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CPUEmbeddedReleased 2021

Rockchip RK3566

4C/4T · 1.8 GHz

Mainstream quad-core processor in Rockchip's RK35 series, introduced in early 2021 alongside the RK3568 as a successor to the RK3288. It combines Cortex-A55 cores with a Mali-G52 2EE GPU and a 1 TOPS NPU, decodes 4K60 H.265, H.264 and VP9 video and includes an 8-megapixel ISP. It is used in the Pine64 Quartz64 and Radxa ROCK 3C boards and in handhelds such as the Anbernic RG353 series.

General

Manufacturer
Rockchip
Model
Rockchip RK3566
Segment
Embedded
Generation
RK35 Series
Codename
—
Architecture
ARM64
Microarchitecture
4× Cortex-A55 @1.8 GHz
Release date
2021

Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
4 cores / 4 threads
Base clock
—
Boost clock
1.80 GHz
TDP (design W)
—
Unlocked
✕ No
L2 cache
—
L3 cache
—
Technology (nm)
22 nm
22 nm

Platform

Socket
—
2-CPU (multi-socket)
✕ No
Integrated GPU
Mali-G52 2EE MC1
Memory type
DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR3, DDR4, LPDDR4, LPDDR4X (32-bit)
Memory size
—
ECC memory
—
PCIe
—

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
—
NPU
NPU — 1 TOPS

OS support

Notes
Embedded Linux and Android platform. Rockchip supplies Android and Linux SDKs for it and provides no Windows, macOS or ChromeOS support, and Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch Linux publish no official image for it.
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