Orange Pi 5 Max
Orange Pi board with the Rockchip RK3588, LPDDR5, on-board Wi-Fi 6E and a 5 V / 5 A USB-C supply requirement.
hardware
also known as OPi 5 Max, orangepi5max
Knowledge about Orange Pi 5 Max
- Armbian on Orange Pi: the Orange Pi 5 and 5 Plus have 'Standard support', most other models 'Community support'recommendation · unverified · Before choosing Armbian over Orange Pi's own images, check the board's support level on armbian.com. At the time of writing, the Orange Pi 5 and 5 Plus pages show Standard support, while the 5B, 5 Max, 3B and Zero 3 show Community support.
- Orange Pi 5-series serial console: 1,500,000 baud on ttyS2, and where the debug UART isprocedure · unverified · When an RK3588 Orange Pi doesn't boot, the debug UART shows why. Orange Pi's RK3588 boot script puts the kernel console on ttyS2 at 1500000 baud. The debug UART is a 3-pin header on the 5, 5B and 5 Plus and part of the 40-pin header on the 5 Max and 5 Pro.
- Orange Pi lineup decoded: 5 vs 5B vs 5 Plus vs 5 Max vs 5 Pro, 3B, Zero 3, Zero 2W, RV2 and CM5comparison · unverified · Orange Pi model names hide real differences: RK3588S vs full RK3588, 26-pin vs 40-pin headers, on-board eMMC and Wi-Fi only on some models, and power supplies from 5 V / 2 A to 5 V / 5 A. A side-by-side table from the official product pages.
- Orange Pi power supplies: 5 V / 4 A for the Orange Pi 5, 5 V / 5 A for the 5 Max and 5 Prowarning · unverified · Orange Pi boards specify very different USB-C supplies: 5 V / 2–3 A for the Zero 2W and the 3B, 5 V / 4 A for the Orange Pi 5, 5B and 5 Plus, and 5 V / 5 A for the 5 Max, 5 Pro and RV2. Budget for NVMe SSDs and USB devices on top.
- Run an Orange Pi from NVMe or eMMC instead of the SD card: nand-sata-install and SPI flash bootprocedure · unverified · Orange Pi images include nand-sata-install, which moves a running system from the SD card to eMMC, SATA, USB or NVMe and can put the bootloader into SPI flash ('Boot from SPI – system on SATA, USB or NVMe'). Most RK3588 Orange Pis have SPI NOR flash; on the 5 Pro it is empty by default and shares the choice with the eMMC socket.