Radxa Releases Cheap RK3399-Based Rock Pi 4 Development Board
ROCK Pi 4 is a Rockchip RK3399 based SBC(Single Board Computer) by Radxa. It can run android or some Linux distributions. It offers “class-leading performance while leveraging outstanding mechanical compatibility”. The RK3399 SoC packs a quad-core 1.5GHz Cortex-A53 with a dual-core 2GHz Cortex-A72 in a big.LITTLE arrangement, along with a Mali T860MP4 GPU. Radxa offers two versions of the board — the Model A, and Model B, both featuring the same SoC and most of the same hardware, but diverge in the connectivity options. It should be noted as well, that each board features increased amounts of RAM options — 1/2/4Gb of LPDDR4, depending on your preferences.
Close look of ROCK Pi 4B
As far as the rest of the hardware is concerned, both boards offer an eMMC socket, micro SD card slot (up to 128Gb), M.2 NVME SSD socket, and 40-pin GPIO. They also pack an HDMI 2.0a port, MIPI CSI2 camera connector, 3.5mm audio jack, 2X USB 2.0 ports, 1X USB 3.0 port, 1X USB 3.0 OTG port, RTC, and Ethernet GbE LAN.
Difference between Model A and B are the connectivity options, as the latter has integrated 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, onboard ceramic antenna and an option for PoE via Raspberry Pi’s PoE HAT. Both boards can “officially” support Android, Debian, and Ubuntu, but chances are you can probably run most anything Linux-based.
Talk About Rock Pi4
Features
| Model | ROCK PI 4 Model A | ROCK PI 4 Model B |
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| Processor | 64bits hexa core processor Rockchip RK3399 Dual Cortex-72, frequency 1.8GHz with qual Cortex-A53, frequency 1.4GHz Mali T860MP4 gpu, support OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.1/3.2, Vulkan 1.0, Open CL 1.1 1.2, DX11. |
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| Memory | LPDDR4 64bit dual channel LPDDR4@3200Mb/s, 1GB/2GB/4GB optioal |
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| Storage | eMMC module (Optional industrial compatible high performance eMMC module, 8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB/128GB available) uSD card (uSD slot supports up to 128 GB uSD card) M.2 SSD (M.2 connector supports up to 2T M2 NVME SSD) |
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| Display | HDMI 2.0 up to 4k@60 MIPI DSI 2 lanes via FPC connector HDMI and MIPI DSI can work at the same time, support mirror mode or extend mode. |
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| Audio | 3.5mm jack with mic HD codec that supports up to 24-bit/96KHz audio. |
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| Camera | MIPI CSI 2 lanes via FPC connector, support up to 800 MP camera. | |
| Wireless | None | 802.11 ac wifi Bluetooth 5.0 with on board antenna |
| USB | USB 3.0 OTG X1, hardware switch for host/device switch, upper one USB 3.0 HOST X1, dedicated USB 3.0 channel, lower one USB 2.0 HOST X2 |
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| Ethernet | GbE LAN | GbE LAN with PoE support additional HAT is required for powering from PoE |
| IO | 40-pin expansion header 1 x UART 2 x SPI bus 2 x I2C bus 1 x PCM/I2S 1 x SPDIF 1 x PWM 1 x ADC 6 x GPIO 2 x 5V DC power in 2 x 3.3V DC power in |
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| Others | RTC RTC battery connector for time backup(optioal) |
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| Power | USB PD, support USB Type C PD 2.0, 9V/2A, 12V/2A, 15V/2A, 20V/2A. Qualcomm® Quick ChargeTM: Supports QC 3.0/2.0 adapter, 9V/2A, 12V/1.5A |
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| Size | 85mm x 54mm | |
The Radxa Team has tried our best and pushed our limits for the hardware design of the ROCK Pi 4 on every aspects. The hardware has been revised multiple times and now v1.3 is the massive production version.
Radxa hasn’t provided a release date for the Rock Pi 4 line as of yet.
