Radxa · Homelab

Radxa ROCK 5C

An 8 GB RK3588S board, the best supported of the RK3588 family, rated Platinum by Armbian.

$159 list price

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Headline specifications

SoC
Rockchip RK3588S
Memory
8 GB, soldered
Architecture
aarch64
Form factor
Sbc

Details

About this system

What the record says about the Radxa ROCK 5C, in its own words.

The ROCK 5C is an RK3588S board with 8 GB of memory: the same class of chip as the larger ROCK 5 boards in the cheaper single board layout.

The reason to pick this one out of a crowded RK3588 field is support. Armbian rates it Platinum, their top tier, which means somebody is maintaining a current kernel and userland for it rather than leaving you on a vendor image built two years ago and never touched again. On ARM boards that is the difference between a machine you can keep patched and one you cannot.

OpenFactory does not build images for this board today, so it runs Armbian's Debian and Ubuntu builds rather than one you built here. Its memory is soldered, which is why an x86 board with a memory socket is better value at the moment.

Reference

Specifications

These values come from the published record for this system. Anything the source did not report is shown as not reported rather than filled in.

Vendor
Radxa
Category
Homelab
Architecture
aarch64
Form factor
Sbc
Starting price
Priced per build
Fulfillment
Reseller
SoC
Rockchip RK3588S
Memory
8 GB, soldered
Software Support
Armbian Platinum tier

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