We’ve seen many boards using this same SoC in the past, and they generally follow the same set of design ideas. Even with minor design flaws, the NanoPi R6S is a great system based on the modern and powerful RK3588S chip, offering some of the best performance currently available in the SBC world thanks to it. There are some other minute differences, but for SBCs, the most notable drawback is the lack of PCIe 3.

Our review unit, sent to us by FriendlyElec, the manufacturer, came with this accessory, so we’re reviewing the set as a whole. Hopefully, this only happens with my sample or the issue could have happened during the teardown, but it’s still something a few users might do, for example, to install an RTC battery. Undoing these lets us extract the board and take a glance at its upper side which houses the heart of the system: the RK3588S SoC.

Prior to writing and translating for Notebookcheck, I worked for various companies including Apple and Neowin.

I am unsure if I will ever need that NVME slot, since I can't think of any use for it (maybe you have suggestions? We recommend using a machine with 32GB of RAM and a large-capacity, high-speed SSD, and we do not recommend using virtual machines. I have recently purchased, r5c , and I will say that it is the best option of existing, it is super compact, in addition, if you choose r6c/s you are guaranteed to overheat, it is not much written about it, but it has too powerful processor, for this purpose there is a connector for additional cooling, if it is properly configured it will not be silent, (it has four additional cores cortex a76 which will overheat it, also from the disadvantages of 1 port 2. Since EDK2 UEFI firmware does not support extlinux an ISO aarch64 image needs to be used to successfully boot NixOS.Ubuntu, Debian, Android, Android TV, FriendlyCore and FriendlyWRT, the official OSs, all work right out-of-the-box. The RK3588S is RK3588’s lesser sibling, offering the same CPU and GPU setup, with four Cortex-A76 and four Cortex-A55 cores running at 2. Of course, if you only get an R5C you won't be able to spend anywhere close to that much money on a router or your electricity bill . Tailored Solutions: Friendly Elec provides customization options and dedicated support to tailor the NanoPC-T6 precisely to your industrial needs.