Rockchip
CPUEmbeddedReleased 2022

Rockchip RK3588

8C/8T · 2.4 GHz

Flagship processor of Rockchip's RK35 series and successor to the RK3399 and RK3399Pro, reaching products in 2022. It pairs Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 cores in a DynamIQ cluster with a Mali-G610 MC4 GPU and a triple-core 6 TOPS NPU, decodes video up to 8K60 including AV1, encodes H.264 and H.265 at 8K30, and offers HDMI 2.1 output and HDMI 2.0 input. Boards based on it include the Radxa ROCK 5B, Orange Pi 5 Plus and Turing RK1.

General

Manufacturer
Rockchip
Model
Rockchip RK3588
Segment
Embedded
Generation
RK35 Series
Codename
—
Architecture
ARM64
Microarchitecture
4× Cortex-A76 @2.4 GHz + 4× Cortex-A55 @1.8 GHz
Release date
2022

Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
8 cores / 8 threadsP4+E4
Base clock
—
Boost clock
2.40 GHz
TDP (design W)
—
Unlocked
✕ No
L2 cache
—
L3 cache
—
Technology (nm)
8 nm
Samsung 8 nm LP

Platform

Socket
—
2-CPU (multi-socket)
✕ No
Integrated GPU
Mali-G610 MC4
Memory type
LPDDR4, LPDDR4X, LPDDR5 (64-bit)
Memory size
Up to 32 GB
ECC memory
—
PCIe
PCIe 3.0, PCIe 2.1

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
—
NPU
NPU — 6 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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