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Orange Pi 5 Plus vs Dshan Pi A1

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Orange Pi5 Plus (8GB)5 Plus (8GB) Product Page
Dshan Pi
A1 (4GB)A1 (4GB) Product Page
Basic Specifications
Price
$135*
AmazonAMZ**
$69*
OFF
RAM8GB4GB
SoCRockchip RK3588Rockchip RK3576
ArchitectureARMARM
CPU Cores
8 cores
4× Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz
4× Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz
8 cores
4× Cortex-A72 @ 2.2GHz
4× Cortex-A53 @ 1.8GHz

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Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
863
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
336
Multi-Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
3,117
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
1,446

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
3,134 MIPS
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
1,813 MIPS
Multi-Core Combined
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
16,584 MIPS
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
11,926 MIPS

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
46.07 GFLOPS
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
21.53 GFLOPS
Performance/Watt
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
2.93 GFLOPS/W
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
2.79 GFLOPS/W

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
1,483
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
518
Multi Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
6,908
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
3,337

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
3,211
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
2,224

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
3.67 kH/s
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
2.76 kH/s
Multi Core
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
21.64 kH/s
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
18.52 kH/s

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

TinyMemBench

Higher Bandwidth is Better

memcpy
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
No Data
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
5,730.4 MB/s
memset
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
No Data
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
16,916.2 MB/s

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

RAM Score
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
1,337
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
957

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
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
8.94 tok/s
Tokens/Watt
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
0.87 tok/W
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
1.19 tok/W
Tokens/Dollar
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
0.07 tok/$
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
0.13 tok/$

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
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
7.6 MB/s
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
8.8 MB/s
4K Random Write
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
11.1 MB/s
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
8.5 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - eMMC

Higher Speeds are Better • Orange Pi 32GB (32GB eMMC), Dshan Pi A1 (32GB eMMC)

4K Random Read
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
33.4 MB/s
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
67.7 MB/s
4K Random Write
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
49.8 MB/s
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
19.6 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
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
No Data
4K Random Write
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
738.6 MB/s
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
No Data

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
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
940 Mbps
Ethernet Down
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
2,352 Mbps
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
937 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
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
1.9W
Load Power
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
7.5W
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
5.4W
Ollama Max
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
10.9W
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
7.5W
Linpack Max
Orange Pi 5 Plus (8GB)
15.7W
Dshan Pi A1 (4GB)
7.7W

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