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What do you want exactly? What's your budget? The Orange Pi and Rock PI are based on the RK3588 chip which offers 8 cores, at least 4 of which are A-72. Solid Run do a mini server based on a 16 core A-72 NXP chip which is Arm System ready. There's servers out there with the Thunder X2 chip which is impressive. I suppose king of the Pack still is Ampere computing's servers. They do an 80 core A-76 CPU, @3.3 GHz & I/O to match. They also do a twin CPU server = 160cores. Impressive things made with 7nm wafer fab The cpu is 3.0GHz or 3.3GHz turbo but their proprietary water cooler keeps it in turbo continually. But their top of the range job sets you back $20K last time I checked.
Not to be overlooked are the M1-M3 Macbooks which offer up to 14 cores including some really decent X1(?) cores and crazy turbo speeds. The M1 had a turbo speed of 4.5 GHz, I don't know about later models. Wafer fab is 5nm for the M1-M2, & 3nm for the M3. Of course, you'll have to buy the rest of the Macbook with it.
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Well, unless software is written specifically to use all available cores of a multi core system, (which most isn't), & bearing in mind price, probably the Raspberry Pi5....
Pricing around less than 200 dollars, ideally 50 dollars
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- Rock Pi 4 Model C: NVMe and eMMC in a Raspberry Pi Layout
Rock Pi 4C Specifications
SoC - Rockchip RK3399 big.LITTLE hexa-core processor with; CPU: 2x Arm Cortex-A72 @ up to 1.8 GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 @ up to 1.4 GHz
- Rock Pi 4 Plus Models
Rock Pi 4 Plus single-board computer with a new OP1 processor and Twister OS
2x Arm Cortex-A72 @ upto 2.0 GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 @ upto 1.4 GHz with a Mali-T864 GPU
For around $200, you'll get the Orange Pi. The board is cheaper, but you need extras (as with them all). Look up the specs & options. They even have an M2 option, but only PCIE-2 speeds. For sure, slarm64 supports them with a disk image, making install easy-peasy. The guy uses them himself for compiling.
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A super machine. However, is there a plastic boxing ???
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Hardware
The SoC and RAM packages
General
RK3588 SoC (8 cores: 4x A76 at 2.4 GHz + 4x A55 at 1.8 GHz)
Mali G610MC4 GPU (4x Valhalla cores)
16 GB of LPDDR4X (SK hynix)
64 GB eMMC (Foresee, soldered)
1x USB-C (with video-alt mode)
1x USB-C (FTDI debug UART, FT232RL)
1x USB 3.0
2x USB 2.0
1x HDMI in
2x HDMI out
1x PCIe 3.0 slot (open-ended)
1x SD / TF card slot
2x SATA ports
2x Gigabit Ethernet (1x from SoC, 1x on PCIe, RTL8211F, RTL8111HS)
1x Wi-Fi & Bluetooth module (AMPAK Tech AP6275PR3)
2x SMA Antenna
2x MIPI DPHY
1x MIPI D/C PHY
1x MIPI CSI
1x PWM Fan header (four pins)
1x RTC battery socket (CR1220, 3 V, see QuartzPro64 board schematics PDF, page 21)
1x MIC (soldered)
1x audio output 3.5 mm jack
DC 12 V power input
Cooler
The board comes with two cooler mounts, a 4-hole mount that appears to be spaced 55x55mm apart, and the ~60mm diagonal "northbridge heatsink" mount the ROCKPro64 and Quartz64 Model A uses.
RK3588 is slightly (<1mm?) taller than the DRAM chips, use a thick enough thermal pad instead of thermal compound.
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