**The Rockchip RK3588: A Powerhouse Single-Board Computer**

In this video, we've been making a point about the capabilities of the Rockchip RK3588, one of the best ARM chips for single-board computers. It's not just a slouch when it comes to power, and its performance is definitely on par with other powerful ARM chips available in the market today. But what really sets this chip apart is its ability to run AAA games at respectable frame rates.

**Half-Life 2: A Proof of Concept**

One of the most impressive demos we've shown so far has been running Half-Life 2, a game that's typically associated with high-end hardware. The Steam version of the game was ported over to the RK3588 and ran smoothly, with an average frame rate of around 45 FPS at 720p low settings. While it may not be as smooth as expected, especially when compared to more powerful systems, this still shows that the Rockchip RK3588 is capable of handling demanding games like Half-Life 2.

**Emulation: A Versatile Feature**

Another feature that sets the RK3588 apart from other single-board computers is its excellent emulation capabilities. We've seen PSP, GameCube, Wii, and even PS2 emulators running on this platform, all without requiring any significant tweaking or modifications. This makes it an ideal choice for retro gaming enthusiasts who want to relive their childhood favorites on a modern device.

**PPSSPP Emulation**

One of the most impressive demos we've shown so far has been running PSP games using the Standalone version of PPSSPP. With 2x resolution, the game ran smoothly at 60 FPS, with only some minor stutters present in the harder-to-emulate titles like Chains of Olympus. This level of performance is a testament to the RK3588's capabilities and makes it an excellent choice for PSP enthusiasts.

**GameCube Emulation: A Mixed Bag**

GameCube emulation on the RK3588 has been a mixed bag, with some games running smoothly at full speed while others suffered from stutters and other issues. TimeSplitters, Mario Kart, and Sunshine were all able to run at full speed without any problems, but Automotive List was slightly more challenging, dipping below 60 FPS in some cases.

**PS2 Emulation: A Delight**

Finally, we've seen PS2 emulation on the RK3588 using Ethers X2, a highly optimized emulator that takes advantage of the device's Vulcan backend. With 2x resolution, Gran Turismo 4 ran smoothly at 60 FPS, and even God of War 2 was able to run without any issues. However, some games like Crash Bandicoot and Kingdom Hearts 2 were slightly more challenging, requiring a lower resolution (1x or 3x) to keep up with the frame rate.

**Conclusion: A Promising Future**

Overall, we've been impressed by the capabilities of the Rockchip RK3588, especially when it comes to emulation. While there's still some work to be done, especially in terms of tweaking and optimizing certain games, this single-board computer has a lot of potential for the future. With the ability to run AAA games at respectable frame rates and excellent emulation capabilities, the RK3588 is definitely a powerhouse that should not be underestimated.

**Additional Resources**

If you're interested in learning more about the Rockchip RK3588 or want to try this operating system out for yourself, we've included some links to the official Radaxa website and other resources in the description. We'll also be doing some further development on this platform, including tweaking and optimizing certain games to take advantage of its capabilities.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat you're seeing on screen right now is the steam version of portal running on an armed single board computer I mean this is really awesome and this operating system makes it really easy to do so hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again the singleboard computer can actually run Steam games now I will admit it's not going to run every single steam game but it's really impressive to see what we can do with this and to tell you the truth now it's pretty simple to do this with the help of a modified RB and operating system from monka blant known as afterburner we'll take a look at that in just a second but real quick I did want to go over the board if you're not familiar with the rock 5 this is definitely a powerful arm-based singleboard computer that's come to Market it's using a rock chip rk3588 we've seen several devices release with this in 2022 and even 2023 now but the main claim to fame when it comes to the rk3588 is the GPU it's using a Mali g610 which in terms of a singleboard computer it's a really powerful GPU when you compare it to others that are on the market right now and that's where all of this really comes in now on the Raspberry Pi 4 we were actually able to run PC games using something known as box 86 or even wine but we just didn't have that power behind it to kind of push those games to full speed or at least close to full speed but now with the newly updated Mali drivers known as pan frost on the arcade 3588 we're getting some amazing performance with box 86 box 64 and wine now I've actually got two of these boards both of them do have 16 gigabytes of RAM but uh the main one that I've been using is in the official radaxa case this is a passively cooled aluminum case and I'm going to be running my operating system from a 256 gigabyte m.2 SSD I've already got the one set up in the case ready to go with the operating system we're going to be taking a look at if you're interested in testing this out I'll leave a link in the description to The radaxa Forum you can head right over here and download it this is monka blance afterburner armbee and image for the rock 5 and there's lots of great information over here latest download is usually going to be at the very bottom here but uh this has so much information you definitely need to read through it latest image is uh right here it's got steam pre-installed box 86 wine desktop it works really well and through here they also show you how to set up the performance Governor which is definitely going to up the performance on this rk3588 but yeah I mean the way it sits right now this is one of the best images or operating systems that I've tested with this chipset so far all right so jumping right into it this is based on the latest r b and Jammy as making this video here we've got the gnome desktop you can customize this if you want to but one of the best things about this whole operating system being set up is we do have wine and box 86 plus the pan Frost drivers for this Mali GPU which really does help out with GPU performance especially with opengl applications and while we're running a lot of these PC games which we're going to be taking a look at we will be using opengl out of the box Governor is going to be set to On Demand but you probably want to set it to Performance really helps out but you got to keep in mind this thing's going to get hot it's going to draw a lot more power I've seen this thing pull up to 16 Watts having a cooling fan is definitely recommended to keep those temps down but I've got the passively cooled case from radaxa for the rock 5. the case itself does get really hot I think I could still thermal throttle this even though we've got a lot of aluminum here this operating system is really quick on this board I'm really surprised at how well it works now in the past we've taken a look at a couple Ubuntu builds for this board or at least the rk3588 but this is definitely the quickest and we've got steam pre-installed wearing steam's small mode right now which just shows us the games that we can install kinda alleviates all of the UI to keep the performance up but you can go full with it if you want to it's a bit slower on this arm chip but it does work now a lot of the stuff that works natively without any kind of configuration are the 2D games that are made for Linux and especially the source games Counter-Strike Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2 even runs and I think that was one of the most impressive things that I saw here but you know other than emulation and gaming on this operating system in this board in general this is a really Snappy system a lot of people could get by just using this as our everyday desktop PC Email checking document editing you could do some photo editing video playback and we do have Kodi pre-installed so if you wanted to build the little Media Center not a problem and if you don't want to have to touch terminal we've got the gnome software Center built in so you can go through here and download all of the apps you need but I did want to get into some PC gaming on arm because I thought this was really impressive and I've used box 86 in the past I've actually made a few videos on it with the Raspberry Pi 4. now we've got a much more powerful board here and we can do a lot more so the first game I'm starting up is Left 4 Dead 2. remember this is running on an armed ship right now the way I've got this set up right now is 720p low settings FPS is up in the top left-hand corner and with everything going on we're at about 30 FPS which really isn't bad but I know it might not sound impressive to some people given the age of this game but the main thing you got to keep in mind is this game was never meant to be run on an armed chip right now it's using box 86 to run it on this armed chip and yeah I mean this isn't some ported version for arm at all this is the x86 Linux version of Left 4 Dead 2. next up we've got portal now this is running at about 80 FPS more than playable and it's kind of staying steady here I think through this whole setup we could definitely get over 60 FPS I tried Portal 2 but I kept getting some crashing so yeah I mean you're definitely going to run into some issues but it's really awesome to see these x86 games running so well on an arm chip the rk3588 isn't a slouch and it's definitely one of the best arm chips for a single board computer right now as making this video but there are more powerful arm chips on the market in fact you probably have one in your pocket write your Android or your iPhone right now so in the future we'll definitely be able to run AAA games on arm but you know this is a great start for these single board computers and finally here Half-Life 2 this is not a port of the game or anything like that this is the steam version for x86 running on an arm chip we're at about 45 FPS 720p low settings and uh you know next generation of these Rock Chip CPUs will definitely be able to take this over 60 FPS but I do think that with some tweaking from developers they could get these games at least the three that I've shown to run relatively well on the rk3588 remember with this operating system I didn't have to do any kind of tweaking whatsoever to get these up and running I just downloaded them through Steam and started them up so yeah it's really awesome seeing those x86 games running on an arm chip but another thing we have here with this operating system is some really good emulation PSP GameCube Wii and even PS2 runs really well on this setup I'm using the Standalone version of PPSSPP where at 2x resolution and we'll go with a harder one to emulate chains of Olympus I downloaded the Standalone emulator from The Gnome software Center directly in the operating system and unfortunately with this build here I only have access to opengl so 2x resolution is kind of the max with this harder to run game but if you compiled this from Source you could probably get access to Vulcan and go up a bit higher but I still think it looks good at 2X and it's running at 60 FPS next up we've got some GameCube emulation and I do notice some stutters here especially with these harder to emulate games so a little more optimization with the drivers and this emulator could definitely help out but when it comes to the easier to emulate stuff time Splitters Mario Kart even sunshine you could run those at full speed and have a really good time with it Automotive list is one of my go-to's it's definitely a harder one to emulate Vulcan back in Native resolution it's not horrible but yeah it does dip under 60. and the final thing I wanted to take a look at here was some PS2 emulation using ethers X2 you do have to head over to the official ether sx2 website go to the development section and download the arm desktop version remember ethers X2 is only Built for arm but it does work with this operating system and a lot of others that you can run on this board we're going with the Vulcan backend 2x resolution and we're going to test out one of my favorite games here Gran Turismo 4 so at 2x resolution with the Vulcan back in looking pretty good here and even God of War 2 will run on this board but you need to drop it down to 1x resolution if you wanted to play some easier to emulate stuff like Crash Bandicoot and even Kingdom Hearts 2 you could go up to 3x with those so yeah this operating system has been absolutely amazing on the Rock 5. I've been having a really good time with it when it comes to emulation and even PC gaming there's a lot of tweaking you can do in the background to get more games running but I kind of wanted to show you all you really need to do is download this flash it to your board I'm running from an nvme drive and you can download games from Steam and start playing them right now on an arm chip there's a lot more that can be done with this but I just kind of wanted to show it off up front and I will be doing some tweaking with it I'll definitely keep an eye on it there's a lot more that I want to try out here like non-stein games I've got a lot of DRM free stuff from Gog and I think some of that stuff would probably just work right over here really well but I need to get it all transferred over and see what we can do but the way everything's going right now with this chipset I think we're going to see some awesome stuff in the future but that's gonna wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching if you've already got a rock 5 and you want to try this operating system out link for it will be in the description and if you just want to learn more about the rock 5 itself I'll leave some links to the official radaxa website if you have any questions let me know down below like always thanks for watchingwhat you're seeing on screen right now is the steam version of portal running on an armed single board computer I mean this is really awesome and this operating system makes it really easy to do so hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again the singleboard computer can actually run Steam games now I will admit it's not going to run every single steam game but it's really impressive to see what we can do with this and to tell you the truth now it's pretty simple to do this with the help of a modified RB and operating system from monka blant known as afterburner we'll take a look at that in just a second but real quick I did want to go over the board if you're not familiar with the rock 5 this is definitely a powerful arm-based singleboard computer that's come to Market it's using a rock chip rk3588 we've seen several devices release with this in 2022 and even 2023 now but the main claim to fame when it comes to the rk3588 is the GPU it's using a Mali g610 which in terms of a singleboard computer it's a really powerful GPU when you compare it to others that are on the market right now and that's where all of this really comes in now on the Raspberry Pi 4 we were actually able to run PC games using something known as box 86 or even wine but we just didn't have that power behind it to kind of push those games to full speed or at least close to full speed but now with the newly updated Mali drivers known as pan frost on the arcade 3588 we're getting some amazing performance with box 86 box 64 and wine now I've actually got two of these boards both of them do have 16 gigabytes of RAM but uh the main one that I've been using is in the official radaxa case this is a passively cooled aluminum case and I'm going to be running my operating system from a 256 gigabyte m.2 SSD I've already got the one set up in the case ready to go with the operating system we're going to be taking a look at if you're interested in testing this out I'll leave a link in the description to The radaxa Forum you can head right over here and download it this is monka blance afterburner armbee and image for the rock 5 and there's lots of great information over here latest download is usually going to be at the very bottom here but uh this has so much information you definitely need to read through it latest image is uh right here it's got steam pre-installed box 86 wine desktop it works really well and through here they also show you how to set up the performance Governor which is definitely going to up the performance on this rk3588 but yeah I mean the way it sits right now this is one of the best images or operating systems that I've tested with this chipset so far all right so jumping right into it this is based on the latest r b and Jammy as making this video here we've got the gnome desktop you can customize this if you want to but one of the best things about this whole operating system being set up is we do have wine and box 86 plus the pan Frost drivers for this Mali GPU which really does help out with GPU performance especially with opengl applications and while we're running a lot of these PC games which we're going to be taking a look at we will be using opengl out of the box Governor is going to be set to On Demand but you probably want to set it to Performance really helps out but you got to keep in mind this thing's going to get hot it's going to draw a lot more power I've seen this thing pull up to 16 Watts having a cooling fan is definitely recommended to keep those temps down but I've got the passively cooled case from radaxa for the rock 5. the case itself does get really hot I think I could still thermal throttle this even though we've got a lot of aluminum here this operating system is really quick on this board I'm really surprised at how well it works now in the past we've taken a look at a couple Ubuntu builds for this board or at least the rk3588 but this is definitely the quickest and we've got steam pre-installed wearing steam's small mode right now which just shows us the games that we can install kinda alleviates all of the UI to keep the performance up but you can go full with it if you want to it's a bit slower on this arm chip but it does work now a lot of the stuff that works natively without any kind of configuration are the 2D games that are made for Linux and especially the source games Counter-Strike Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2 even runs and I think that was one of the most impressive things that I saw here but you know other than emulation and gaming on this operating system in this board in general this is a really Snappy system a lot of people could get by just using this as our everyday desktop PC Email checking document editing you could do some photo editing video playback and we do have Kodi pre-installed so if you wanted to build the little Media Center not a problem and if you don't want to have to touch terminal we've got the gnome software Center built in so you can go through here and download all of the apps you need but I did want to get into some PC gaming on arm because I thought this was really impressive and I've used box 86 in the past I've actually made a few videos on it with the Raspberry Pi 4. now we've got a much more powerful board here and we can do a lot more so the first game I'm starting up is Left 4 Dead 2. remember this is running on an armed ship right now the way I've got this set up right now is 720p low settings FPS is up in the top left-hand corner and with everything going on we're at about 30 FPS which really isn't bad but I know it might not sound impressive to some people given the age of this game but the main thing you got to keep in mind is this game was never meant to be run on an armed chip right now it's using box 86 to run it on this armed chip and yeah I mean this isn't some ported version for arm at all this is the x86 Linux version of Left 4 Dead 2. next up we've got portal now this is running at about 80 FPS more than playable and it's kind of staying steady here I think through this whole setup we could definitely get over 60 FPS I tried Portal 2 but I kept getting some crashing so yeah I mean you're definitely going to run into some issues but it's really awesome to see these x86 games running so well on an arm chip the rk3588 isn't a slouch and it's definitely one of the best arm chips for a single board computer right now as making this video but there are more powerful arm chips on the market in fact you probably have one in your pocket write your Android or your iPhone right now so in the future we'll definitely be able to run AAA games on arm but you know this is a great start for these single board computers and finally here Half-Life 2 this is not a port of the game or anything like that this is the steam version for x86 running on an arm chip we're at about 45 FPS 720p low settings and uh you know next generation of these Rock Chip CPUs will definitely be able to take this over 60 FPS but I do think that with some tweaking from developers they could get these games at least the three that I've shown to run relatively well on the rk3588 remember with this operating system I didn't have to do any kind of tweaking whatsoever to get these up and running I just downloaded them through Steam and started them up so yeah it's really awesome seeing those x86 games running on an arm chip but another thing we have here with this operating system is some really good emulation PSP GameCube Wii and even PS2 runs really well on this setup I'm using the Standalone version of PPSSPP where at 2x resolution and we'll go with a harder one to emulate chains of Olympus I downloaded the Standalone emulator from The Gnome software Center directly in the operating system and unfortunately with this build here I only have access to opengl so 2x resolution is kind of the max with this harder to run game but if you compiled this from Source you could probably get access to Vulcan and go up a bit higher but I still think it looks good at 2X and it's running at 60 FPS next up we've got some GameCube emulation and I do notice some stutters here especially with these harder to emulate games so a little more optimization with the drivers and this emulator could definitely help out but when it comes to the easier to emulate stuff time Splitters Mario Kart even sunshine you could run those at full speed and have a really good time with it Automotive list is one of my go-to's it's definitely a harder one to emulate Vulcan back in Native resolution it's not horrible but yeah it does dip under 60. and the final thing I wanted to take a look at here was some PS2 emulation using ethers X2 you do have to head over to the official ether sx2 website go to the development section and download the arm desktop version remember ethers X2 is only Built for arm but it does work with this operating system and a lot of others that you can run on this board we're going with the Vulcan backend 2x resolution and we're going to test out one of my favorite games here Gran Turismo 4 so at 2x resolution with the Vulcan back in looking pretty good here and even God of War 2 will run on this board but you need to drop it down to 1x resolution if you wanted to play some easier to emulate stuff like Crash Bandicoot and even Kingdom Hearts 2 you could go up to 3x with those so yeah this operating system has been absolutely amazing on the Rock 5. I've been having a really good time with it when it comes to emulation and even PC gaming there's a lot of tweaking you can do in the background to get more games running but I kind of wanted to show you all you really need to do is download this flash it to your board I'm running from an nvme drive and you can download games from Steam and start playing them right now on an arm chip there's a lot more that can be done with this but I just kind of wanted to show it off up front and I will be doing some tweaking with it I'll definitely keep an eye on it there's a lot more that I want to try out here like non-stein games I've got a lot of DRM free stuff from Gog and I think some of that stuff would probably just work right over here really well but I need to get it all transferred over and see what we can do but the way everything's going right now with this chipset I think we're going to see some awesome stuff in the future but that's gonna wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching if you've already got a rock 5 and you want to try this operating system out link for it will be in the description and if you just want to learn more about the rock 5 itself I'll leave some links to the official radaxa website if you have any questions let me know down below like always thanks for watching\n"