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OrangePi 4 Pro review - the high-performance Raspberry Pi alternative for 2025

Tam Hanna's Crazy Electronics Lab

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With the OrangePi 4 Pro, Shenzhen Xunlong returns to the Allwinner SoC and the well-known Raspberry Pi form factor. In this highly affordable single board computer, a full-size HDMI port and eight compute cores combine to create a comfortable to use, yet high performance SBC.

Order of Battle
00:41 - Unboxing, hardware review
03:01 - Size and weight vs Raspberry Pi
04:35 - OS selection, SSH trouble
08:01 - SysBench prep
09:24 - SysBench CPU test
11:46 - Thermal stress testing
14:08 - Linux GPIO
16:05 - Price comparison

Purchase link for OrangePi 4 Pro
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c39...

Purchase link for OrangePi 6 Plus
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c3Y...

15 Comments

@AStarStarship 7 months ago (edited)

The board looks like a hidden gem. I bet the bad reviews are the HDMI port taking too long to respond.

@ingexcomp 8 months ago

Orange Pi 4 Pro CPU Speed: 9831 events per second
Raspberry Pi 400 CPU Speed: 7017 events per second

@funnytoys1430 8 months ago

How are the processor and graphics drivers?
Some bloggers say there aren't the correct drivers for Allwiner, which is why videos are lagging.

@markthompson6334 1 month ago

Great information. I make a product out of the raspberry pie five that I’m about to release a pattern pending status and start advertising. I think this board is going to replace the 55 because I need sound and I need sound out and I need the NPU thanks for the information. Great video.

@nikgav1 9 months ago

Hey, great video. It is quite helpful for somebody, who wants to buy it. Does i2c and spi work on Debian image?

@santanu-sh 7 months ago

Hi, thanks for the video! Since this runs standard Debian, do regular Linux packages like Tailscale, Syncthing, and Nginx install and work normally? Or are there any compatibility issues? :hand-pink-waving:

@kenrock2 8 months ago

What is its performance like when streaming 1080p YouTube videos or 4K videos?

@rubenscostatkd 10 months ago

Thanks, nice video. I bought and ill try do your tutorial

@NicoDeclerckBelgium 8 months ago

Got one underway, the bad part here is lack of decent OS support. The OS is already outdated, doesn't come in a non-GUI version and - like all SBC's based on this type if SoC - comes with a kernel that is considered ancient, so security-wise... Let's not think about that.
If anything, having something that does not have any form of Armbian support is usually not a good sign.

@gizellacseh1786 10 months ago

Congratulations

@KeithLee2012 10 months ago

Whats the power consumption when idle and during load? Thanks

@hkexplore2678 10 months ago

Likely that those Linux distro(s) have not yet been stable enough for now.

@hkexplore2678 9 months ago

Those positions of emmcs and nvmes seem overnapped. Meaning that they can't be used together. Seem bad.

@IonCubekhanz 9 months ago

To be honest sunxi is very bad for media transcoding. Secondly no Ubuntu Noble release so you are stuck with old applications. Youtube performance suffers a lot