Banana Pi and ArmSoM have introduced a “CM5” system-on-module, dubbed both the ArmSom-CM5 or BPI-CM5 Professional relying on who you are asking — designed as a Rockchip RK3576-powered drop-in substitute for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.
“The ArmSoM-CM5 is a computing module powered by the Rockchip RK3576 second-generation 8nm high-performance AIOT [Artificial Intelligence of Things] platform,” ArmSoM writes of its creation. “It integrates a quad-core [Arm] Cortex-A72 @ 2.2GHz and a quad-core Cortex-A53 @ 1.8GHz, together with a devoted NEON co-processor, a 6 TOPS [Tera-Operations Per Second] NPU [Neural Processing Unit], and helps as much as 16GB of huge reminiscence. It helps 4k video encoding and decoding, includes a wealthy set of interfaces, and helps varied working programs.”
ArmSoM and Banana Pi are launching a drop-in substitute for the Raspberry Pi CM4, known as — shockingly — the CM5. (📷: ArmSoM)
Delivered to our consideration by CNX Software program, the Rockchip RK3576-based system-on-module consists of the aforementioned processor cores and neural coprocessor, the latter focusing on on-device machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) workloads, together with an Arm Mali G52-MC3 graphics processor and a video codec supporting H.264/H.265/MJPEG encoding and H.265/H.265/VP9/AVI1/AVS2 decoding at as much as 8k30 or 4k120.
The module — which is the fourth “CM5” we have lined on the location, after Radxa’s ROCK5 CM5, Orange Pi’s CM5, and arturo182’s “Unofficial CM5” conversion of a full-sized Raspberry Pi 5 — is designed as a pin-compatible drop-in substitute for Raspberry Pi’s Compute Module 4, of specific curiosity for these awaiting an official Compute Module 5. There is a selection of 8GB or 16GB of LPDDR5 reminiscence, 32GB, 64GB, or 128GB eMMC storage, and an on-board Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 radio module.
The board is predicated on a Rockchip RK3576, with eight CPU cores, a GPU, ISP, {hardware} video codecs, and a 6 TOPS NPU. (📷: ArmSoM)
For peripherals, the module gives HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort output supporting as much as 4k120 decision, a single gigabit Ethernet GMAC, one USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0 ports, two PCI Specific Gen. 2 lanes, SATA, one four-lane and one two-lane MIPI Digital camera Serial Interface (CSI), and one four-lane Show Serial Interface (DSI), and assist for a Raspberry Pi-format 40-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header — although precisely what’s damaged out from the SOM’s core function set will rely upon the provider board into which it is put in. For software program, there’s assist for Debian and Ubuntu Linux plus an unspecified Android model — however not Raspberry Pi OS.
Extra data on the boards is offered on the ArmSoM and Banana Pi web sites; pricing has been confirmed by ArmSoM at $103 for the module solely with 8GB LPDDR5 RAM and 64GB eMMC storage, with a equipment together with a CM5-IO provider priced at $138.