Orange Pi RV2 – A $30+ RISC-V SBC powered by Ky X1 octa-core SoC with a 2 TOPS AI accelerator
Quoting: Orange Pi RV2 - A $30+ RISC-V SBC powered by Ky X1 octa-core SoC with a 2 TOPS AI accelerator - CNX Software —
Orange Pi says the RV2 SBC supports Ubuntu 24.04, but a Chinese website also mentions OpenHarmony 5.0 OS support with DeepSeek R1 (distilled) models. I could not find any information about the Ky X1 SoC. The product page for the board mentions the single-core integer performance of the RISC-V core is 130% of that of the Arm Cortex-A55 (at the same frequency, I assume), while the power consumption is only 80% of the Cortex-A55 core.
Despite the presence of HDMI and MIPI DSI display interfaces and two camera inputs, there’s no mention of the 3D GPU or VPU for hardware video encoding or decoding, so it’s unclear whether those are present in the X1 SoC. Orange Pi also tells us target applications include NAS, commercial electronic products, intelligent robots, smart home, industrial control, and edge computing, none of which necessarily require a GPU or VPU. Sadly, the documentation section on the product page is only a placeholder, and all icons pointing to empty folders on Google Drive for now.
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Regarding operating systems, the OrangePi RV2 runs Ubuntu 24.04, with optimizations for AI workloads and deep learning applications. The board is described as optimized for DeepSeek-R1 distillation models, allowing for local AI inferencing without relying on cloud computing, which can help reduce latency.