It’s a long time since I’ve had any Orange Pi products but today in the mail arrived a package comprising Orange Pi RV, Orange Pi RV2, a “5.1v5A GAN” USB-C power supply and a small packet which I’m still working on.Ok, sorted, the little package contains a 256G EMMC module.As there is only one, I’ll have to decide which board to fit it to… Ok, that answers that – opening the two boxes I pulled out the RV and RV2 units – RV2 on the left in the photos below – that’s the only unit which will take the 256G EMMC module (2*M.2 M-Key slots).
Both units have WiFi antennae and the RV has 4 USB3 connectors and a single network socket whereas the RV2 has 3 USB3 and 1 USB2 connectors along with twin network sockets.On the underside, both have an SD socket and an M.2 M-Key 2280 PCIe NVME SSD connector.Both have standard HDMI connectors and USB-C for power and of course the usual “Raspberry Pi compatible” pin connector.
Both have standard 3.5mm jack sockets for audio and the RV2 has a couple of “CAM” connectors.This is starting to look good.I never liked the micro HDMI connectors on the Raspberry Raspberry Pi so I’m happy with standard HDMI.
RV – RISC-V processor – RV2 – 8-core RISC AI processor.The RV takes 2/4/8GB of LPDDR4 RAM whereas the RV2 takes 2/4/8GB of LPDDR4X RAM.Where the RV simply states WiFi and Bluetooth, the RV2 mentions BT 5.0 and BLE.
RV2 also supports dual-screen heterodyne displays.RV2 states support for DeepSeek though a I’m not sure why that should be in the spec although the link below mentions support for Ubuntu 24.04 “deeply adapted” to DeepSeek.More on the RV2 web page below.
As always that will depend on how good their Ubuntu support is.Actually I could spend a lot of time expanding on the specs – instead – here’s the RV page and the RV2 page complete with much better photos than mine and the full, in-depth detailed spec.More later once I’ve had a play with available software.
I must say at first glance I’m not seeing Ubuntu on their software section index page…