[easygenes]

As a point of comparison, the Radxa Orion O6 shipped a year ago as a 12 core ARMv9 board on same form factor and TDP, for $100 less, with 5x the single core performance (and including a competent iGPU, NPU and VPU). These are very much developer/tinkerer only boards as is.

[mkesper]

But it's not really a good board, sadly:

https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/62#issueco...

https://github.com/System64fumo/linux/blob/main/hardware/dev...

[easygenes]

It is actually a very good board, and now has a fully supported platform on mainline. Those are very out of date. https://github.com/Sky1-Linux/

[fc417fc802]

It appears to cost about twice as much as the Titan these days. Not sure if that's RAM, tariffs, or something else.

[easygenes]

You can still get the 32GB variant direct from Radxa off AliExpress for about $412 USD. Much more than launch costs (probably due to cost of ram), but that's actually still cheaper than the Milk-V Titan. The Titan ships with empty RAM slots, and you'd wind up paying another ~$200 to get 2x16GB of DDR4, which is slower than the soldered on LPDDR5 on the Orion.

If you don't need the full PCIe slot, there's also smaller SBC boards (either exactly micro-ITX or similar footprint) using the same SoC: The OrangePi 6 Plus and Radxa O6N. The OPi is available readily for $260 with 32GB LPDDR5, though admittedly the RAM is lower spec than what ships on the Orion O6.

These are my favorite sub $500 SBCs available today. Great Linux support and you need to move up to something like the LattePanda Sigma at over $600 to get something outclassing them in a similar form-factor, but then there's no option for directly slotting a full-size GPU either.