**Performance Comparison of RK3566 and S905X3 Chips**

When it comes to streaming 1080p on this board, as you can see, it works very well now. Let's go ahead and move over to some benchmarks then we'll test some native Android gaming and finally emulation.

**Benchmark Scores**

In Geekbench 5, these scores are looking pretty low and I kind of expected this. I have tested the same chip in other Android boxes in the past, single-core performance of 132 and multi-core performance of 460. I also tried to run Antutu and unfortunately, we cannot get the GPU test to run even with the light version of Antutu. Overall score is 96,336. Keep in mind that this will increase down the road once we can get those GPU benchmarks to factor in.

**Native Android Gaming Performance**

Moving over to some native Android gaming, first up, we have Minecraft - eight chunks fancy graphics off. It's not the best that I've seen but it's definitely not the worst. I don't think we're even getting a steady 30 out of it and I could still go down to six chunks but I left it at eight to see what it would do. Stardew Valley is very simple game, it's running at full speed. I mean you're gonna get great performance out of these easier to run games when it comes to 3D at least right now in this version of Android, I personally haven't got amazing performance out of this little thing yet but the 2D stuff works just fine.

**Real Racing 3 and Android Performance**

The final Android game I wanted to test was Real Racing 3. This is one I always like to test on lower end ARM chips because it's a very well optimized game. It's been out for a while, and the way this is performing right now is basically the same as an S905 chip would perform. Now it's time to check out a little bit of emulation.

**Emulation Performance**

First up we have N64. I actually opted to use RetroArch and the Mupen 64 Plus core. I was having issues with the scope storage and the other apps because we're running Android 11 here but when it comes to N64 performance, I'd say that this is on par with the Amlogic S905X2 and X3. Next up we have Dreamcast and initially I wanted to use Redream but I kept getting crashes as soon as I started the game up so I had to go back to RetroArch with the FlyCast core.

**PSP Emulation Performance**

Finally, PSP using the standalone version of PPSSPP 1x resolution no hacks. I am using the Vulcan renderer. In easier games, actually perform really well but even with this one here, Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny if I go up to 2x performance really takes a hit - I'm talking we're down to around 48 FPS at 2x with this game but at 1x it can run continuously at 60. So overall when it comes to Android performance right now, I'd say that these chips are on par with the S905X3. I mean taking a look at PSP performance Dreamcast N64 and even native Android gaming - I mean they're right there neck and neck.

**Conclusion**

When it comes to Android performance right now, I'd say that these chips are not a powerhouse but you know I've yet to get a good build of Linux that was really stable. And as soon as somebody releases a decent build which I'm sure Pine64 will in the next few months or maybe even the next few weeks, I will make a video showing off Linux performance with this chip because that's really what I'm interested in right now.

**Availability and Comparison to S905**

We already have a great option for Android and it's been on the market for a little while. I've mentioned it the Amlogic S905 and we're getting basically the same exact performance only that S905 is readily available in super cheap Android TV boxes that you can pick up for as little as $15 on eBay and Amazon.

**Future Developments**

But I will keep an eye out for any new Linux releases for this board, and I will make a video so definitely stay tuned to the channel if you're interested in seeing that. I will leave links in the description to Pine64's website definitely check out the IO specs on this board because it's got you covered in all aspects.

**Model B Version**

If there's anything else you want to see running on the RK3566 or if you have any questions, let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at an upcoming single board computer from pine 64 known as the quartz 64 model a and one of the big reasons i wanted to pick this up and take a look at it is because it's powered by the new rockchip rk 3566 at two gigahertz and this one here has eight gigabytes of lp ddr4 ram right out of the box now these are available for purchase on pine64's website but uh in the description they state you really shouldn't purchase it unless you're a developer because right now there's not a lot of software available for it but i've been doing a lot of testing with their android builds that they've been posting on their wiki and it's actually performing really really well so we can take a look at it today and keep in mind we're only going to be running android for this video but i did want to give you a first look at the quartz 64 from pine 64. so as you can see it's a much larger board than the raspberry pi 4 but if you take a look at their spec sheet they have packed a lot of i o into this little thing i was really impressed reading through the list so just taking a look up front here we have our 3.5 millimeter audio jack a reset power button 3 usb 2.0 ports and one usb 3.0 port moving around to what i'm going to be calling the back side we have full size hdmi gigabit ethernet and our power in now this only accepts 12 volts i was really hoping that it would run on five but on their website they do recommend 12 volts at at least 3 amps up to 5 amps and i really think it comes down to the i o they've packed into this thing just to have a little extra power for that extra stuff we want to attach to this board because right out of the box this does have an open-ended x4 pci e slot a dsi connector csi connector e-ink connector a sata connector 20 gpio pins and there's a lot more to this i will leave a link to the website in the description i would highly recommend reading through the spec list but one thing i love about these pine boards is most of them do accept an emmc module which is much faster than a micro sd card now we can boot this from a micro sd card or emmc and right now over on their wiki page you can download the android 11 build it's a beta build but i've installed it to a 16 gigabyte emmc module and that's what we're going to be taking a look at in this video when it comes to the basic specs of the quartz 64 model a for the cpu we have that rockchip arcade 3566 this is a quad core cortex a55 cpu running it up to 2 gigahertz the gpu is a mali g52 mp2 they offer two different ram variants of this board you can get four and eight i opted for the eight gigabyte model and uh just go ahead and take a look down the list here some of the more notable stuff here is that pcie 4x slot this is an open-ended slot and personally i haven't been able to get any gpus working in here now hopefully in the future somebody can we have 20 gpio pins a dsi port an edp port e-ink interface csi port up to an eight megapixel camera an rtc port and a lithium battery port so you could run this off of a battery and i'm not sure if they're offering the correct battery on their website i'm sure they will once this is officially released to the public but for now i'm going to be running this off of a 12 volt 3 amp power supply directly plugged into the wall the board that i have here is the model a but in the future they will be offering a model b basically with the same specs minus a lot of this io and then the same form factor as a raspberry pi or some of their other smaller boards but for now this was the only one that i could get my hands on with that rk3366 so let's go ahead and see how this thing performs alright so here we are with the latest android 11 build for this board now i do want to mention one more time that it's really early for the software but i felt that it's performing well enough to take a look at it basically all of the apps you see here were installed by me and this does not come with google play this was actually really hard to get up and running i had to do a lot of hacks to get it to work but i was able to get it to work in android 11 and i plan on doing a tutorial soon because this will actually help out a lot of these newer single board computers coming to the market with higher versions of android and no google play but just know at the time of making this video getting google play up and running on this was kind of a pain so first up i to 64. as you can see we have those four cores they're cortex a55 and this is only running at 1.8 in the future hopefully this does get bumped up to 2 gigahertz but for this one here at least in ida 64 it's only telling me we're running it 1.8 for the gpu you see we have that mali g52 i am at 1080p on this screen here and the first thing i really wanted to test was just a little bit of video playback from youtube and from here we'll just go full screen we're going to go to 1080p just to show you 1080p 60. and 1080p streaming on the chord 64 actually works really well in the past i have tested 4k video playback on the same chip not in this board but in android boxes and overall it's really not that bad right now i just can't hit up 4k with the youtube app i have installed but when it comes to streaming 1080p on this board here as you can see it works very very well now let's go ahead and move over to some benchmarks then we'll test some native android gaming and finally emulation when it comes to geekbench 5 these scores are looking pretty low and i kind of expected this i have tested the same chip in other android boxes in the past single core 132 multi 460. i also tried to run antutu and unfortunately we cannot get the gpu test to run even with the light version of antutu but overall score here is 96 336. keep in mind this will increase down the road once we can get those gpu benchmarks to factor in moving over to some native android gaming first up we have minecraft eight chunks fancy graphics off it's not the best that i've seen but it's definitely not the worst i don't think we're even getting a steady 30 out of it and i could still go down to six chunks but i left it at eight to see what it would do stardew valley very simple game it's running at full speed i mean you're gonna get great performance out of these easier to run games when it comes to 3d at least right now in this version of android i personally haven't got amazing performance out of this little thing yet but the 2d stuff works just fine and the final android game i wanted to test was real racing 3 this is one i always like to test on lower end arm chips because it's a very well optimized game it's been out for a while and the way this is performing right now is basically the same as an s905 chip would perform now it's time to check out a little bit of emulation first up we have n64 i actually opted to use retro arch and the moo pin 64 plus core i was having issues with the scope storage and the other apps because we're running android 11 here but when it comes to n64 performance i'd say that this is on par with the amlogic s905 x2 and x3 next up we have dreamcast and initially i wanted to use redream but i kept getting crashes as soon as i started the game up so i had to go back to retroarch with the flycast core and even with something a little simpler to run which is marvel vs capcom 2 we can't quite hit that 60 mark and finally psp using the standalone version of ppsspp 1x resolution no hacks i am using the vulcan back in the easier games actually perform really well but even with this one here soul calibur broken destiny if i go up to 2x performance really takes a hit i'm talking we're down to around 48 fps of 2x with this game but at 1x it can run it continuously at 60. so overall when it comes to android performance right now i'd say that these chips are on par with the s905x3 i mean taking a look at psp performance dreamcast n64 and even native android gaming i mean they're right there neck and neck and it really does make sense because what we have with this is an a55 core versus the a53 and the s905 and we actually have the same exact gpu the mali g52 so this is definitely not a powerhouse when it comes to android but you know i've yet to get a good build of linux that was really stable and i could show off for any of these boards that i have with the rk3366 and as soon as somebody releases a decent build which i'm sure pine 64 will in the next few months or maybe even the next few weeks i will make a video showing off linux performance with this chip because that's really what i'm interested in right now we already have a great option for android and it's been on the market for a little while i've mentioned it the amlogic s905 and we're getting basically the same exact performance only that s905 is readily available in super cheap android tv boxes that you can pick up for as little as 15 on ebay and amazon but i will keep an eye out for any new linux releases for this board and i will make a video so definitely stay tuned to the channel if you're interested in seeing that i will leave links in the description to pine64's website definitely check out the i o specs on this board because it's got you covered in all aspects and if you're interested in a smaller version of this i'll also leave a link to the model b version in the description but that's going to wrap it up for this one if there's anything else you want to see running on the rk3566 or if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at an upcoming single board computer from pine 64 known as the quartz 64 model a and one of the big reasons i wanted to pick this up and take a look at it is because it's powered by the new rockchip rk 3566 at two gigahertz and this one here has eight gigabytes of lp ddr4 ram right out of the box now these are available for purchase on pine64's website but uh in the description they state you really shouldn't purchase it unless you're a developer because right now there's not a lot of software available for it but i've been doing a lot of testing with their android builds that they've been posting on their wiki and it's actually performing really really well so we can take a look at it today and keep in mind we're only going to be running android for this video but i did want to give you a first look at the quartz 64 from pine 64. so as you can see it's a much larger board than the raspberry pi 4 but if you take a look at their spec sheet they have packed a lot of i o into this little thing i was really impressed reading through the list so just taking a look up front here we have our 3.5 millimeter audio jack a reset power button 3 usb 2.0 ports and one usb 3.0 port moving around to what i'm going to be calling the back side we have full size hdmi gigabit ethernet and our power in now this only accepts 12 volts i was really hoping that it would run on five but on their website they do recommend 12 volts at at least 3 amps up to 5 amps and i really think it comes down to the i o they've packed into this thing just to have a little extra power for that extra stuff we want to attach to this board because right out of the box this does have an open-ended x4 pci e slot a dsi connector csi connector e-ink connector a sata connector 20 gpio pins and there's a lot more to this i will leave a link to the website in the description i would highly recommend reading through the spec list but one thing i love about these pine boards is most of them do accept an emmc module which is much faster than a micro sd card now we can boot this from a micro sd card or emmc and right now over on their wiki page you can download the android 11 build it's a beta build but i've installed it to a 16 gigabyte emmc module and that's what we're going to be taking a look at in this video when it comes to the basic specs of the quartz 64 model a for the cpu we have that rockchip arcade 3566 this is a quad core cortex a55 cpu running it up to 2 gigahertz the gpu is a mali g52 mp2 they offer two different ram variants of this board you can get four and eight i opted for the eight gigabyte model and uh just go ahead and take a look down the list here some of the more notable stuff here is that pcie 4x slot this is an open-ended slot and personally i haven't been able to get any gpus working in here now hopefully in the future somebody can we have 20 gpio pins a dsi port an edp port e-ink interface csi port up to an eight megapixel camera an rtc port and a lithium battery port so you could run this off of a battery and i'm not sure if they're offering the correct battery on their website i'm sure they will once this is officially released to the public but for now i'm going to be running this off of a 12 volt 3 amp power supply directly plugged into the wall the board that i have here is the model a but in the future they will be offering a model b basically with the same specs minus a lot of this io and then the same form factor as a raspberry pi or some of their other smaller boards but for now this was the only one that i could get my hands on with that rk3366 so let's go ahead and see how this thing performs alright so here we are with the latest android 11 build for this board now i do want to mention one more time that it's really early for the software but i felt that it's performing well enough to take a look at it basically all of the apps you see here were installed by me and this does not come with google play this was actually really hard to get up and running i had to do a lot of hacks to get it to work but i was able to get it to work in android 11 and i plan on doing a tutorial soon because this will actually help out a lot of these newer single board computers coming to the market with higher versions of android and no google play but just know at the time of making this video getting google play up and running on this was kind of a pain so first up i to 64. as you can see we have those four cores they're cortex a55 and this is only running at 1.8 in the future hopefully this does get bumped up to 2 gigahertz but for this one here at least in ida 64 it's only telling me we're running it 1.8 for the gpu you see we have that mali g52 i am at 1080p on this screen here and the first thing i really wanted to test was just a little bit of video playback from youtube and from here we'll just go full screen we're going to go to 1080p just to show you 1080p 60. and 1080p streaming on the chord 64 actually works really well in the past i have tested 4k video playback on the same chip not in this board but in android boxes and overall it's really not that bad right now i just can't hit up 4k with the youtube app i have installed but when it comes to streaming 1080p on this board here as you can see it works very very well now let's go ahead and move over to some benchmarks then we'll test some native android gaming and finally emulation when it comes to geekbench 5 these scores are looking pretty low and i kind of expected this i have tested the same chip in other android boxes in the past single core 132 multi 460. i also tried to run antutu and unfortunately we cannot get the gpu test to run even with the light version of antutu but overall score here is 96 336. keep in mind this will increase down the road once we can get those gpu benchmarks to factor in moving over to some native android gaming first up we have minecraft eight chunks fancy graphics off it's not the best that i've seen but it's definitely not the worst i don't think we're even getting a steady 30 out of it and i could still go down to six chunks but i left it at eight to see what it would do stardew valley very simple game it's running at full speed i mean you're gonna get great performance out of these easier to run games when it comes to 3d at least right now in this version of android i personally haven't got amazing performance out of this little thing yet but the 2d stuff works just fine and the final android game i wanted to test was real racing 3 this is one i always like to test on lower end arm chips because it's a very well optimized game it's been out for a while and the way this is performing right now is basically the same as an s905 chip would perform now it's time to check out a little bit of emulation first up we have n64 i actually opted to use retro arch and the moo pin 64 plus core i was having issues with the scope storage and the other apps because we're running android 11 here but when it comes to n64 performance i'd say that this is on par with the amlogic s905 x2 and x3 next up we have dreamcast and initially i wanted to use redream but i kept getting crashes as soon as i started the game up so i had to go back to retroarch with the flycast core and even with something a little simpler to run which is marvel vs capcom 2 we can't quite hit that 60 mark and finally psp using the standalone version of ppsspp 1x resolution no hacks i am using the vulcan back in the easier games actually perform really well but even with this one here soul calibur broken destiny if i go up to 2x performance really takes a hit i'm talking we're down to around 48 fps of 2x with this game but at 1x it can run it continuously at 60. so overall when it comes to android performance right now i'd say that these chips are on par with the s905x3 i mean taking a look at psp performance dreamcast n64 and even native android gaming i mean they're right there neck and neck and it really does make sense because what we have with this is an a55 core versus the a53 and the s905 and we actually have the same exact gpu the mali g52 so this is definitely not a powerhouse when it comes to android but you know i've yet to get a good build of linux that was really stable and i could show off for any of these boards that i have with the rk3366 and as soon as somebody releases a decent build which i'm sure pine 64 will in the next few months or maybe even the next few weeks i will make a video showing off linux performance with this chip because that's really what i'm interested in right now we already have a great option for android and it's been on the market for a little while i've mentioned it the amlogic s905 and we're getting basically the same exact performance only that s905 is readily available in super cheap android tv boxes that you can pick up for as little as 15 on ebay and amazon but i will keep an eye out for any new linux releases for this board and i will make a video so definitely stay tuned to the channel if you're interested in seeing that i will leave links in the description to pine64's website definitely check out the i o specs on this board because it's got you covered in all aspects and if you're interested in a smaller version of this i'll also leave a link to the model b version in the description but that's going to wrap it up for this one if there's anything else you want to see running on the rk3566 or if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching you\n"