The Turris Omnia NG is a high-performance Wi-Fi 7 router with a mini PCIe slot for 4G/5G modems, two 10GbE SFP+ cages, a 240×240 px color display, and a D-Pad button, running OpenWrt-based Turris OS, and designed for advanced home users, small businesses, and lab environments.
Built around a 2.2 GHz Qualcomm IPQ9574 quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A73 CPU, the Omnia NG supports Wi-Fi 7/6 tri-band connectivity. Additionally, it features four 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports, NVMe storage support, and includes a 90 W power supply for attached peripherals. Other hardware highlights include rack-mount supports, a metal chassis, and antenna arrays for 4×4 MIMO operation. It comes 10 years after the original Turris Omnia open-source router was launched on Indiegogo.
Turris Omnia NG Router specifications:
- CPU – Qualcomm IPQ9574 quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 processor @ 2.2GHz processor
- Memory – 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 8 GB eMMC storage
- M.2 socket for NVMe SSD
- Display – 240 × 240 px IPS color display
- Networking
- Wi-Fi
- 6 GHz – Wi-Fi 7 (up to 11,530 Mbps)
- 5 GHz – Wi-Fi 7 (up to 8,647 Mbps)
- 2.4 GHz – Wi-Fi 6 (up to 800 Mbps)
- 4×4 MIMO per band, up to 8 antennas
- WAN – 10 Gbps Ethernet SFP+ cage
- LAN
- 10 Gbps Ethernet SFP+ cage
- 4x 2.5 GbE RJ45 ports
- Optional 4G LTE/5G cellular connectivity via mini PCIe slot
- Wi-Fi
- USB – 2x USB 3.0 ports
- Security – Turris Sentinel firewall system
- Misc
- D-Pad to control the display’s menu
- Passive cooling
- RGB status LEDs
- SIM slot for cellular modems
- Dimensions – 280 × 241 × 143 mm
- Operating temperature – 0 to 40°C
- Encloser – Metal enclosure; rack-mount ready
- Package weight – 1,750 grams
Security features include the adaptive Turris Sentinel firewall system, which analyzes network activity across the global Turris ecosystem to detect and mitigate threats in real time. This distributed protection model allows the router to receive automatic updates and maintain continuous monitoring without requiring user intervention.
In terms of software support, the Wi-Fi 7 router runs OpenWrt-based Turris OS with support for LXC containerization, automatic updates, and a web interface for installing and managing preferred Linux distributions directly on the device. More information can be found in the documentation for the software and the hardware.
It’s the third platform based on the IPQ9574 SoC we’ve covered. The other two are the AL02 / DR9574 reference board from Qualcomm we noted in 2023, and more recently, the Nexalta Guardian private cloud platform, which tries to implement a lot of features into a single device, and includes slots for Rockchip RK3588 or NVIDIA Jetson system-on-modules, as well as M.2 socket for AI accelerator modules to handle local AI. All those hardware platforms support 10GbE and WiFi 7, but the Turris Omnia NG is a complete router and focuses exclusively on networking.
The Turris Omnia NG is available on discomp for €453.57 before VAT, or about €548.90 with VAT, which corresponds to roughly $526 and $638 USD at the time of writing.
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Wifi is based on which chip?
Something from Qualcomm obviously.
More specifically it’s the QCN-5124 for the 2.4 GHz band and QCN-6274 for the 5 and 6 GHz bands.
The latter is on an M.2 card, whereas the 2.4 GHz part is soldered onto the main PCB.
Meh!
Back in the day, Turris made a big thing of being Open Source… So why haven’t they embraced dhe open specafication RISC-V yet?
open CPU ISA != open source hardware
> why haven’t they embraced dhe open specafication RISC-V yet?
Probably because the current RISC-V chips aren’t there yet in terms of performance or other SoC features (maybe that Qualcomm chip has other networking specific goodies which generic RISC-V cpus out there lack, dunno, just an example).
Also the RISC-V ecosystem is not as mature as the others.
Why would they embrace the RISC-V open specification ?
Maybe it first needs to merge the B-extensions into the default profile so that a simple bswap doesn’t end up like this horrible mess:
https://godbolt.org/z/fM44e45dY
nor this one:
https://godbolt.org/z/Wd5x96nxE
This is definitely a no-go for anything related to networking! Spending watts reversing words when it’s only a matter of wire routing on the silicon is absurd, and shows that the CPU’s design definitely didn’t emerge from heads who checked the computer landscape and its most basic requirements before going to the white board.
Why would they have done that? That seems dumb.
The old MIPS cores where the best you could get for network routing, but alas, Arm took over and MIPS faded into obscurity.
> Why would they have done that? That seems dumb.
What is dumb is to create a little-endian architecture in the 21th century lacking the ability to read an IP address or a network port in network order using more than one instruction. It’s likely that risc-v designers were not interested in networking at all and considered that having a slow network stack was not a problem for their targeted use case.
I can understand not having such instructions for those implementing big-endian architectures (e.g. MIPS/SPARC), even though it becomes a pain to access certain file systems, but for little-endian there’s simply zero excuse, and it just illustrates how dumb and irrelevant the design is.
That is just bizarre I have to say.
Because exactly zero companies make router SoCs based on RISC-V to date?
Uh, hello Siflower! https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/22/banana-pi-bpi-rv2-low-cost-risc-v-router-siflower-sf21h8898/
Just because someone built a router out of it does not mean it’s a router soc. People build routers out of Pis for chrissakes.
Still, qcom is nogo when the MTK7998 is out there. And happily routing 10gbit for me on openwrt stable for 18 months now.
Ok, there’s one, but you could only make a very entry level router by today’s standards with that. It only has two PCIe 2.0 lanes, so bottles necks galore if you’re planning on anything above a 2×2 router. Also, it doesn’t seem to have any kind of offloading for the wireless end of things and it’s unclear which Wi-Fi modules it would work with. It seems like you might be able to get two 2.5 Gbps Ethernet interfaces, but it’s a bit unclear, but BananaPi clearly didn’t go for it and a single 2.5 Gbps port is kind of useless. But I’ll admit there is one, I had even commented on the article here about the chip, but forgot about it.
Is the 2GB limitation of SoC?
Why would you need anything more that this in a *router*?
Because you can run Linux containers on this thing?
Yes, 2GB is limitation of SOC. Robust discussion on the Turris forum: https://forum.turris.cz/t/next-generation-of-omnia-is-coming/21794/
Thanks. This is disappointing though, as it limits the usability of Turris. Turris with first Omnia marketed itself to be “ultimate home router” with NAS and other features.
Interesting specs if vanilla OpenWrt could ever be supported (with full h/w acceleration). This is much more interesting than the Mono.si
It should run vanilla, but I’m not sure, if it makes sense. The TurrisOS is just a better silently auto-updating version of OpenWrt with an additional simple interface for beginners. You are not forced to use the simple intherface and you can use LuCI all the time.
I just ordered it last week, in the US. It was $561.43, plus $16.84 foreign transaction fee, plus $66.98 customs fee, for a total of $645.25.