ODROID-C5 is an affordable, power-efficient, high-performance Single Board Computer that supports Android and Linux platforms. ODROID-C5 is powered by the Amlogic S905X5M application processor, manufactured in an advanced low-power semiconductor fab, featuring a quad-core Cortex-A55 CPU running at 2.5GHz and a modern Mali G310 GPU running at 0.85GHz. Compare with the ODROID-C4 which had the previous generation processor S905X3, the computing performance of the ODROID-C5 is about 20-25% faster, the 4GB DRAM interface is significantly improved, the memory bandwidth increases by about 30%, and the new GPU 3D rendering performance is more than doubled. The eMMC host interface specification also has been changed from HS200 to HS400, resulting in file system access speeds that are more than 50% faster. Let’s take a look at the power and performance differences between ODROID-C4 and ODROID-C5 at a glance. Although these are somewhat synthetic benchmarks, it should help you estimate the performance differences. Power consumption in milliwatt (while running “stress-ng –cpu 4 –cpu-method matrixprod”) Drystone-2 (Integer performance) Double-Precision Whetstone (Floating-point performance) mbw (memory bandwidth) 7-Zip (Integer performance + memory bandwidth) iozone (eMMC storage performance) glmark2 (3D GPU performance) SPECIFICATIONS Form Factor Board Dimensions: 85mm x 56mm x 22mm Weight: 42g Processor Amlogic S905X5M Quad-Core Cortex-A55 (2.5GHz) ARM G310 V2 GPU (0.85GHz) Memory DDR4 4GB with 32-bit bus width Data rate: 3200 MT/s Storage 1x Micro SD slot (DS/HS mode up to UHS-I SDR104) 1x eMMC socket (HS400) Networking 1 x GbE port (RJ45, supports 10/100/1000 Mbps) – LED indicators * Green LED: Flashing by data traffics at 100Mbps connection * Amber LED: Flashing by data traffics at 1000Mbps connection Video output 1 x HDMI 2.0 (up to 4K@60Hz with HDR, CEC, EDID) Audio 1 x HDMI digital output 1 x Analog stereo line out External I/O 4 x USB 2.0 host port 1 x Micro USB port (OTG) 1 x Debug serial console (UART : 921600bps) 1 x 40 pin GPIO header GPIO input/output nominal voltage is 3.1V. The maximum input tolerance is 3.4V. Other features * System LED Indicators: – Red (POWER) Solid light when DC power is connected – Blue (ALIVE) Flashing like a heartbeat while Kernel runs. Solid on the u-boot stage. Power 1 x DC jack: outer (negative) diameter 5.5mm inner (positive) diameter 2.1mm 1 x Alternative(aux) power input from a 2-pin header DC input voltage range: 7.5V ~ 15.5V (12V/2A power adapter is recommended) – IDLE : ≃ 1W without any kind of peripherals – CPU Stress : ≃ 2.5W (Performance governor) without any kind of peripherals – Power Off : ≃ 0.22W Due to SoC design constraints, there’s no USB 3.0 Super-Speed or PCIe bus built into the chip. As a result, all USB ports on the ODROID-C5 only support up to USB 2.0 High-speed devices. Despite the noticeable performance increase, power consumption was reduced by over 25%, making it possible to build a very energy-friendly single board computer that consumes less than 2.5 watts even when the computing tasks are fully loaded. A CPU (Amlogic S905X5M) H 2 x System LED indicators B DDR4 memory (4GiB) I 1 x UART for system console C 4 x USB 2.0 host ports J 1 x IR receiver D 1 x RJ45 Ethernet port (10/100/1000) K 40 x GPIO pins E 1 x HDMI 2.0 L, O Alternative power input 2 pins, Stereo audio output 2 pins F 1 x Micro USB 2.0 port (OTG) M 1 x eMMC module socket G 1 x DC power jack (Outer diameter : 5.5mm, inner diameter : 2.1mm) N 1 x Micro SD slot NOTES Installer OS: https://dn.odroid.com/S905X5M/ODROID-C5/Installer/
