**The Orange Pi Zero 2: A Surprisingly Powerful Single Board Computer**

This little chip is capable of producing great results, as demonstrated by the author's test with a 1080p 60fps video at a lower bitrate. The video played smoothly and without any issues, showcasing the device's ability to handle high-quality video playback.

As the author continued testing, they discovered that this tiny board was capable of more than just basic video playback. They moved on to 4k 60fps 78 megabits per second, which is an impressive feat for such a small device. With an Ethernet connection, the author was able to load and play the demanding 4k content without any noticeable issues.

In addition to its impressive processing capabilities, the Orange Pi Zero 2 also boasts some notable features when it comes to gaming. The author tested their personal experience with native Android gaming, but unfortunately found that many games didn't launch well on the device. However, Real Racing 3 was one game that worked seamlessly, providing decent performance that rivaled more powerful devices like the S905X3 or X4.

When it came to emulation, the author was excited to test out some of their favorite classic consoles and games on the Orange Pi Zero 2. Starting with PlayStation One using RetroArch's PCSX-Remake core, they were pleasantly surprised by the device's ability to run PS1 games at full speed without any significant issues. The author also tested N64 emulation, which was surprisingly good, although some games did experience occasional crashes.

For their PSP emulations, the author used the standalone version of PPSSPP and started with a relatively easy game like Guilty Gear 2D Game 1x resolution OpenGL back in no frame skip no hacks. While they experienced some dips in performance, the game overall ran smoothly at full speed without any issues. However, when trying to emulate harder-to-run games like Tekken 6 or Soul Calibur: Destiny, the device struggled to maintain a stable framerate, even with various hacks and tweaks.

Despite these limitations, the author was still impressed by the Orange Pi Zero 2's capabilities for emulation, particularly in terms of running lower-end games at full speed. While it may not be able to handle more demanding titles like Tekken 6 or Soul Calibur: Destiny, the device can still provide a great experience with easier-to-run games.

**Pricing and Availability**

As an 18 single board computer, the Orange Pi Zero 2 is priced relatively affordably at around $28-$30. This makes it an attractive option for those looking to get into tinkering with single-board computers without breaking the bank.

While shipping costs may be slightly higher in the US, the author notes that this minor expense is well worth it considering the device's capabilities and performance.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Orange Pi Zero 2 has proven itself to be a surprisingly powerful single board computer, capable of producing great results in both video playback and emulation. While there may be some limitations to its capabilities, particularly when it comes to more demanding games or titles, this little device is still an excellent option for those looking to tinker with Android, Debian, or Ubuntu.

As the author plans to create a follow-up video testing these operating systems on the Orange Pi Zero 2, fans of single-board computers can look forward to learning more about the possibilities and limitations of this tiny but mighty device.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys cta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a pretty interesting little single board computer known as the orange pi zero 2. now this is a very inexpensive little single board computer going anywhere from 15 to 19 depending on the ram version you get i would definitely recommend getting the more expensive one with one gig of ram it's just gonna perform much better across board with all the operating systems that are available now even though the one gigabyte model retails for eighteen dollars and eighty cents you still gotta pay shipping anywhere from eight to twelve dollars so that does drive the price up personally i spent twenty eight dollars for this unit here and it took a month to ship to me i'm in the us if you're in another part of the world it might get to you a little quicker but i think one of the main things this has going for it is the size as you can see i mean this is a super tiny single board computer and it's actually packing some decent specs for the form factor here now like i mentioned they offer a couple different ram variants of this 512 megabytes of ram up to one gig i would definitely recommend picking up the one gig model it will perform better across the board now if we take a close look at the board we only have a single usb 2.0 port but they do offer another little hat for this that'll add a 3.5 millimeter audio jack and two more usb 2.0 ports and just to give you an idea of the size of this thing on the right hand side we have a raspberry pi 4 8 gigabyte model on the left hand side the orange pi zero two this thing's half the size of the raspberry pi four but as you can see we don't have that built-in i o you will have to add that extra board if you want more usb ports and an audio jack this does have wi-fi and bluetooth built in right out of the box and it does come with an antenna we got 26 gpio pins on one side and another 13 pin header on the other and this was specifically designed for that usb add-on board overall i am a big fan of the form factor here it does not support emmc storage you do have to run your operating system from a micro sd card but i have tested up to a 512 gigabyte card and it does work right out of the box as for i o ports here we have a single usb 2.0 port micro hdmi just like the raspberry pi 4 usb type c only used for power in they recommend 5 volts 2 amps and gigabit ethernet taking a look at the specs of the orange pi zero 2 for the cpu we have the all winner h616 this is a quad core cortex a53 cpu at 1.5 gigahertz the gpu is the mali g31 you can get this with 512 megabytes of ram or one gigabyte of ram it uses ddr3 storage is handled by a micro sd card we have 802.11 ac wi-fi built-in that gigabit ethernet and bluetooth 5.0 and as for supported operating systems over on their website you can pick up the android image ubuntu image debian and they also have the linux source code and android source code listed in case you want to build your own operating system so yeah at 18 i do think this has some pretty decent specs now i wanted to keep this thing as cool as possible so we could get the maximum performance out of it so i just added a cheap fan and heatsink that i picked up on amazon for the raspberry pi runs on 5 volts plugs right into the gpio and it should keep this board nice and cool indefinitely so when it comes to low powered single board computers like this the first thing i always like to test is android that kind of gives me a little bit of a gauge on how well this thing performs like i mentioned there are other operating systems available and if you guys are interested in seeing any of those debian or ubuntu just let me know in the comments below but for this one we're gonna go with their android 10 build all right so here we are this is the android 10 version they have available on their website unfortunately this does not have google play built in so we don't have google services or anything like that and uh a lot of the stuff that i side loaded just won't launch like youtube here you need google play services for it to work correctly and just crashing in general has kind of been an issue with uh different apps and stuff redream i can't even get it to launch just goes to a black screen for a second minecraft since i don't have google play services built in they can't verify that i own the app so i couldn't run this i'm sure there's ways around that with this game here but i was able to get a few other games up and running one other thing was geekbench 5 would not run and a couple other benchmark apps that i wanted to run on this unit just crashed halfway through so yeah i mean it definitely needs some work here with this operating system i'm actually not a big fan of this interface here if we head over to settings this is more of an android tv build for this unit i was kind of hoping it was more of the phone version but unfortunately i think they went with the android tv version because even if we go into device preferences here and let's just say settings i mean we don't have any other options here this is more of the android tv look as you can see now what i did was side load a few apps that i couldn't get from different app stores i do have aptoide installed and if you did want to install some applications from there you can but like i said there's a lot of stuff that just isn't going to run properly because we don't have google services built in but the stuff that i did get to run actually works really well on this little board especially given the fact that this is an 18 single board computer and to tell you the truth i was actually pretty impressed here so up until right here none of this stuff comes preloaded all of this is side loaded either from my phone other apks or the aptoide app store basically what you're going to get is your file manager gallery you'll get miracast music down here you'll have your settings apps and storage and really that's about it so you do have to do some work to get stuff installed but the stuff that is running on this little board here works pretty decently first thing i wanted to get into was the only benchmark that i could get running which was 3dmark and by the way since this does have bluetooth built in i was able to connect my xbox controller and i can control everything with the xbox controller but i also have a keyboard and mouse plugged in at the time of making this right here so my device my results we can't use the vulcan back-end on this board this build of android just doesn't have it built in but opengl es 3.0 with slingshot we scored a total of 330. definitely low when you're comparing this with android phones even cheaper android phones but for the price of this board here i don't think it's that bad i've actually tested more expensive boards that uh scored lower than this moving over to some video streaming since we can't do youtube i figured i'd go ahead and do plex let's start out with a lower bitrate video this is 1080p 68.4 megabits per second we are set at maximum remote streaming here and it does load up pretty quickly and plays just fine so this is a lower bitrate 1080p 60fps video and it works great now they're claiming that this little chip is capable of 4k we'll get back into plex and test something a little more demanding 4k 60fps 78 megabits per second now with this one here i actually plugged in ethernet i'm not over wi-fi i wanted to get the best connection as i could does take a little while to load but once it loads up it actually plays pretty smooth this was actually really surprising seeing that we could do 4k on this little board next up a little bit of native android gaming now i personally didn't have really good luck with getting a lot of games to launch but luckily real racing 3 is just one of those games that basically works on everything and performance here is pretty decent this is definitely on par with the s905 x3 or the x4 next on the list we have some emulation now when it comes to the lower end stuff like nes snes game boy game boy advance pc engine neo geo fba i have no doubt that they're gonna run at full speed so i wanted to test some higher end stuff first up we have playstation one i'm using retro arch with the pcsx rearm core and as you can see it's running great here and going into this i actually expected it to do ps1 pretty well because it doesn't take much to run playstation 1 games but what i wasn't expecting was decent n64 emulation now unfortunately my favorite standalone apple pin 64 plus fz just kept crashing on me so i had to resort to move in plus ae but overall i mean n64 on this little unit is pretty decent i'm sure we've run into some games that aren't going to run at full speed but overall i'm really surprised to see this kind of performance out of this little board next up psp using the standalone version of ppsspp starting off light here with guilty gear 2d game 1x resolution opengl back in no frame skip no hacks it's running at full speed every once in a while do see it dip down but i did run into some issues when i tried to play some harder to run games like tekken 6. so here we are no hacks 1x resolution no frame skip and it's definitely unplayable so i wanted to see how it acted with frame skip on at least set to one this should bring us to 30 fps because this game runs at 60 and it's still pretty unplayable like this and this isn't the hardest to run psp game i consider this a mid-range game so we're going to go to a pretty easy one to emulate soul calibur destiny so i went into this one with no frame skip on 1x resolution and all the hacks that i can run and i'm still getting really bad performance so i went through turn frame skip to one just to see what would happen here and again with these harder to run games this little board just isn't gonna cut it now i'm a hundred percent sure that there are psp games that this little board's going to run just fine but it's not going to do the harder to run games still with all things considered this is an 18 single board computer i think it's doing a great job with emulation you saw playstation 1 n64 ran good there are some psp games that are going to run fine on this board and anything underneath that will run at full speed like i said you want to get into some snes gameboy advance pc engine neo geo you're going to have a great time with it on the orange pi zero two so far with the build of android that have tested on the orange pi zero 2 this is definitely worth 18 you will have to put a little bit of work into it getting some apps installed and things like that it's definitely not a super powerful single board computer but for the price here i think it's a decent little specked out unit now keep in mind if you're in the us you're going to pay a little bit of shipping for this so the price on this board will come out to around 28 to 30 dollars and even at that 30 price point if you're looking for an inexpensive single board computer to tinker around with i think this would be an awesome little option but that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching if there's anything else you want to see running on this board either an android debian or ubuntu just let me know in the comments below i'd actually like to make a debian and ubuntu video on this and i'm probably gonna do it in the next couple days so keep an eye out but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on guys cta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a pretty interesting little single board computer known as the orange pi zero 2. now this is a very inexpensive little single board computer going anywhere from 15 to 19 depending on the ram version you get i would definitely recommend getting the more expensive one with one gig of ram it's just gonna perform much better across board with all the operating systems that are available now even though the one gigabyte model retails for eighteen dollars and eighty cents you still gotta pay shipping anywhere from eight to twelve dollars so that does drive the price up personally i spent twenty eight dollars for this unit here and it took a month to ship to me i'm in the us if you're in another part of the world it might get to you a little quicker but i think one of the main things this has going for it is the size as you can see i mean this is a super tiny single board computer and it's actually packing some decent specs for the form factor here now like i mentioned they offer a couple different ram variants of this 512 megabytes of ram up to one gig i would definitely recommend picking up the one gig model it will perform better across the board now if we take a close look at the board we only have a single usb 2.0 port but they do offer another little hat for this that'll add a 3.5 millimeter audio jack and two more usb 2.0 ports and just to give you an idea of the size of this thing on the right hand side we have a raspberry pi 4 8 gigabyte model on the left hand side the orange pi zero two this thing's half the size of the raspberry pi four but as you can see we don't have that built-in i o you will have to add that extra board if you want more usb ports and an audio jack this does have wi-fi and bluetooth built in right out of the box and it does come with an antenna we got 26 gpio pins on one side and another 13 pin header on the other and this was specifically designed for that usb add-on board overall i am a big fan of the form factor here it does not support emmc storage you do have to run your operating system from a micro sd card but i have tested up to a 512 gigabyte card and it does work right out of the box as for i o ports here we have a single usb 2.0 port micro hdmi just like the raspberry pi 4 usb type c only used for power in they recommend 5 volts 2 amps and gigabit ethernet taking a look at the specs of the orange pi zero 2 for the cpu we have the all winner h616 this is a quad core cortex a53 cpu at 1.5 gigahertz the gpu is the mali g31 you can get this with 512 megabytes of ram or one gigabyte of ram it uses ddr3 storage is handled by a micro sd card we have 802.11 ac wi-fi built-in that gigabit ethernet and bluetooth 5.0 and as for supported operating systems over on their website you can pick up the android image ubuntu image debian and they also have the linux source code and android source code listed in case you want to build your own operating system so yeah at 18 i do think this has some pretty decent specs now i wanted to keep this thing as cool as possible so we could get the maximum performance out of it so i just added a cheap fan and heatsink that i picked up on amazon for the raspberry pi runs on 5 volts plugs right into the gpio and it should keep this board nice and cool indefinitely so when it comes to low powered single board computers like this the first thing i always like to test is android that kind of gives me a little bit of a gauge on how well this thing performs like i mentioned there are other operating systems available and if you guys are interested in seeing any of those debian or ubuntu just let me know in the comments below but for this one we're gonna go with their android 10 build all right so here we are this is the android 10 version they have available on their website unfortunately this does not have google play built in so we don't have google services or anything like that and uh a lot of the stuff that i side loaded just won't launch like youtube here you need google play services for it to work correctly and just crashing in general has kind of been an issue with uh different apps and stuff redream i can't even get it to launch just goes to a black screen for a second minecraft since i don't have google play services built in they can't verify that i own the app so i couldn't run this i'm sure there's ways around that with this game here but i was able to get a few other games up and running one other thing was geekbench 5 would not run and a couple other benchmark apps that i wanted to run on this unit just crashed halfway through so yeah i mean it definitely needs some work here with this operating system i'm actually not a big fan of this interface here if we head over to settings this is more of an android tv build for this unit i was kind of hoping it was more of the phone version but unfortunately i think they went with the android tv version because even if we go into device preferences here and let's just say settings i mean we don't have any other options here this is more of the android tv look as you can see now what i did was side load a few apps that i couldn't get from different app stores i do have aptoide installed and if you did want to install some applications from there you can but like i said there's a lot of stuff that just isn't going to run properly because we don't have google services built in but the stuff that i did get to run actually works really well on this little board especially given the fact that this is an 18 single board computer and to tell you the truth i was actually pretty impressed here so up until right here none of this stuff comes preloaded all of this is side loaded either from my phone other apks or the aptoide app store basically what you're going to get is your file manager gallery you'll get miracast music down here you'll have your settings apps and storage and really that's about it so you do have to do some work to get stuff installed but the stuff that is running on this little board here works pretty decently first thing i wanted to get into was the only benchmark that i could get running which was 3dmark and by the way since this does have bluetooth built in i was able to connect my xbox controller and i can control everything with the xbox controller but i also have a keyboard and mouse plugged in at the time of making this right here so my device my results we can't use the vulcan back-end on this board this build of android just doesn't have it built in but opengl es 3.0 with slingshot we scored a total of 330. definitely low when you're comparing this with android phones even cheaper android phones but for the price of this board here i don't think it's that bad i've actually tested more expensive boards that uh scored lower than this moving over to some video streaming since we can't do youtube i figured i'd go ahead and do plex let's start out with a lower bitrate video this is 1080p 68.4 megabits per second we are set at maximum remote streaming here and it does load up pretty quickly and plays just fine so this is a lower bitrate 1080p 60fps video and it works great now they're claiming that this little chip is capable of 4k we'll get back into plex and test something a little more demanding 4k 60fps 78 megabits per second now with this one here i actually plugged in ethernet i'm not over wi-fi i wanted to get the best connection as i could does take a little while to load but once it loads up it actually plays pretty smooth this was actually really surprising seeing that we could do 4k on this little board next up a little bit of native android gaming now i personally didn't have really good luck with getting a lot of games to launch but luckily real racing 3 is just one of those games that basically works on everything and performance here is pretty decent this is definitely on par with the s905 x3 or the x4 next on the list we have some emulation now when it comes to the lower end stuff like nes snes game boy game boy advance pc engine neo geo fba i have no doubt that they're gonna run at full speed so i wanted to test some higher end stuff first up we have playstation one i'm using retro arch with the pcsx rearm core and as you can see it's running great here and going into this i actually expected it to do ps1 pretty well because it doesn't take much to run playstation 1 games but what i wasn't expecting was decent n64 emulation now unfortunately my favorite standalone apple pin 64 plus fz just kept crashing on me so i had to resort to move in plus ae but overall i mean n64 on this little unit is pretty decent i'm sure we've run into some games that aren't going to run at full speed but overall i'm really surprised to see this kind of performance out of this little board next up psp using the standalone version of ppsspp starting off light here with guilty gear 2d game 1x resolution opengl back in no frame skip no hacks it's running at full speed every once in a while do see it dip down but i did run into some issues when i tried to play some harder to run games like tekken 6. so here we are no hacks 1x resolution no frame skip and it's definitely unplayable so i wanted to see how it acted with frame skip on at least set to one this should bring us to 30 fps because this game runs at 60 and it's still pretty unplayable like this and this isn't the hardest to run psp game i consider this a mid-range game so we're going to go to a pretty easy one to emulate soul calibur destiny so i went into this one with no frame skip on 1x resolution and all the hacks that i can run and i'm still getting really bad performance so i went through turn frame skip to one just to see what would happen here and again with these harder to run games this little board just isn't gonna cut it now i'm a hundred percent sure that there are psp games that this little board's going to run just fine but it's not going to do the harder to run games still with all things considered this is an 18 single board computer i think it's doing a great job with emulation you saw playstation 1 n64 ran good there are some psp games that are going to run fine on this board and anything underneath that will run at full speed like i said you want to get into some snes gameboy advance pc engine neo geo you're going to have a great time with it on the orange pi zero two so far with the build of android that have tested on the orange pi zero 2 this is definitely worth 18 you will have to put a little bit of work into it getting some apps installed and things like that it's definitely not a super powerful single board computer but for the price here i think it's a decent little specked out unit now keep in mind if you're in the us you're going to pay a little bit of shipping for this so the price on this board will come out to around 28 to 30 dollars and even at that 30 price point if you're looking for an inexpensive single board computer to tinker around with i think this would be an awesome little option but that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching if there's anything else you want to see running on this board either an android debian or ubuntu just let me know in the comments below i'd actually like to make a debian and ubuntu video on this and i'm probably gonna do it in the next couple days so keep an eye out but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching you\n"