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    Orange Pi Win Plus Review: A KickAss Allwinner A64 Powered SBC

    By androidpimpMay 1, 2017Updated:January 20, 20211 Comment6 Mins Read
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    Orange Pi Win Plus Review

    Orange Pi Win Plus is a Development Board and a single board computer based on the Allwinner A64 SoC, a successor of the previous Orange Pi Win with few changes in the specification such as 2GB DDR3 RAM, External battery connector and 2Mb Spi Flash. This new SoC offers improved 64-bit quad-core predecessor with above decent performance for the Buck, along with a wide selection of interfaces for developers and hobbyists, such as LCD, HDMI, CSI, 40 Pins Header, Gigabit Ethernet LAN port, Four USB 2.0 Hosts, on-board WiFi with Bluetooth and more.

    If you are planning to build a low-cost NAS Device or workstation running Ubuntu or Debian OS, then this board mighty is a good and cheap solution for both DIY projects including product development. That said, for further information and price you are welcome to check Orange Pi official website and their Aliexpress store in the links posted below:

    Orange Pi Official AliExpess Store

    Orange Pi Win Plus Development Board | Front

    Orange Pi Win Plus Development Board | Rear

    Orange Pi Win Plus Review focus:

    1. Product Introduction
    2. Main Highlights & Specifications.
    3. Product Package
    4. Package Content
    5. A Closer Look at the Orange Pi Zero Plus2
    6. Optional Accessories
    7. Software Support
    8. Power, CPU information, Stress Test, Temperature, Memory
    9. Final Words
    10. Pros / Cons
    Orange Pi Win Plus Hardware specification
    CPU H3 Quad-core Cortex-A7 H.265/HEVC 4K
    GPU Mali400MP2 GPU @600MHz
    Supports OpenGL ES 2.0
    Memory (SDRAM) 1GB DDR3 (shared with GPU)
    On-board Storage TF card (Max. 64GB) / MMC card slot , up to 2T on 2.5 SATA disk
    8GB EMMC Flash
    Onboard Network 10/100/1000M Ethernet RJ45
    On-board WiFi Realtek RTL8189ETV, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
    Video-Input
    • A CSI input connector Camera:
    • Supports 8-bit YUV422 CMOS sensor interface
    • Supports CCIR656 protocol for NTSC and PAL
    • Supports SM pixel camera sensor
    • Supports video capture solution up to [email protected]
    Audio Input MIC
    Video Outputs
    • Supports HDMI output with HDCP
    • Supports HDMI CEC
    • Supports HDMI 30 function
    • Integrated CVBS
    • Supports simultaneous output of HDMI and CVBS
    Audio Output 3.5 mm Jack and HDMI
    Power Source DC input can supply power, but USB OTG input don’t supply power
    USB 2.0 Ports Four USB 2.0 HOST, one USB 2.0 OTG
    Buttons Power Button(SW4), Recovery Button(SW2), Uboot Button (SW3)
    Low-level peripherals 40 Pins Header, compatible with Raspberry Pi B+
    GPIO(1×3) pin UART, ground.
    LED Power led & Status led
    Other IR input
    Supported OS Android, Ubuntu, Debian, Armbian

    Package

    • Orange Pi Win Plus Package 1
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Package 3
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Package 2
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Package 4

    Orange Pi Win Plus Board | Unboxing

    Package Content

    • 1x One-page quick guide
    • 1x WiFi Antenna (Wire type)
    • 1x orange pi win plus board

    A Closer Look at the Orange Pi Zero Plus2

    • Orange Pi Win Plus 01
    • Orange Pi Win Plus 02
    • Orange Pi Win Plus 04
    • Orange Pi Win Plus 03
    • Orange Pi Win Plus 06
    • Orange Pi Win Plus 05
    • Orange Pi Win Plus 07

    Accessories

    Additional Accessories are not included with the orange pi win plus board. If you are planning on buying the transparent case, It highly recommends buying a decent heat-sink for the A64 Chip with dimensions of 14×14 mm (Max). In addition, to ensure decent cooling, It’s also very recommended buying a thermal pad for the pair of memory chips and apply them all with a sticky adhesive thermal paste.

    Orange Pi Win Plus | Optional Accessories

    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 1
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 2
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 3
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 4
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 5
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 6
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 7
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    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 9
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 11
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 10
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 12
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 13
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 14
    • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 15


    Case Design – Cons  & Pros

    Although the case design was overall good with access to all interfaces,  and the board package includes a simple wire type antenna that worked pretty well inside the closed case, The case height should have to be designed higher for few reasons. For start, I was missing a hole for mounting an external WiFi antenna and also the bottom cover was designed in such way there wasn’t any extra space for adding thermal pads on both memory chips.

    Orange Pi Zero Plus2 Inside Case

    Software Support

    In software support arena, the Pi Win Plus board currently supports the following main operating systems/ distributions:

    • Armbian
    • Android 6.0
    • Debian Jessie
    • Raspbian 
    • Ubuntu
    • DietPi

    Personal Impression

    After playing with a few of the images in the above list. The Android 6.0 image had few major problems. Audio through the HDMI port didn’t work, the keyboard also didn’t work and the image didn’t come pre-installed with google play store. The WiFi function didn’t work within the  Ubuntu image didn’t That said, Debian Jessie image did work pretty well, and WiFi and Ethernet performance were good.

    If you want to use this board as a “lightweight” Mini PC to surf the web, check emails and use LibreOffice suite than it will provide above decent performance, especially if you place heatsinks on all chips for optimal cooling. After talking to Xunlong company I was told that they will fix the Ubuntu and Android images, but couldn’t commit to a specific time frame when this issue will be resolved.

    Debian Jessie | Xfce Desktop

    Pi Zero Plus 2 debian jessie 1
    Pi Zero Plus 2 debian jessie 1
    Pi Zero Plus 2 debian jessie 2
    Pi Zero Plus 2 debian jessie 2
    Pi Zero Plus 2 debian jessie 3
    Pi Zero Plus 2 debian jessie 3

    Ubuntu | Xfce Desktop

    Pi Zero Plus 2 Ubuntu 1
    Pi Zero Plus 2 Ubuntu 1
    Pi Zero Plus 2 Ubuntu 3
    Pi Zero Plus 2 Ubuntu 3
    Pi Zero Plus 2 Ubuntu 2
    Pi Zero Plus 2 Ubuntu 2

    Power, CPU Information, Stress Test, Temperature, Memory


    Power

    Depending on what apps are running in the background, with two occupied USB ports occupied for wireless keyboard and mouse the mode power consumption in idle mode with very light usage (Idle mode) ranged approximately between 4-5W. In more moderate usage Consumption jumped between 6.0-6.4W.

    CPU Information

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    orangepi@Orangepi:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
    Processor       : AArch64 Processor rev 4 (aarch64)
    processor       : 0
    processor       : 1
    processor       : 2
    processor       : 3
    Features        : fp asimd aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32
    CPU implementer : 0x41
    CPU architecture: AArch64
    CPU variant     : 0x0
    CPU part        : 0xd03
    CPU revision    : 4
     
    Hardware        : sun50iw1p1

    CPU Benchmark (Stress Test)

    Test #1 – Consumption in Watts:

    • Number of threads Tested: 4, 20, 50
    • Before Test: 4.1-4.2W
    • During Test: 6-6.4W (Max)

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    $ sysbench --num-threads=4 --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=100000 run
    sysbench 0.4.12:  multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark
     
    Running the test with following options:
    Number of threads: 4
     
    Doing CPU performance benchmark
     
    Threads started!
    Done.
     
    Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 100000
     
     
    Test execution summary:
        total time:                          68.9532s
        total number of events:              10000
        total time taken by event execution: 275.7560
        per-request statistics:
             min:                                 27.44ms
             avg:                                 27.58ms
             max:                                 33.01ms
             approx.  95 percentile:              27.92ms
     
    Threads fairness:
        events (avg/stddev):           2500.0000/11.16
        execution time (avg/stddev):   68.9390/0.01

    Temperature

    In the plastic case provided by Xunlong temperature measured was 53C. This temperature was measured in low system usage with Ubuntu Desktop Xenial without running any high apps.

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    $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
    53

    Memory Usage

    Because Xfce is a very lightweight desktop environment, Memory and system resources consumption were relatively very low. Without loading any applications in the background. From a total of 2GB RAM, the OS utilized 308Mb I was left with 1.6G of free RAM.

    Memory Benchmark

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    $ sysbench --test=memory --memory-block-size=1M --memory-total-size=2G run
    sysbench 0.4.12:  multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark
     
    Running the test with following options:
    Number of threads: 1
     
    Doing memory operations speed test
    Memory block size: 1024K
     
    Memory transfer size: 2048M
     
    Memory operations type: write
    Memory scope type: global
    Threads started!
    Done.
     
    Operations performed: 2048 ( 2162.62 ops/sec)
     
    2048.00 MB transferred (2162.62 MB/sec)
     
     
    Test execution summary:
        total time:                          0.9470s
        total number of events:              2048
        total time taken by event execution: 0.9455
        per-request statistics:
             min:                                  0.46ms
             avg:                                  0.46ms
             max:                                  0.63ms
             approx.  95 percentile:               0.50ms
     
    Threads fairness:
        events (avg/stddev):           2048.0000/0.00

    Memory usage (Ubuntu Desktop Xenial):

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    orangepi@Orangepi:~$ free -h
                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:          1.9G       308M       1.6G        10M        18M       125M
    -/+ buffers/cache:       163M       1.8G
    Swap:           0B         0B         0B

    Final Words

    Although I didn’t test all images this board supports, I have mixed feelings regarding Android and Ubuntu images that had problems. If you are looking for a cheap board to run Debian and other distributions such as Armbian, then this board will do it well.

    Pros / Cons

    Pros

    • 2GB RAM
    • Fast Ethernet
    • Good performance

    Cons

    • No eMMC
    • Some images have issues.

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