Orange Pi 5 Plus vs Radxa CM3I

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Basic Specifications
Price
$135*
$65*
RAM8GB2GB
SoC
Mali-G610 MP4
Rockchip NPU 3.0 (6 TOPS)
Mali-G52 2EE
ArchitectureARMARM
CPU Cores
8 cores
4× Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz
4× Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz
4 cores
4× Cortex-A55 @ 2.0GHz

Legend

Best value in category
Key performance metric
*Manufacturer's RRP
**Affiliate link that may result in commissions if you purchase a qualifying item
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
Radxa CM3I (2GB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
863
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
No Data
Multi-Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
3,117
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
No Data

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
3,134 MIPS
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
1,425 MIPS
Multi-Core Combined
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
16,584 MIPS
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
4,923 MIPS

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
46.07 GFLOPS
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
7.74 GFLOPS
Performance/Watt
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
2.93 GFLOPS/W
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
0.83 GFLOPS/W

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
1,483
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
336
Multi Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
6,908
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
1,112

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
3,211
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
709

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
3.67 kH/s
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
1.9 kH/s
Multi Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
21.64 kH/s
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
7.56 kH/s

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

TinyMemBench

Higher Bandwidth is Better

memcpy
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
No Data
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
1,533.6 MB/s
memset
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
No Data
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
4,626.7 MB/s

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

RAM Score
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
1,337
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
544

AI & LLM Performance

Large Language Model inference performance

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Tokens/sec
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
9.47 tok/s
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
No Data
Tokens/Watt
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
0.87 tok/W
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
No Data
Tokens/Dollar
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
0.07 tok/$
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
No Data

Storage Performance

Disk I/O throughput measured with FIO

fio Storage Performance - microSD

Higher Speeds are Better • Raspberry Pi 64GB (64GB microSD), Raspberry Pi 32GB (32GB microSD)

4K Random Read
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
7.6 MB/s
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
12.6 MB/s
4K Random Write
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
11.1 MB/s
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
5.1 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - eMMC

Higher Speeds are Better • Orange Pi 32GB (32GB eMMC), Radxa CM3I (8GB eMMC)

4K Random Read
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
33.4 MB/s
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
25.7 MB/s
4K Random Write
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
49.8 MB/s
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
26.8 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - M.2 NVMe

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

4K Random Read
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
993.3 MB/s
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
121.9 MB/s
4K Random Write
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
738.6 MB/s
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
78.1 MB/s

Network Performance

Ethernet and WiFi throughput measured with iPerf3

iPerf3 Network Performance

Higher Speeds are Better

Ethernet Up
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
2,353 Mbps
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
942 Mbps
Ethernet Down
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
2,352 Mbps
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
942 Mbps

Power & Thermal

Power consumption at idle and under various workloads

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Idle Power
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
2.8W
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
4.8W
Load Power
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
7.5W
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
7.6W
Ollama Max
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
10.9W
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
No Data
Linpack Max
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
15.7W
Radxa CM3I (2GB)
9.1W

Add One More Board

You can compare up to 3 boards at once. Add one more to get the complete comparison.