Sipeed LicheePi 4A vs Radxa ROCK 5B

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Basic Specifications
Price
RAM8GB8GB
SoC
PowerVR® Rogue™ BXM-4-64
Mali-G610 MP4
Rockchip NPU 3.0 (6 TOPS)
ArchitectureRISC-VARM
CPU Cores
4 cores
4× RV64GC @ 1.9GHz
8 cores
4× Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz
4× Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz

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Detailed Reviews

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Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
130
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
849
Multi-Core
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
380
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3,043

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
1,429 MIPS
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3,113 MIPS
Multi-Core Combined
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
4,773 MIPS
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
16,486 MIPS

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
5.28 GFLOPS
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
41.58 GFLOPS
Performance/Watt
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
0.58 GFLOPS/W
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2.17 GFLOPS/W

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
No Data
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
1,376
Multi Core
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
No Data
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
6,340

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
No Data
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2,911

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
No Data
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3.7 kH/s
Multi Core
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
No Data
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
21.76 kH/s

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

TinyMemBench

Higher Bandwidth is Better

memcpy
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
3,953.9 MB/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
memset
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
13,888.5 MB/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

RAM Score
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
No Data
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
1,402

AI & LLM Performance

Large Language Model inference performance

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Tokens/sec
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
No Data
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
0.21 tok/s
Tokens/Watt
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
No Data
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
0.02 tok/W

Storage Performance

Disk I/O throughput measured with FIO

fio Storage Performance - microSD

Higher Speeds are Better • Raspberry Pi 64GB (64GB microSD)

4K Random Read
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
16.1 MB/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
4K Random Write
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
12.3 MB/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data

fio Storage Performance - eMMC

Higher Speeds are Better • Sipeed LicheePi 4A (32GB eMMC)

4K Random Read
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
37.5 MB/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
4K Random Write
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
54.9 MB/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data

Network Performance

Ethernet and WiFi throughput measured with iPerf3

iPerf3 Network Performance

Higher Speeds are Better

Ethernet Up
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
941 Mbps
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2,352 Mbps
Ethernet Down
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
935 Mbps
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2,358 Mbps

Power & Thermal

Power consumption at idle and under various workloads

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Idle Power
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
4.8W
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
4.5W
Load Power
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
7.3W
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
9.5W
Ollama Max
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
No Data
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
14.7W
Linpack Max
Sipeed LicheePi 4A (8GB)
9.1W
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
19.2W

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