Orange Pi 4 is yet another Rockchip RK3399 SBC with 4GB RAM, while Orange Pi 4B adds Gyrfalcon Lightspeeur 2801A AI Accelerator.
The company has now launched the board on both Aliexpress and their newly opened Amazon store with three options:
Orange Pi 4 with no eMMC flash ā $56.90
Orange Pi 4 with 16GB eMMC flash ā $64.90
Orange Pi 4B with 16GB eMMC flash, Gyrfalcon NPU ā $80.99
Quick reminder of Orange Pi 4/4B specifications:
SoC ā Rockchip K3399 hexa-core big.LITTLE processor with two Arm Cortex A72 cores, four Cortex A53 cores, and an ARM Mali-T860 MP4 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 1.1 to 3.1 support, OpenVG1.1, OpenCL and DX 11
System Memory ā 4 GB LPDDR4
Storage ā Optional 16 GB eMMC flash, micro SD card
NPU (Orange Pi 4B only) ā Gyrfalcon Lightspeeur SPR2801S NPU delivering up to 2.8TOPS @ 300mW, 5.6 TOPS @ 100 MHz (peak performance)
Video Output/Display Interface
HDMI 2.0 up to 4K @ 60 Hz
LCD connector for MIPI DSI display
USB-C port with DisplayPort Alternate mode
Video Decode ā 4K VP9 and 10-bit H.265 video codec support up to 60 fps
Audio ā 3.5mm audio jack for headphones; HDMI digital audio output; built-in microphone; ALC5651 codec
Connectivity ā Gigabit Ethernet port (via RTL8211E transceiver), dual-band 802.11ac 2Ć2 MIMO WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 (Ampak AP6256 module)
Orange Pi 4 ā 1x USB 3.0 port, 2x USB 2.0 host ports, 1x USB 3.0 type C port
Orange Pi 4B ā 2x USB 2.0 host ports, 1x USB 3.0 type C port
Camera ā 2x camera headers
Debugging ā 3-pin serial header
40-pin GPIO 2.54mm pitch female header with 2x I2C, 1x SPI/UART, 8x GPIO, etcā¦
24-pin connector for PCIe signals
Dimensions ā 91 x 56 mm
The company will provide Android 8.1, Ubuntu 16.04/18.04, and Debian 9 for the board, but at the time of writing the information has yet to be posted on their Download page. Gyrfalcon Lightspeeur SPR2801S NPU on Orange Pi 4B should be using the same SDK as Orange Pi AI Stick Lite USB neural compute stick since itās connected to one of Rockchip RK3399 processorās USB 3.0 interfaces.
The price of Orange Pi 4B is really impressive, as last year youād have to pay about the same price just with the USB stick. Orange Pi 4 is also good value as at $49.90 itās the cheapest Rockchip RK3399 board with 4GB RAM.
For comparison, FriendlyELEC NanoPi M4 is $50 but with only 2GB RAM, while Pine64 RockPro64 starts at $59.99 with 2GB RAM. Both are available with 4GB but at around $80.