Embedded electronics specialist Radxa has introduced a brand new entry in its ROCK 5 household of single-board computer systems, and this time it is aiming for many who discover mini-ITX simply too massive of a footprint with the extra compact ROCK 5T.
“ROCK 5T [has] all of the options and interfaces of a mini-ITX board, now in a smaller dimension with none compromise,” Radxa claims of its newest creation, which is impressed by its earlier and noticeably bigger ROCK 5 ITX+ single-board laptop. “[It is] a sublime single-board laptop primarily based on the [Rockchip] RK3588 chipset. Its 110×82mm [around 4.33×3.23″] dimension encompasses nearly all [the] options of the RK3588, providing distinctive flexibility and scalability. ROCK 5T gives a stable basis for geeks, SBC lovers, IoT [Internet of Things] hobbyists, and college students and lecturers in academia to deliver their concepts to life.”
Honey, I shrunk the ROCK 5: meet the brand new, extra compact ROCK 5T single-board laptop. (📷: Radxa)
Based mostly on the corporate’s current ROCK 5 ITX+ SBC, the ROCK 5T — dropped at our consideration by CNX Software program — is powered by the identical Rockchip RK3588 system-on-chip, or the industrial-grade RJ3588J on the purchaser’s selection. This options 4 Arm Cortex-A76 cores working at as much as 2.4GHz (2.2GHz in -J variant) and 4 lower-power Cortex-A55 cores working at as much as 1.8GHz, an Arm Mali G610-MC4 graphics processor, a imaginative and prescient processor with 8k60 H.265/VP9/AVS2/AV1 and 8k30 H.264 decode and 8k30 H.264/H.265 encode, and an on-board neural community coprocessor delivering a claimed six tera-operations per second (TOPS) of minimum-precision compute for on-device machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) workloads.
Alongside a selection of 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 24GB, or 32GB of LPDDR5 reminiscence, Radxa’s board contains two M.2 M-key slots with two lanes of PCI Categorical Gen. 3 connectivity for Non-Risky Reminiscence Categorical (NVMe) storage or {hardware} accelerators, two 2.5-gigabit-Ethernet ports, Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth connectivity, an M.2 B-key connector for an elective mobile modem with SIM card slot, and as much as 4 simultaneous show outputs chosen from an 8k60 HDMI output, a 4k60 HDMI output, a 4k60 DisplayPort output over USB Sort-C Alternate Mode, and a 1080p60 four-lane MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI) connector. There’s an HDMI enter. too, together with two four-lane MIPI Digicam Serial Interface (CSI) connectors, two USB 3.1 Gen. 1, and two USB 2.0 ports, plus a Raspberry Pi-style 40-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header.
The board brings throughout most of the options of its bigger predecessor, however not all. (📷: Radxa)
Not all the things from the bigger ROCK 5 ITX+ has made the bounce to the compact ROCK 5T, although: the M.2 E-key socket has been dropped in favor of an built-in Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module, there isn’t any optical S/PDIF audio output, no on-board battery holder for the real-time clock, no assist for an ATX-standard energy provide, and — within the greatest loss, notably for these contemplating utilizing the board on the coronary heart of a low energy community connected storage (NAS) construct — no SATA ports.
Extra info on the ROCK 5T is offered on the Radxa web site; worldwide orders are being dealt with by Arace, which on the time of writing listed solely the commercial-grade non-J variants in two reminiscence capacities: 16GB at $139.50 and 32GB at $219.50.
