Orange Pi 6 Plus 16Gb LPDDR5

Orange Pi 6 Plus — 12-Core ARM SBC with 16GB LPDDR5 & 45 TOPS AI

The Orange Pi 6 Plus is a serious step up from the typical single-board computer. Powered by the CIX P1 (CD8180/CD8160) SoC, it features a 12-core 64-bit ARM DynamIQ CPU — four Cortex-A720 cores up to 2.6GHz, four more Cortex-A720 cores up to 2.4GHz, and four Cortex-A520 efficiency cores at 1.8GHz, all sharing a 12MB L3 cache. (Medium) This isn't a hobbyist board — it's a compact workstation.

The 16GB variant comes loaded with 128-bit LPDDR5 memory and dual M.2 KEY-M 2280 slots for NVMe SSDs, plus SPI Flash and a TF card slot (Orange Pi) for flexible, high-speed storage. With dual PCIe Gen4 NVMe slots, storage throughput exceeds 7 GB/s reads and writes per drive (Medium) — perfect for server and data-heavy workloads.

On the AI side, the integrated NPU hits 30 TOPS, with total AI performance reaching 45 TOPS when combining CPU, GPU, and NPU — capable of running edge AI workloads like chatbots and object detection locally without extra hardware. (Medium)

The Arm Immortalis G720 MC10 GPU supports Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0, and hardware ray tracing, with 8K@60fps video decoding and 8K@30fps encoding across AV1, H.265, H.264, and VP9. (Medium)

Connectivity is where this board really shines: dual 5 Gigabit Ethernet ports, two M.2 2280 slots for NVMe, an M.2 2230 slot for a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module, USB 3.0, USB 2.0, HDMI, and a 40-pin GPIO header. (Liliputing) Display outputs include HDMI, DisplayPort, Type-C DP, and eDP — capable of 4K 120Hz via DP. (Orange Pi)

Supported operating systems include Debian, Ubuntu, Android, Windows, and ROS2. (Amazon)

Ideal for:

Edge AI development and inference

Home servers and NAS builds

Industrial automation and smart security

High-performance emulation and gaming

Robotics (ROS2 ready)

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