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

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By androidpimp on May 1, 2017 Embedded Computers
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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 1080p@30fps
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
  • Orange Pi Win Plus Accessories 8
  • 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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