hello everybody I am Nicoli so today I'm
back with a new SBC so this is it the
banana pie M5 so this comes with the
amlogic s905 X3 so this is the same as
the old Droid C4 and the Android hc4 so
I've gotten this board from armbian to
review it I am not paid by armbian I am
also not paid by cinevipe the maker of
this board so these days it is very hard
to obtain Raspberry Pi's so certainly
Raspberry Pi Force so this can be a good
competitor for it it is as powerful with
the CPU it also has got 4 gigabytes of
RAM and it also has got a 16 gigabyte
emmc something a Raspberry Pi doesn't
have it is missing CSI or DSi for camera
or extra display and it also doesn't
have got Wi-Fi on board or Bluetooth so
that is the same as the old Droid C4 but
it is a very potent board so armbian and
synonym are teaming up to do a giveaway
for this board so the banana pie M5 but
also a banana pie M2 Pro so the M2 Pro
also has got the same sock but only has
got two gigabytes of RAM but it does
have got Bluetooth and Wi-Fi so that's
the difference with this and the M2 Pro
for the giveaway the link is here in the
description so uh check it out if you
are not an army member yet you will have
to register and wait for 24 hours to get
a ticket but if you are already an
armbian member you can directly get a
ticket to win this board so enough
talking let's go to the specs here we go
so as I already told you this comes with
the amlogic s905 X3 this has got four
times cortex a55 at 1.9 gigahertz
default and Armin it is lightly
overclocked to 2.1 gigahertz so this has
got 12 nanometer lithography and one
megabyte cache the GPU is an arm Mali
g31 mp2 at 850 megahertz this has got 4
gigabytes lpddr4 Ram it has got micro LD
slots 16 gigabyte emmc four times USB 3
gigabit Ethernet HDMI 2.1 up to 4K 60fps
3.5 millimeter audio jack it has got
infrared it has got 40 pin gpio and it
is powered by USB type-c at only 5 volts
so no PD
so to download an image for the banana
Pi M5 we of course go to the armbian
download page there we have got banana
pie M5 slash M2 Plus
so the images for the M2 plus are the
same as for the banana pie M5
so here we've got armbian bull's eye
and Bullseye cinnamon and if we go down
then we see we've got a lot of desktops
so the cinnamon desktop gnome desktop
minimal desktop xfce desktop and then we
have got Jammy and again all the same
desktops so for this video I am going to
use both I xfce and it is important to
say that this board is supported so you
can get armbian support for this board
I am using this
for uh Wi-Fi so this is five gigahertz
Wi-Fi
so two boots I can just press this
button
and it will boot
into our Debian image
one small issue I found is when you
reboot with an SD card in it with an
image on and you also have got an emmc
with an image on it will always boot
from the emmc so with the codes boots it
will boot from SD with a hot reboot it
will boot from the emmc
so while this is booting I can tell you
that rbn from now only ships images with
frozen firmware so the kernel and new
boot packages will not be upgraded by
default so you can unfreeze them in
Armenian config or using apps Mark and
holds I've already set up my desktop the
way I like it so let's open Chrome Disk
Utility so here you see we've got our 16
gigabytes emmc there is an image
installed on it but we will later on
install this Bullseye image onto it as
you see I've got my SD card of 128
gigabyte here where Bullseye is
installed on
now first to show the pan Frost drivers
so the times are over that there were no
GPU drivers for single board computers
in Mainline so now we have got pan
frosts and here with Bullseye it works
very good so super tax cards runs great
on it even in 1080P full screen
the version of super talks card and
jamai isn't working well so that's why I
chose Bullseye to show but in Jammy
Firefox does perform a little bit better
with YouTube playback
so with Germany you can do 1080p with a
little bit dropped frames while with
Bullseye even 720p has got a lot of
dropped frames so the one big thing
missing as with most arm sbcs is a vpu
drivers
now to install this image onto our emmc
we type in sudo armbian Dash config and
there we go to system here you see the
D3 is what I talked about earlier if you
want to de-freeze your kernel and your
u-boot and to install we choose install
and the first option boot from emmc
system on emmc
select that a few times click OK and
then it will copy everything onto our
emmc after that it will ask to shut down
the system then just take out the SD
cards and Boot It from the emfc
I know some benchmarks so here are the
seven zip results so the banana Pi M5
with Jammy xfc 4 does
1923 mips single core so compared to the
Raspberry Pi 400 which is close to 1.8
gigahertz which does
1882 the Rockstar 0 also clocks to 1.8
gigahertz those 1634
and the station P1 with rk3399 does
1248 on the small course and
1843 on the big course so the single
core performance is already very good
and then the multi-core performance is
also very good so
7278 with Jeremy
I've also done it with bullseye bullseye
performs a little bit better and I've
also done it headless I don't see no
difference versus headless versus within
desktop so as you see it can compete
with Raspberry Pi 400s and even with the
rk3399 with all core 7-Zip decompression
and here the Nico D blender Benchmark
results
so the banana pie M5 does it in 16
minutes 37 seconds the Raspberry Pi 400
does it in 13 minutes and 15 seconds the
station P1 with rk3399 does this in 10
minutes and 10 seconds the cutoff frame
4 does it in 5 minutes and 3 seconds and
the rock 5 does it in 3 minutes and 19
seconds so compared to the newer
octa-core boards it isn't a match but
that is not expected of course
then the temperatures and power
consumption so even without the heatsink
it performs pretty well so it went up to
80 degrees Celsius but not over it and
it didn't throttle
so that is pretty good the idle
temperature is 52 degrees Celsius with
the display and no heatsink with a
heatsink it is 47 degrees Celsius and
maxed out it went up to 76 degrees
Celsius with the heatsink then headless
without the heatsink it was 37 degrees
Celsius and idle and headless maxed out
it went up to 70 degrees Celsius so it
makes a big difference if you use a
display or not then the power
consumption is 0.2 amps with no HDMI no
Wi-fi no USB
and maxed out it runs to
0.63 amps
and then as last transfer rates so the
onboard SD reader isn't very good so it
gets 23.9 megabytes reads and 16
megabytes right this is with my SanDisk
Extreme 128 gigabytes so the emmc wheat
is 174 megabytes a seconds and the emmc
right is 32.6 megabytes a second the USB
3 reads as
375.4 megabytes a seconds and USB 3
right as
342.4 megabytes a seconds
so the usb3 is performing Goods the emmc
is okay but as the reader is very slow
so that's it for today so the banana pie
M5 is a nice board it is great for light
server tasks I wouldn't recommend it for
desktop tasks it can be used for it but
it isn't very powerful and since it is
missing the vpu drivers it will not be
great for video playback
don't forget to enter for the giveaway
so the link here in the description I
don't have anything to do with this
giveaway so don't ask me anything about
it and I also cannot put your name above
on the list
so I hope you'll like this video thank
you all for watching see you all later
bye