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Radxa Dragon Q6A 6GB

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Radxa
Dragon Q6A (6GB)
Basic Specifications
Price$70*
RAM6GB
SoCQualcomm QCS6490
ArchitectureARM
CPU Cores
8 cores
1× Cortex-A78 @ 2.7GHz
3× Cortex-A78 @ 2.4GHz
4× Cortex-A55 @ 1.9GHz

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Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1,180
Multi-Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3,215

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3,829 MIPS
Multi-Core Combined
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
17,401 MIPS

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
38.66 GFLOPS
Performance/Watt
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3.83 GFLOPS/W

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1,310
Multi Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
5,300

PassMark PerformanceTest

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3,525
RAM Score
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1,871

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
5.07 kH/s
Multi Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
26.25 kH/s

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Idle Power
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
2.5W
Load Power
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
6.4W
Ollama Max
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
7.5W
Linpack Max
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
10.1W

iPerf3 Network Performance

Higher Speeds are Better

Ethernet Up
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
941 Mbps
Ethernet Down
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
941 Mbps

fio Storage Performance - microSD

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

4K Random Read
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
17.4 MB/s
4K Random Write
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
13.9 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - eMMC

Higher Speeds are Better • Radxa UFS (128GB eMMC)

4K Random Read
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
475.1 MB/s
4K Random Write
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
254.9 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - M.2 NVMe

Higher Speeds are Better • Crucial P5 Plus (1024GB M.2 NVMe)

4K Random Read
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
608.5 MB/s
4K Random Write
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
437.4 MB/s

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Tokens/sec
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
8.82 tok/s
Tokens/Watt
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1.18 tok/W