fact, we find three HDMI (presumably at least one in version 2.1 ), two Gigabit Ethernet, two SATA, three USB Type-A (two 2.0 and one 3.0), one USB Type-C, microSD slot, 3.5mm audio jack, ribbon connectors and what looks like a micro PCI 3.0 x4 slot . In short, everything you need to use Banana Pi BPI-R2 Pro for your daily needs.
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A couple of days ago, we also talked about a new kit developed by SiXFab which allows you to equip Raspberry Pi 4 with 5G connectivity through an expansion board and a small case to house everything. If you are interested, we advise you to read our previous dedicated article.
