Banana Pi has unveiled a more compact model of their Amlogic S905X3 based single board computer equipped with a quad -A55 Amlogic S905X3, 2GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, and BT connectivity, HDMI video output, 40-pin GPIO, and two USB 3.0 ports — the BPI-M2 Pro SBC.
The new BPI-M2 Pro is second in line of a bigger but similar open-spec Banana Pi BPI-M5 SBC that closely follows the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B form factor. The BPI-M2 Pro shares almost the same specifications as the BPI-M5 except for some slight differences which I would just like to share briefly.
The BPI-M5 board is also an Amlogic-based board with 4x, up to 2GHz Cortex-A55 cores, a Mali-G31 GPU running @up to 650Mhz, 16GB to 64GB eMMC, a microSD slot and 1GbE LAN. The BPI-M5 has double the RAM of the BPI-M2 Pro at 2GB as well as up to 4x USB 3.0 ports instead of the 2x found in the BPI-M2 Pro. There’s also an audio jack in the BPI-M5 that is not available with the BPI-M2 Pro.
The BPI-M2 Pro on the other hand adds a WiFi/BT module and uses a DC Jack for power supply input instead of the Type-C port.
The new SBC also follows in a line of other BPI-M2 boards like the Banana Pi BPI-M2 Berry and the Banana Pi BPI-M2+ which is of the same size as the BPI-M2 Pro.
Read more: MEET BPI-M2 PRO SBC — A MORE COMPACT AMLOGIC S905X3 SBC FROM BANANA PI
