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Radxa Cubie A7Z vs Orange Pi Zero 3W

Tested by Bret Weber Last updated

Radxa Cubie A7ZvsOrange Pi Zero 3W

Fastest

Orange Pi Zero 3W

11,236 MIPS 7-Zip multi-core

Best value

Orange Pi Zero 3W

225 MIPS/$ at $50

Most efficient

Radxa Cubie A7Z

6.2W under load

Comparison Summary

This comparison puts the Radxa Cubie A7Z and the Orange Pi Zero 3W side by side using benchmark results from our own testing of each board. The Radxa Cubie A7Z is the most frugal under load, drawing 6.2W (1.6W at idle).

Specification
Radxa Cubie A7Z
1GB RAM
Orange Pi Zero 3W
4GB RAM
Basic Specifications
Price$46.99$50
RAM1GB4GB
SoC
Allwinner A733
Imagination BXM-4-64 MC1
NPU (3 TOPS)
Allwinner A733
Imagination BXM-4-64 MC1
NPU (3 TOPS)
ArchitectureARMARM
CPU Cores
8 cores
2× Cortex-A76 @ 2.0GHz
6× Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz
8 cores
2× Cortex-A76 @ 2.0GHz
6× Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz
Hardware Video DecodeNot Tested
None (CPU only)
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Every figure above comes from hardware run in-house by Bret Weber, on the exact OS build, kernel, firmware and boot device listed here. Boards are tested to a fixed procedure so results stay comparable between them: see our testing methodology for how each benchmark is run.

Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)2,386 MIPS 4% slower #39 of 118
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)2,474 MIPS #33 of 118
Multi-Core Combined
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)10,345 MIPS 8% slower #39 of 113
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)11,236 MIPS #34 of 113

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)1,147 #25 of 118
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)1,061 7% slower #31 of 118
Multi Core
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)4,268 #31 of 109
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)4,031 6% slower #34 of 109

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Fastest Thread
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)3.6 kH/s #31 of 108
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)3.34 kH/s 7% slower #35 of 108
Total
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)18.07 kH/s #30 of 104
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)16.99 kH/s 6% slower #32 of 104

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)Single-Core: 662#34 of 72Multi-Core: 1,727#33 of 72

Only this board has been tested so far, so there is nothing to compare against yet.

Geekbench 7

Higher Scores are Better

Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)Single-Core: 596#7 of 11

Only this board has been tested so far, so there is nothing to compare against yet.

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)Performance: 24.86 GFLOPS#33 of 80Performance/Watt: 2.54 GFLOPS/W#24 of 74

Only this board has been tested so far, so there is nothing to compare against yet.

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)CPU Score: 2,093#37 of 96

Only this board has been tested so far, so there is nothing to compare against yet.

MAME: Street Fighter II: The World Warrior

Higher Speed is Better

Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)Emulation Speed: 871.6%#10 of 30

Only this board has been tested so far, so there is nothing to compare against yet.

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

TinyMemBench

Higher Bandwidth is Better

memcpy
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)5,418.8 MB/s 20% slower #21 of 65
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)6,768.5 MB/s #14 of 65
memset
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)8,503 MB/s #25 of 65
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)8,528.4 MB/s #23 of 65

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)RAM Score: 1,003#34 of 87

Only this board has been tested so far, so there is nothing to compare against yet.

AI & LLM Performance

Large Language Model inference performance

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)Tokens/sec: 8.15 tok/s#27 of 66Tokens/Watt: 1.31 tok/W#2 of 64Tokens/Dollar: 0.16 tok/$#2 of 59

Only this board has been tested so far, so there is nothing to compare against yet.

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 Cubie A7Z (1GB)8.3 MB/s
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)8.1 MB/s 2% slower
4K Random Write
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)15.1 MB/s
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)14.4 MB/s 5% slower

Media & Video

Jellyfin transcoding and FFmpeg video decode and convert speed

Jellyfin Transcoding

Simultaneous real-time streams, more is better

Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)1080p HEVC → 720p: 1#7 of 13

Only this board has been tested so far, so there is nothing to compare against yet.

2 more scenarios and the CPU and hardware stream counts are in the benchmark table · every board ranked

Video Decoding

Software decoding on the CPU, higher fps is better

Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)HEVC 1080p: 101.24 fps#6 of 21AV1 4K: 30.88 fps#8 of 19

Only this board has been tested so far, so there is nothing to compare against yet.

8 more workloads and the hardware decode speeds are in the benchmark table · every board ranked

Power & Thermal

Power consumption at idle and under various workloads

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Idle Power
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)1.6W #26 of 74
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)1.8W 13% more #30 of 74
Load Power
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)6.2W #63 of 105
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)6.6W 6% more #71 of 105
Ollama Max
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)No Data
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)6W #17 of 64
Linpack Max
Radxa Cubie A7Z (1GB)No Data
Orange Pi Zero 3W (4GB)9.6W #36 of 75

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