[orion7]

For those who don't need quite that much power I recently added an Orange Pi 5 to my own homelab, the RK3588 SoC packs an impressive punch for what it is

[tills13]

Similarly, a Beelink mini runs one of my Proxmox nodes and it's excellent. Literally sips power, too. I think I measured under 30w while under load. I mainly use it for my Plex instance given the N100 with QuickSync.

[nine_k]

Does it run a mainline Linux kernel?

[pta2002]

As of this past year (6.15+), most stuff you’d need for a regular desktop is upstreamed. Collabora has been working pretty hard on getting the chip mainlined, so it’s on a very good place compared to something like the Pi 5, which is not at all what the experience used to be in the past!

[ninth_ant]

And despite their broadly similar performance, the RK3588s have significantly better power draw.

However I’m not sure of any of the rk3588 vendors that support both UEFI and have a full-size PCIe slot like the MS-R1 has.

[JustFinishedBSG]

https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588

[adrian_b]

RK3588 has many times better power consumption, but their performance is not at all similar.

8 Cortex-A720 vs. 4 Cortex-A76 means at least 3 times better performance for optimized programs.

Also for I/O throughput, this computer has far more fast PCIe lanes than RK3588, allowing many fast peripherals.