Specifications

Full implementation of the ARM architecture v8-A instruction set (both AArch64 and AArch32)

ARM Neon Advanced SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) support for accelerated media and signal processing computation

ARMv8 Cryptography Extensions

VFPv4 floating point unit supporting single and double-precision operations

Hardware virtualization support

TrustZone technology support

Full CoreSight debug solution

One isolated voltage domain to support DVFS

Dual-core Cortex-A72 up to 2.0GHz CPU

Superscalar, variable-length, out-of-order pipeline

L1 cache 48KB Icache and 32KB Dcache for each A72

L2 cache 1024KB for big cluster

Quad-core Cortex-A53 up to 1.5GHz CPU

In-order pipeline with symmetric dual-issue of most instructions

L1 cache 32KB Icache and 32KB Dcache for each A53

L2 cache 512KB for little cluster

Cortex-M0 CPU

Two Cortex-M0 cooperate with the central processors

Architecture: Armv6-M

Thumb/Thumb2 instruction set

32 bit only

ARM Mali-T860MP4 Quad-core GPU

The highest performance GPUs built on Arm Mali’s famous Midgard architecture, the Mali-T860 GPU is designed for complex graphics use cases and provide stunning visuals for UHD content.

Frequency 650MHz

Throughput 1300Mtri/s, 10.4Gpix/s

OpenGL® ES 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2. (Panfrost has initial support of 3.0 beginning 2020/02/27)

Vulkan 1.0, using the Mali binary blob. (Panfrost does not support Vulkan as of 2020/06/24)

OpenCL™ 1.1, 1.2

DirectX® 11 FL11_1

RenderScript™

LPDDR4

800MHz, (limited by RK3399)

Dual memory channels on the CPU, each 32 bits wide

Quad memory channels on the RAM chip, each 16 bits wide, 2 bonded together for each CPU channel

4GB as a single 366 pin mobile RAM chip

64GB eMMC module, can be upgraded to an 128GB eMMC module. (The initial PINE64 community build version shipped with a 128GB eMMC.)

eMMC version 5.1, HS400, 8 bit on RK3399 side

Bootable

SPI

128Mbit / 16MByte

1 bit interface

Bootable, (first boot device, ahead of eMMC & SD card)

U-Boot images can be made to work, but as of 2020/06/24 there is no standardized image available.

USB-C Alt mode DP

Up to 3840x2160 p60, dependant on adapter, (2 lanes verses 4 lanes)

Bootable

Supports SD, SDHC and SDXC cards, up to 512GB tested. SDXC standard says 2TB is the maximum.

Version SD3.0, (MMC 4.5), up to 50MB/s

SD card Application Performance Class 1 (A1), (or better), recommended by some users, for better IOPS

1 x USB 2.0 Type-A Host Port, bootable

1 x USB 3.0 Type-A Host Port, 5Gbps, is not bootable

1 x USB 3.0 Type-C OTG Port, 5Gbps, (includes laptop charging function), is not bootable

Note that high power USB devices may not work reliably on a PBP. Or they may draw enough power to drain the battery even when the PBP is plugged into A.C. One alternative is externally powered USB devices.