Battle of the Zeros

My lamp broke. Now my room is de-lighted.
(Great video, thank you!)

Thanks for the objective review, Radxa will improve the software and documentation. Starting with the Radxa Imager tool first.

THANK YOU!!! I've been looking for a head-to-head comparison on these specific boards! Much appreciated! 👍

I am delighted that you focused on usability and support. For us hobbyists, giving a concise overview of an expected user experience...kudos to you! Something I wish board manufacturers understood is that most hobbyists lack the dedication and skill set to make something from a spec-sheet and base SDK.

Delighted! That was a great review. I have selected the OrangePi for my future sUAS (drone) projects. The form factor, OS availability, and amount of RAM are my criteria.

I'm delighted to find a new maker channel with great content!

i was truly delighted to see how unbioaased this was and that you arent afraid to just crap on the pi where it deserves to be crapped on, namely, the performance.

Delighted to see the different kinds of projects that these little SBCs can be used for. Too many projects! No time!

Delighted but I feel I need to watch this over again with a notepad so that I can sort of get my head around all the information that you covered without charts 😉

Got here from the video 'Radxa X2L: Mini PC and a Pi had a BABY!' Nice haircut, very delighted when swapping back to the other video. :)

Orange Pi and Radxa's impressive specs are not enough to merit my purchase. Simply delighted!

delighted to see a comprehensive comparisons of the boards strengths and weaknesses

Delighted to have found your channel,and it was a fair comparison

Delighted. I too was curious about the small small sbc's... I'm glad I chose to use my Pi zero 2 w as my home DNS only.

Delighted to watch this video. Super informative thanks. Rarely is the processing power the most important factor for me - documentation and ease of use for the win.

I was delighted to watch this video as a person new to SBC computing. Since this video is a year old, I wonder if the support for the Radxa has matured further to change its score.

delighted that you were consistent in calling it eemc instead of emmc

delighted to see more sbc content/comparisons

I am very Delighted by the results. That 512megs truly gimps the Zero2W. It also used to lock up when pushed a little too hard. Anyway, good video! 🙂

Setting an entire category on "does it have a camera header?" and "are the GPIOs 100% equal to theirs rival?" it's a wild take. Even those 2 points are true there's more to it like an LCD header for projects or industrial use, that most likely it will be the end purpose of most of those SBCs. The performance test was great showing that even the best CPU won't hold up if the software stinks

The Raspberry pi zero needs to be updated to 2gb ram add a couple bucks to the price and most people would agree with the price increase

Delighted with your comparison of the three small form factor SBC boards. I have the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and I just got the Orange Pi Zero 2W.
The Raspberry Pi has great ease of use and documentation, but average performance. The Orange Pi so far does not have hdmi output, so it is a work in progress.

I asked on the raspberry pi forum about why the current versions of the OS were not listed. I got no answer and my post was removed without explanation. I guess it's not something they want to talk about. You have download the current image from the web site and then can choose it from the Imager.
The other factor to consider is the community that can support the device. Despite problems with the Raspberry Pi forums and the occasional toxicity of the Raspberry Pi Reddits, I think the Raspberry products still win here.
Delighted. :D

I'd be interested in the radxa zero 2 pro. It seems to be a faster spec than the 3.

I agree and am delighted with your grading and that it depends on one’s use case. I used a few Raspberry Pi Zero W’s to ‘smartify’ some UPS’s in my house using NUT. Absolutely minimal performance needed for that… just a usb connector + wifi running headless. I even found a remote iPhone monitoring app. Inexpensive and reliable. 😊

Delighted to watch your comparison.

Delighted to see such a great comparison vid.

Delighted to see the comparison, the Radxa sounds best for my needs. thanks for doing my homework for me.

Delighted to find this new channel great side by side review thank you

Thank You for making this video. It's so elaborate, unbiased and helpful.
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Thanks for this, I bought a pi zero 2w with the intention of running home assistant on it, but with only 512mb of ram, it is difficult to get running, and kind of sucks to use. I think I am going to repurpose it as an octoeverywhere board for the time being rather than returning it. In the meantime, I was looking into the OPi 2w or the Radxa 3w for HA. Since HA Supervised needs Debian, it looks like either will do nicely, which I am DELIGHTED to see.

Delighted to see a good review of these options.

I'm always delighted to watch your videos. I always learn something new and I really enjoy them. Keep up the good work!

I got a couple of these in a drawer because they're cute and i deluded myself into thi king i would use them for something

Thank you. Very delighted indeed about this comparison.

I was so delighted to see a video comparing the boards i have just been researching for a quadruped! RPI has the best SBC base, but their boards are just mediocer now considering the technology availability like in the Nvidia jetson Orin. I really need a form factor like these or even the compute modules (comparison suggestion!?), but almost landed on the Radxa for the SoC alone. Considering how amateur my knowledge is on programming, it looks like RPIZ2W is the safest option.

Delighted, thank you for the great content. I am going for the rpi zero 2w to build a camera doorbell as my 1st project.

Delighted! I figured I would learn the basics and start with the Pi Zero 2 W! Once I Master That, I will move up to the Raspberry Pi 5! I want to learn the in’s & out’s of these SBC’s! IOT (internet of things) is The Future! I didn’t have the luxury of a Stable Learning Environment for Many Years of Exile! Now I’m Back, I am eager to learn how to code and develop cool gadgets and Create something Awesome! 😎 this is Great Stuff! I’m sorting out my Amazon Order right now! I want to master these Raspberry Pi’s!

Delighted to know the differences between the zeros, I was looking to buy one of these for my homelab setup!!

Which is the best choice for light weight Image Processing and ML tasks? Consider the price to performance when recommending.🙂

I was delighted to see a comparison of these 3 boards. I just bought the RPi board but will have a better idea which board to pick if it doesn’t meet my needs.

Excellent video, I was delighted to watch it!

Was delighted to see these three compared

I am delighted to watch this comparison of zero boards. Thank you for this great video.

Delighted to see this comparison.
Radxa boards always have great specs, but there's always something lacking elsewhere.

Very informative, plus I like your format and presentation! Thanks and kudos!! Since I want a amall form SBC with good camera capabilities, I'll stick with the Pi Zero 2 W; Ive already excluded ESP32 Cam.

Delighted. I am just getting into the Raspberry PI but had seen the Orange PI and was wondering if it was a better option for an LLM. That's how I found your channel. Thank you for the info. I might give the Orange a try for the Deepseek R1 project, but I will stick to Raspberry's for everything else. Have a good one.

Delighted I’m just getting into knowing about other options then raspberry pi n small cpu /cp actually been wanted to make something batter then flipper zero lol but ur videos was very informative

This was a pretty good video, very informative!

"Delighted" I liked the scientific approach to the ratings. Thank you!

I'm absolutely delighted to find another interesting RUclipsr covering cool electronics! :)

delighted . I would love more content on radxa and luckfox , and love your videos not to long not to short

I am truly delighted. Currently I am starting my journey with electronics, so I don't have specific plans, but I suppose thet Orange Pi Zero 2W will suits my needs.

Great comparison! It's good to see more Orange Pi zero 2W videos on youtube. By the way, one major difference that puts the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W way back is the RAM memory which is DDR2, besides Orange Pi and Radxa that have DDR4 which is a huge difference in speed that sometimes leaves the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W unusable for some applications. Great video!

Delighted
This was an interesting video as I just bought my first SBC, a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W.

Definitely Delighted! Great review and at the right time for my project. Thanks.

I have tested both Raspberry Pi and Orange Pi for a project where I created a platform to take ECG with a Kivy interface on framebuffer and a 7-inch touch screen. My experience:
Raspberry Pi: Very easy to install everything and get it ready for testing, but it performed very poorly even with many adjustments.
Orange Pi: Very difficult to get everything lightweight. I finally used Armbian for the Orange Pi 3, which is compatible, and everything worked very well, but there's a lack of information.
Delighted

I know it is complicated, but for this kind of SBC's an efficiency category would be nice, giving the fact that they most likely end up battery powered

I know exactly why there are those callouts are there in the orange pi manual. Each one of them represents thousands of customer service calls from new users thinking the password cannot be entered or doesn't match the one given in the manual. Customer service people got very frustrated and requested the addition of those callouts.

Delighted to see a review that didn't stop at the paper specs, as others noted great hardware with poor documentation and support is a paperweight.
One thing I wish more reviews focused on was the low level hardware, to me the real selling point of these sbcs is the ability to directly interface and control hardware in a project. This seems pretty glossed over usually, with a brief mention of a number of gpio (which is cool, but other peripherals and especially niche ones like i2s go unmentioned entirely).

the new sbc from Radxa, the NIO 12L, is also pretty good with dual 4k output, mediatek genio 1200, and 16 gigs of RAM.

I think that's a fair assessment.

delighted to find a new channel!

Thank you for your review of the Zeros SBC, it have been an enlightment for decision on selection of board for tiny small projects, as for the camera related i would also consider Milk-V duo board although it would have a the lowest score for the stated criteria

Delighted. Interesting comparison. I've subbed.

actually the rpizero 2 w supports bookworm and works just fine

When I heard the way you are trying to get people to comment on your video, I was Delighted. Actually Smart though! It works!

Yes, this was delightful. Viewing the spec sheets online can be a bit misleading if you don't have real world examples showing what those specs actually translate to in real life scenarios.

" delighted " that it covered quite a few aspects of each board.

I love different OS's for Raspberry Pi. I have the Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB in the Vilros Keyboard TouchPad Hub Running Berryboot OS's and recently did a 128 GB SD for Windows 11. I use Libreoffice in safe mode and configure Disable Hardware acceleration to get better performance. I just picked the Pi Zero 2W for a SNES MSU-1 Emulator. I picked up two Pico NES systems from Ali E too. I highly recommend the Uperfect touch screen monitor 15.6 ". It's really nice. The Rapoo K2800 keyboard as well for different things. The scroll wheel is a must.

I’m delighted. to have found this work up. Thank You

I was super delighted!

I am delighted to have gotten the orange pi zero 2 w with 4gb ram version. I am going to use it for a handheld cyberdeck!

Thank you, I was wondering about these boards. I was delighted.

This was helpful. I'm delighted that there's competition for the Raspberry Pi, but it looks like it's going to be the Pi Zero 2w for me.

Looking at supported OSes by number of available images is very misleading. You should check out how fast manufacturer abandons support for their boards. For example I have "Orange Pi One" which had Ubuntu and Debian images available in ~2020. And zero updates after that. So while I have few perfectly working hardware boards none of these are usable due to lack of up to date software side (and I don't want to run old, vulnerable OSes).
Raspberry Pi OS (32bit) supports ALL existing raspberry pi boards and is still updated/maintained.

I appreciate that review. In fact, one could say I'm delighted with it. With Zeroish things, I would be interested in performance to power consumption.

Delight(ful)ed video.

I was not de-lighted that you tried to use these boards as desktop systems. Doing so consumes a great deal of their limited compute power. The Orange Pi can be a desktop, ironically, having a GPU for that purpose, but the other two are meant to appeal to the (nearly) headless user. I don't use any Zero cards for displays, other than small (7" or less) touchscreen or e-paper implementations. Most are headless. Zero benchmarks should be run headless e.g., via SSH.

I was delighted and appreciate the time you invested.
I have and OrangePi with 1.5Mb and the expansion board to make embedded development, easier, (Ethernet speeds things up) I had hopes of using the 24 pin pin connector in place of the 40 gpio pins for some embedded apps, but it appears to be connected to an ASIC chip which locks in the pin functions.
One disappointment in the Orangepi is the lack of GPU support in all the linux distributions, maybe it works in android? The vast variety of ready to run Raspberry pi code gives that board a huge advantage for rookies who need to build on to a working code base.

Delighted to see this comparison. I own a Orange Pi 2W and a Radxa Zero 3E(basically the 3W but 1Gbps ethernet instead of WiFi). Can not agree more on the underwhelming state of Radxa's documentation and "Official" OS. Building the Radxa Zero 3E as a PiKVM and the Orange Pi Zero 2W has been a USB OTG Tailscale router for over a year.

I am delighted I used an RPI zero 2 iny recent project. Power consumption was my top prio, btw :)

Delighted! Thanks for a great comparison…

I have used a standard usb webcam on the orange pi with the expansion board. It works just fine and I think its easier to find and mount the webcam to be honest. The orange is definitely the best to use as a desktop computer. Its snappy in every way. I have played with many sbcs but the orange one actually impressed me for how tiny it is and how speedy it is.

Hearing about the Radxa Nio 12L is quite interesting one in terms of the performance and also with the integrated mediatek chipset.

Delighted to see your comparison, thank you.

My first impression is, I am delighted to meet you. I learned a lot from this review; Thank you.

I would have been delighted to see a power consumption comparison while running the cpu benchmark

The 512MB of memory on the Pi02 is the biggest let down for me. RPi say they couldn't do any more but given that Radxa can put 8GB in the same-ish formfactor, I find that hard to believe.

delighted to know the orange pi can be used as a desktop successfully!

This makes me extremely happy that I went with the orange pi, even though it was $30 for a 2gb ram model. I have some really cool plans with these boards.

I am delighted to see some viable alternatives to the semicircle _Rubus_ .
The citrus flavour seems quite enticing, especially with its video capabilities. I would like to see a good audio DAC though for media use. I suppose HDMI is an option for getting it out, or potentially even a DiY SPDIF IF THE GPIOs are fast enough, but I would love the option to get the analog signal directly from the board.

Delighted. thanks for this great explanation.

Delighted! great review!

D-Lite-Ed
40 pin IO - full technical run down - where do I find?

Thanks for the video. Would be nice to compare power draw of those modules, as it might be a crucial point for battery powered applications. Delighted to subscribe to you channel)

Delighted to make a comment. I’d like to see the ease of use for specific use cases. I’m thinking the raxda for an ip kvm due to the mali and emmc drive. Seems like a logical long term choice. I think the addition of emmc over sd means it can be used for a long term robot or appliance. Thoughts?

Is it possible to overclock the O(range)pi ?

Delighted. I think we all use boards differently. I use as headless docker servers, in which case the Orange Pi beats the pants off of the Raspberry Pi. Keep in mind I only have power connected to both boards. The Orange Pi is always snappier, with 4X ram than the RPI. I don't have a Radxa, but I'm sure it would be better. Good comparison!

I'm delighted, thanks for alternatives