ALL ABOUT BANANA PI M6 SBC

Banana Pi M6 is a powerful single board computer (SBC) was introduced by Sinovoip in 2022. The Banana Pi M6 is one of the of the most powerful SBCs currently present in the market with very reasonable price. The price to performance ratio of the chip is really good. However, this chip needs some development on software side. The chip is powered by Synaptics VS680 chip. The SoC VS680 combines CPU, NPU and GPU all into the single chip, provides good performance with efficient power usage. The other information about the SBC can be found here.

Here are some specifications of the SBC,

1. CPU : Synaptics VideoSmart VS680 quad-core Cortex-A73 (2.1GHz) and One Cortex-M3 processor.

2. GPU : Imagination GE9920

3. NPU : AI up to 6 .75Tops

4. RAM : 4GB LPDDR4

5. Internal Storage : 16gb-64gb eMMC flash depends upon variant.

6. Extra Storage Slots : M.2 Key E(PCIe + MIPI CSI) + MicroSD slot with support for up to 256GB expansion

7. USB Ports : 4 USB 3.0

8. Network : 10/100/1000 Mbit/s Ethernet ,Optional WiFi USB dongle

9. Video / Audio : 1 x HDMI 2.1 (up to 4K@60Hz with HDR, CEC, EDID) out, and 1 HDMI in Port

10. Display : MIPI DSI interface

11. GPIO : 40 Pin Header : GPIO (x28) and Power (+5V, +3.3V and GND). GPIO pins can be used for UART, I2C, SPI or PWM

12. Power Required : 5 volt @3A TYPE C

13. Others : Dimensions: 92x60mm, Weight : 48g, Power Status and Activity status LED.

The chip currently supports 2 Platforms namely Linux and Android. However, official images are yet to be released by the company. Once updated the official images will be available here & here. The development is currently going on. The powerful chip used in BPI M6 also listed on top in Artificial Intelligence (AI) benchmarking. Which can be checked here.

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