Orange Pi CM5 released globally from $70 as new Raspberry Pi CM4 competitor
The Orange Pi CM5 is a new credit-card system-on-module (SoM) designed to rival the Raspberry Pi CM4. Currently available from $70 globally, the Orange Pi CM5 features a Rockchip RK3588S chipset, up to 16 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 256 GB of eMMC flash storage.
Orange Pi has released plenty of products of late, including the KunPeng Pro. Now it has introduced the CM5, which it has launched alongside the BPI-M5 Pro. While the BPI-M5 Pro is a full-sized single-board computer (SBC), the CM5 is a system-on-module (SoM) designed to rival the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4) (curr. $59 on Amazon). As such, the Orange Pi CM5 measures 55 x 40 x 1.6 mm and weighs a mere 12 g.
Like the Orange Pi 5, the Orange Pi CM5 utilises a Rockchip RK3588S chipset that features four ARM Cortex-A76 CPU cores, a Mali-G610 MP4 GPU and an NPU capable of delivering up to 6 TOPS of AI performance. Moreover, Orange Pi complements the 8 nm chipset with LPDDR4X RAM, eMMC flash storage and a variety of interfaces that can be used with the CM5 connected to a carrier board. Please see the image below for more details in this regard.
To that end, Orange Pi also offers a $20 carrier board that contains three Ethernet ports, an HDMI 2.1 port, a MicroSD card slot and several USB ports of differing standards. For reference, the CM5 is compatible with Android 12, Debian, Orange Pi OS and Ubuntu, the images for which you can find on the Orange Pi website along with Android and Linux source codes. Currently, the Orange Pi CM5 starts at $70 with 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage before including shipping and taxes. Full CM5 pricing is as follows:
- CM5 carrier board – $20
- 4 GB RAM/32 GB storage – $70
- 8 GB RAM/32 GB storage – $90
- 16 GB RAM/32 GB storage – $119
