Radxa Dragon Q6A vs Radxa ROCK 5B

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Basic Specifications
Price
RAM6GB8GB
SoC
Qualcomm® Adreno 643
Mali-G610 MP4
Rockchip NPU 3.0 (6 TOPS)
ArchitectureARMARM
CPU Cores
8 cores
1× Cortex-A78 @ 2.7GHz
3× Cortex-A78 @ 2.4GHz
4× Cortex-A55 @ 1.9GHz
8 cores
4× Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz
4× Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz

Legend

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Detailed Reviews

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Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1,180
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
849
Multi-Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3,215
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3,043

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3,829 MIPS
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3,113 MIPS
Multi-Core Combined
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
17,401 MIPS
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
16,486 MIPS

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
38.66 GFLOPS
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
41.58 GFLOPS
Performance/Watt
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3.83 GFLOPS/W
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2.17 GFLOPS/W

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1,310
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
1,376
Multi Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
5,300
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
6,340

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3,525
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2,911

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
5.07 kH/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
3.7 kH/s
Multi Core
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
26.25 kH/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
21.76 kH/s

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

RAM Score
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1,871
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
1,402

AI & LLM Performance

Large Language Model inference performance

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Tokens/sec
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
8.82 tok/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
0.21 tok/s
Tokens/Watt
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1.18 tok/W
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
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
17.4 MB/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
4K Random Write
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
13.9 MB/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data

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
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
4K Random Write
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
437.4 MB/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data

fio Storage Performance - UFS

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

4K Random Read
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
475.1 MB/s
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
No Data
4K Random Write
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
254.9 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
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
941 Mbps
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
2,352 Mbps
Ethernet Down
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
941 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
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
2.5W
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
4.5W
Load Power
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
6.4W
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
9.5W
Ollama Max
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
7.5W
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
14.7W
Linpack Max
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
10.1W
Radxa ROCK 5B (8GB)
19.2W

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