Hi all.
I've made a review video about the Orange Pi+ and Orange Pi+2.
2 very alike boards, both with the Allwinner H3, and both have SATA on-board.
I use my OPi+2 as NAS, and love it for that.
I've found out a few interesting things about differences of performance and temperatures with different kernels.
Here is my review video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MytAhSrycLQ
Here all my gathered information.
Code:
OPi+ OPi+2
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Specs specs
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Allwinner H3 quad-core Cortex-A7 Max 1.37Ghz
Mali400MP2
1GB ddr3 2GB ddr3
8GB eMMC 16GB eMMC
10/100 Ethernet Gbit ethernet
CSI
4 x USB2 type A + 1 USB2 OTG
Barrel Jack
SATA
40 pin gpio
wifi 2.4Ghz
3.5 mm Jack + microphone
Released February 2015 December 2015
Transfer speeds OPi+
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read write acces time
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On-board sd-card 23.6 MB/s 21.7 MB/s 0.51 msec
eMMC 8GB 85.2 MB/s 25 MB/s 0.55 msec write goes from 30 MB/s to 15 MB/s
SATA HD2.5" 256GB 35 MB/s 15.5 MB/s 23.90 msec
USB2 HD 1.5TB 35 MB/s 34 MB/s 15.64 msec
SFTP file transfer 14 MB/s 11.4 MB/s 1.5TB HDD to NanoPi M4V2
zram 1.4 GB/s 0.01 msec
Internet ethernet 44.3 Mbps 11.5 Mbps 11.0 msec 5.5MB/s
Transfer speeds OPi+2
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read write acces time
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On-board sd-card 23.6 MB/s 21.6 MB/s 0.51 msec
eMMC 16GB 81.5 MB/s 21.5 MB/s 0.35 msec write starts at 44 MB/s and then goes down to 10 MB/s
USB2 SamsungBar 24.7 MB/s 12.3 MB/s 0.89 msec
USB2 SSD to USB3 38.2 MB/s 34.4 MB/s 0.72 msec
SFTP file transfer 17 MB/s 10 MB/s
SATA HDD2.5" 256GB 31 MBs 15.1 MB/s 23.86 msec
zram Armbian Focal 0.87GB/s 0.01 msec
zram Armbian Buster 1.0 GB/s 0.01 msec
zram Armbian Bionic 1.2 GB/s 0.01 msec
Internet over wifi 18.9 Mbps 11.59 Mbps 27.0 msec
SD-Card used is a 128GB Sandisk Extreme
OrangePi+ | Clock S/C | B/C | Blender | 7z S/C | 7Z Multi | glxgears | CPUMiner | SBCBench
Armbian Bionic 1.37Ghz 1h43m52s 1085 3640 http://ix.io/2DeH heatsink no fan throttle to 1.3Ghz at 80C, lower at 85C OPi+
Armbian Bionic 1.37Ghz 1h36m39s 1083 3870 http://ix.io/2Dah heatsink + fan Opi+
OrangePi+/+2 | Clock S/C | B/C | Blender | 7z S/C | 7Z Multi | glxgears | CPUMiner | SBCBench
Armbian Buster 1.37Ghz 1076 3927 http://ix.io/2CWo heatsink + fan / Blender unstable at all frequencies
Armbian Buster 1.37Ghz 1077 3447/3230 http://ix.io/2Dgr heatsink no fan
Armbian Focal 1.37Ghz 1024 3451 http://ix.io/2D9s heatsink + fan / Blender 2.82, doesn't work
Armbian Bionic 1.37Ghz 1h49m36s 1078 3810 http://ix.io/2Dbg heatsink + fan
Armbian Bionic 1.37Ghz 1076 3380 http://ix.io/2DgC heatsink no fan
Temperatures
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All with performance governor and 1.37Ghz. Idle will be lower with ondemand or lower clockspeed
OPi+ with kernel 4.19.62 vs OPi+ with kernel 5.8.5 / 1080p has higher temperatures than 720p
No fan idle OPi+ 48C 720p 52C 1080p
No fan maxed OPi+ Throttle at 75C to 1.3Ghz at 80C to 1.2Ghz doesn't go higher than 80C
Fan idle OPi+ 27C
Fan maxed OPi+ 54C
No fan idle OPi+2 58C
No fan maxed OPi+2 Throttle at 75C to 1.3Ghz, 80C 1.2Ghz and lower at 85C lower. Barely reaches 85C
Fan idle OPi+2 33C
Fan maxed OPi+2 60C 2 heatsinks+fan 64C with 1 heatsink+fan
Power consumption
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Idle nothing connected : 0.45 A -|> 2.25W
Maxed out nothing connected : 0.9 A -|> 4.5W
Youtube Playback
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@720p display res 480p youtube with Firefox. Max 720p30fps
Remarks
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Focal performs less while running hotter? OPi+ runs cooler than OPi+2. Both Armbian Focal, the same task, OPi+2 even 2 heatsinks vs 1 the same lower heatsink. OPi+2 with 1 heatsink runs even hotter. 10C difference
Debian Buster can't run Blender stable. Always crashes after about 30minutes.
Focal can't run Blender. 2.82 in repo. Can't run without OpenGL 3.3
Runs best at 720p
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Uses modern mainline kernel
SATA + Power for 2.5" HDD
eMMC, so no SD-card needed
Well supported by Armbian
WIFI
Good enough for NAS
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Aging armhf architecture
Needs good cooling when used maxed out. Heatsink sufficient for light tasks. Fan needed for maxed out tasks
OPi+ doesn't have Gbit ethernet. So don't buy it anymore. OPi+2 has better specs
Not powerful enough to be used as desktop (of course it isn't)
Does not shutdown on its own
Bad naming. OPi1+, OPiZero+, OPi+2e...
Greetings, NicoD