Orange Pi Zero 3W is Raspberry Pi Zero-sized SBC powered by an Allwinner A733 octa-core Arm Cortex-A76/A55 SoC paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, a microSD card slot, and footprints for eMMC flash or UFS storage.
Other features include a 4K-capable mini HDMI port, two USB-C ports, one with DP 1.4 Alt mode, a MIPI DSI display connector, two MIPI CSI camera connectors, a WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 module, and a 40-pin GPIO header.
OrangePi Zero 3W specifications:
- SoC – Allwinner A733
- CPU
- Dual-core Arm Cortex-A76 @ up to 2.00 GHz
- Hexa-core Arm Cortex-A55 @ up to 1.79 GHz
- Single-core RISC-V E902 real-time core up to 200 MHz
- GPU – Imagination Technologies BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0
- VPU
- 8Kp24 H.265/VP9/AVS2 decoding
- 4Kp30 H.265/H.264 encoding
- AI accelerator – 3 TOPS NPU
- CPU
- System Memory – 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 12GB, or 16GB LPDDR5 at 4,800 MT/s
- Storage
- MicroSD card slot up to 128GB
- Footprint for optional 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, or 64GB eMMC flash module
- Footprint for optional 32GB, 64GB, or 128GB 2-lane UFS 3.0 module
- Video Output
- Mini HDMI 2.0 port up to 4Kp60 resolution
- 4-lane MIPI DSI connector
- USB-C port with DisplayPort Alt mode up to 4Kp60
- Support for dual independent display setups
- Camera interface – 2x 4-lane MIPI CSI connectors
- Networking – Dual-band WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 module (Cdtech 20800D8-00) + IPEX antenna connector
- USB
- USB 3.1 OTG Type-C port with DisplayPort 1.4 Alt. mode
- USB 2.0 Type-C power port
- Expansion
- 40-pin color-coded GPIO header supporting GPIO, UART, I2C, SPI, and PWM.
- PCIe Gen3 x1 FPC connector
- Misc
- Power and BOOT through holes
- 2-pin fan header
- Power Supply – 5V/3A via USB-C connector
- Dimensions – 65 x 32 mm
- Weight – 14 grams
Orange Pi plans to provide Orange Pi OS (Arch), Ubuntu, Debian, and Android (15) images for the Pi Zero 3W, but all links on the product page currently point to empty Google Drive shares. They should become available in the next few days or weeks.
The Orange Pi Zero 3W is very similar to the Radxa Cubie A7Z introduced last year, but replaces the micro HDMI port with a mini HDMI port and LPDDR4 with LPDDR5, and adds one MIPI CSI camera connector, one MIPI DSI display connector, as well as a footprint for an eMMC flash. We were previously promised mainline Linux support for the Allwinner A733 SoC, but it’s clearly not happening when looking at recent Linux changelogs, including the one for the just-released Linux 7.0.
The 16GB version is not available yet, but Orange Pi released pricing for the Zero 3W SBC as follows:
- 1GB RAM – $25
- 2GB RAM – $35
- 4GB RAM – $50
- 6GB RAM – $60
- 8GB RAM – $80
- 12GB RAM – $99.90
- Cooling fan – $5.99
Those prices seem reasonable in a world where the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB now sells for $175. You can purchase the boards with the cooling fan on AliExpress and on Amazon with a small markup.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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