ODROID-C5 is an affordable, power-efficient, high-performance Single Board Computer that supports Android and Linux platforms.

ODROID-C5 is powered by the Amlogic S905X5M application processor, manufactured in an advanced low-power semiconductor fab, featuring a quad-core Cortex-A55 CPU running at 2.5GHz and a modern Mali G310 GPU running at 0.85GHz.

Compare with the ODROID-C4 which had the previous generation processor S905X3, the computing performance of the ODROID-C5 is about 20-25% faster, the 4GB DRAM interface is significantly improved, the memory bandwidth increases by about 30%, and the new GPU 3D rendering performance is more than doubled.

The eMMC host interface specification also has been changed from HS200 to HS400, resulting in file system access speeds that are more than 50% faster.

Let’s take a look at the power and performance differences between ODROID-C4 and ODROID-C5 at a glance. Although these are somewhat synthetic benchmarks, it should help you estimate the performance differences.

• Power consumption in milliwatt (while running “stress-ng –cpu 4 –cpu-method matrixprod”)

• Drystone-2 (Integer performance)

• Double-Precision Whetstone (Floating-point performance)

• mbw (memory bandwidth)

• 7-Zip (Integer performance + memory bandwidth)

• iozone (eMMC storage performance)

• glmark2 (3D GPU performance) 

Despite the noticeable performance increase, power consumption was reduced by over 25%, making it possible to build a very energy-friendly single board computer that consumes less than 2.5 watts even when the computing tasks are fully loaded.