Banana Pi BPI-M8 is a credit card-sized SBC powered by an Allwinner A733 octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 SoC that aims to offer an alternative to the Raspberry Pi 5.
The BPI-M8 comes with 4GB LPDDR5, HDMI and MIPI DSI display interfaces, two MIPI CSI camera interfaces, Gigabit Ethernet, on-board WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0, four USB ports, a 16-pin FFC PCIe connector, and the usual 40-pin GPIO header. Two variants are offered: the BPI-M8A with 64GB eMMC flash, and the BPI-M8B with 16MB SPI NOR flash.
SoC – Allwinner A733 CPU Dual-core Arm Cortex-A76 @ up to 2.00 GHz Hexa-core Arm Cortex-A55 @ up to 1.80 GHz Single-core RISC-V E902 real-time core GPU – Imagination Technologies BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.3, and OpenCL 3.0 VPU 4Kp60/8Kp24 H.265/VP9/AVS2 decoding, 4Kp30 H.264 decoding 4Kp30 H.265/H.264 encoding AI accelerator – 3 TOPS NPU Process – 12 nm
CPU Dual-core Arm Cortex-A76 @ up to 2.00 GHz Hexa-core Arm Cortex-A55 @ up to 1.80 GHz Single-core RISC-V E902 real-time core
Dual-core Arm Cortex-A76 @ up to 2.00 GHz
Storage 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB (default), or 128GB eMMC flash MicroSD card slot Optional 16MB SPI flash UFS module socket
8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB (default), or 128GB eMMC flash
Display interfaces HDMI 2.0b up to 4K at 60Hz 4-lane MIPI DSI connector