Last Updated on April 9, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
| Product | Orange Pi Zero2 | MangoPi MQ Pro | MangoPi MQ-QUAD | Radxa Zero | Raspberry Pi zero 2w | Rasberry 3 |
| Price (USD) | 35 | 35 | 35 | 55 | 105 | used 20 (*1) |
| Price issue | price increased 7x from release price of 15 USD | |||||
| Processor model | H616 | H616 C906 RISC-V processor | H616 4-Core Cortex-A53 ARM CPU | S905Y2 | BCM2710A1 | BCM2837 |
| Processor manufacturer | All Winner | All Winner | All Winner | Amlogic | Broadcom | Broadcom |
| Processor speed (Ghz) | 1.5 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Number of cores | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| Ram (GB) | up to 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 512MB | 1 |
| Software demo | MainSailOS for printers | Armbian demo available | YouTube review available but without OS demo, Debian works best | Linux OS & games demos & Manjaro installation | ||
| Software issues | Software little developed | Video playback has issues & installation of web browers difficult, what about installation of other apps? | missing demo of an OS running on it | No Manjaro demo availalbe, we know only only game emulation demos | Raspberry OS Buster recommended, since Bullseye has issues with video playback | YouTube & games not recommended |
| Hardware issues | none, speed tests often show better performance as Raspberry Pi zero 2w | only one usb2 connector makes it difficult to install keyboard & mouse | ||||
| Armbian | can be installed, link in Armbian forum | can be installed, link in Armbian forum | ||||
| Ubuntu | ||||||
| Fedora | Balena image available, but is is good? | |||||
| for desktop | Office & web browsing | |||||
| for battery powered mobile applications | A big 20 000 mAh akku required to run for 8 hrs but is this an issue for a 20 USD device? |
(*1) Raspberry Pi 3 was not sold on 5. Dez. 2022 for 20 USD on Ricardo Switzerland:
https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/raspberry-pi-3-1219523688/
You can get it eventually for less than 20 USD.