The Radxa Fan 4012 is 2P and currently work with pico-itx boards only(3B/5B/VisionFive), not the pi form factor because of the size limitation.
Introduce ROCK 5B - ARM Desktop level SBC
Is there any ETA on the board? Even a rough estimate?
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Iām wondering the same thing. A popular youtuber made two videos featuring the rk3588 soc and oh my! I canāt wait the the single board computer powered by this amazing soc
@radxa, I havenāt found the answer in the thread. Do you know if the penta hat available for the rock 4 will be compatible with the rock 5?
If i may ask. Is that 100% profit a typo or it was meant as a sarcasm? Canāt figure that out definitively as english is not my mother tongue. Thank you in advance.
Nope but incorrectly worded really I read somewhere the markup is about 100% for raspberry on build cost to actual sale when they have packaged and delivered I think they make about 10% on each board.
They have huge sales that are massively automated and that is how they employ so many engineers and staff whilst still providing such low cost boards.
You can check there accounts but doesnāt break down to actual build cost just gross cost which they include a lot of overheads but a Pi in build cost is prob more than half its final sale value.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08207441/filing-history
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Now i think i can understand your point better. Thank you very much for the clarification.
If Radax allow, in order to help none technical people appreciate the RK3588 performance abilities. Here are real world uses.
Here is the vastly expensive firefly 3588 running game emulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrEmmXMXzXU
The Mekotronics R58X RK3588 running Debian 11 OS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzNV5gL0A5k
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Does the board have 2x CSI connectors as mentioned here https://linuxgizmos.com/rock-5-sbc-features-octa-core-rk3588-16gb-ram-and-triple-displays/
Or is it one MIPI-CSI and one MIPI-DSI?
Itās 1x MIPI CSI 4 lanes that can be split into two 2-lanes MIPI CSI.
Will it be possible to do 4K editing on this board?
Picked up a DJI drone the other day but noticed my MBP did not have the horsepower to even play the video video content H265(mov) or H264(mp4), even less for editing.
If yes, 16Gb ram i recomended(or 8Gb will perform equal)?
Page 10: H.265 HEVC/MVC Main10 L6.1 : 8K@60fps (7680x4320)
These days i believe almost all fairly new SOCs support hardwareacceleration when it comes to decoding H.265 and such.
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In case anyone is wondering about RK3588S real world performance. Eta Prime just posted a YouTube video testing beta Android 12 ( no Google Play ) gaming on a Firefly SBC.
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Are there any power consumption estimates for Idle and Load?
Hoping for a compact case 
Not much info but with the above ETA hated the heat from the RK3399 and is all praise for the RK3588s as the active heatsinks are pretty small but if you where to go passive then as in there nature pretty huge usually.
Guess you will have to check what you think
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I have a wifi 6/AX card ,itās an m.2 ax201 with E key
will this board support it and are there 2 m.2 lot on this board?
can I still use M.2 SSD if I have M.2 wifi card installed ?
and does the $5 for the preorder coupon go toward the final purchase price of the board?
what are the chances of seeing a Batocera build or recall box for this board?
Ameridroid is listing the Rock 5 Model B at higher prices than what is listed here before the $50 off coupon.
4gb - $144.95
8gb - $169.95
16gb - $219.95
Are these prices correct or should I go with the other distributor?
They also need to eat
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I have a wifi 6/AX card ,itās an m.2 ax201 with E key
will this board support it and are there 2 m.2 lot on this board?
Yes, 5B has two m.2 slot.
can I still use M.2 SSD if I have M.2 wifi card installed ?
Yes, of course.
and does the $5 for the preorder coupon go toward the final purchase price of the board?
Yes.
what are the chances of seeing a Batocera build or recall box for this board?
We are not sure of this yet.
Emuelec seems to always put out an image for the Zero amlogic based boards and not sure if there is a specific Rockchip version that is the same where really much under the hood is Batocera.
With the RK3588 having such a strong GPU I doubt you will be able to keep the emulator guys away from it as for them its an amazing platform.
You have already seen some of the reviews and emulator results on what are very early builds, but with just being a community member I would say its near certain it will attract a collection of emulator images.
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