Radxa Launches Rock Pi N10 RK3999Pro SBC with Integrated NPU

15th December 2019 Harshvardhan Mishra

Radxa has officially launched the Rock Pi N10, a single-board computer based around the Rockchip RK3399Pro system-on-chip (SOC) and featuring a co-processor offering up to 3 TOPS of deep-learning performance for compatible workloads.

Radxa’s Rock Pi 4 is already a famous board and nest alternative of Raspberry Pi. In Rock Pi N10, N for Next. It made for specially AI, Multimedia and other Professional works. The ROCK Pi N10 has three models, one called ROCK Pi N10 Model A and the other two called ROCK Pi N10 Model B and Model C.

Overall specifications of the Rock Pi N10 aren’t a million miles away from those of the recently-launched Orange Pi 4 B: Both use the RK3999, both feature a neural networking co-processor with around 3 TOPS of compute, and both start with 4GB of RAM. The Rock Pi N10, however, doesn’t stop there, offering a choice of 4GB, 6GB, or 8GB of LPDDR3 memory shared between the CPU with its twin 1.8GHz Arm Cortex-A72 and quad 1.4GHz Cortex-A53 cores, the Arm Mali T860MP4 GPU, and the NPU.

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ROCKPiN10 supports Debian 9 Desktop, Ubuntu 18.04 server, Fedora Desktop, and Android 8.1, as well as AI development tools such as Rock-X set of rapid AI components, RKNN-API C API, and RKNN-Toolkit Python API of RKNN (Rockchip Neural Network). You’ll find all the information to get started and hardware documentation on the wiki.

Seeed Studio has begun taking pre-orders for the Rock Pi N10 family with aggressive pricing: The base 4GB/16GB model sits at $99, the 6GB/32GB version at $129, and the top-end 8GB/64GB version at $169.

Rock Pi N10 Features

Model	ROCK PI N10 Model A	ROCK PI N10 Model B	ROCK PI N10 Model C
SoC CPU GPU NPU	RK3399Pro Dual Cortex-A72, freqency 1.8Ghz with quad Cortex-A53, frequency 1.4Ghz Mali T860MP4, OpenGL ES 1.1 /2.0 /3.0 /3.1 /3.2, Vulkan 1.0, Open CL 1.1 1.2, DX11 Support 8bit/16bit computing, up to 3.0TOPs computing power
Memory	LPDDR3 4GB 64bit dual channel LPDDR3@1866Mb/s, 3GB for CPU/GPU, 1GB for NPU	LPDDR3 6GB 64bit dual channel LPDDR3@1866Mb/s, 4GB for CPU/GPU, 2GB for NPU	LPDDR3 8GB 64bit dual channel LPDDR3@1866Mb/s, 4GB for CPU/GPU, 4GB for NPU
Storage	on board high performance eMMC 16GB	on board high performance eMMC 32GB	on board high performance eMMC 64GB
Storage	4MB SPI flash μSD card (μSD slot supports up to 128 GB μSD card) M.2 SSD (M.2 connector supports up to 8TB M2 NVME SSD)
Display	HDMI 2.0 up to 4k2k@60 MIPI DSI 2 lanes via FPC connector 4 lanes eDP 1.3, up to 4K2K@60 Any two of HDMI, MIPI DSI and eDP can work at the same time, support mirror mode or extend mode.
Audio	3.5mm jack with mic HD codec that supports up to 24-bit/96KHz audio.
Camera	MIPI CSI 2 lanes via FPC connector, support up to 800 MP camera.
Wireless	None. Optional ROCK Pi Wireless Module
USB	USB 3.0 OTG X1, hardware switch for host/device switch, front one USB 2.0 HOST X2
Ethernet	GbE LAN with Power over Ethernet (PoE) support additional HAT is required for powering from PoE
IO	40-pin expansion header 2 x UART 2 x SPI bus 3 x I2C bus 1 x PCM/I2S 1 x SPDIF 2 x PWM 1 x ADC 6 x GPIO 2 x 5V DC power in 2 x 3.3V DC power in
Others	RTC RTC battery connector for time backup(optional) KEY Maskrom key, reset key IR IR Receiver
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
Size	100mm x 100mm

General purpose input-output (GPIO) connector

ROCK Pi N10 has a 40-pin expansion header. Each pin is distinguished by color.

GPIO number	Function3	Function2	Function1	Pin#	Pin#	Function1	Function2	GPIO number
			+3.3V	1	2	+5.0V
71		I2C7_SDA	GPIO2_A7	3	4	+5.0V
72		I2C7_SCL	GPIO2_B0	5	6	GND
13			GPIO0_B5	7	8	GPIO4_C4	UART2_TXD	148
			GND	9	10	GPIO4_C3	UART2_RXD	147
146		PWM0	GPIO4_C2	11	12	GPIO0_B1		9
150		PWM1	GPIO4_C6	13	14	GND
149		SPDIF_TX	GPIO4_C5	15	16	GPIO0_B0		8
			+3.3V	17	18	GPIO2_A6		70
40	UART4_TXD	SPI1_TXD	GPIO1_B0	19	20	GND
39	UART4_RXD	SPI1_RXD	GPIO1_A7	21	22	GPIO3_D4		124
41		SPI1_CLK	GPIO1_B1	23	24	GPIO1_B2	SPI1_CSN0	42
			GND	25	26	ADC_IN1
64		I2C2_SDA	GPIO2_A0	27	28	GPIO2_A1	I2C2_CLK	65
74		I2C6_SCL	GPIO2_B2	29	30	GND
73		I2C6_SDA	GPIO2_B1	31	32	GPIO3_D5		125
157			GPIO4_D5	33	34	GND
68			GPIO2_A4	35	36	GPIO2_A2		66
126			GPIO3_D6	37	38	GPIO2_A3		67
			GND	39	40	GPIO1_A2		34

Seeed has published a comparison of the RockPiN10 against the Jetson Nano and the Raspberry Pi 4 on its company blog, while pre-orders for the Rock Pi N10 are available in its web shop. Radxa itself has more information on the board on its official wiki.

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