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Rockchip RK3688

12C/12T

Planned flagship of Rockchip's RK36 series and the successor to the RK3588, first previewed in October 2024 and shown with updated preliminary specifications at the Rockchip Developer Conference in 2025. The plan combines eight Cortex-A730 and four Cortex-A530 Armv9.3 cores with an Arm GPU rated above 2 TFLOPS and a 32 TOPS RKNN-P3 NPU, LPDDR6 memory bandwidth of up to 200 GB/s, UFS 4.0 storage, 16K30 video decoding and 8K60 encoding. Rockchip has not announced a release date.

General

Manufacturer: Rockchip
Model: Rockchip RK3688
Segment: Embedded
Generation: RK36 Series
Codename: —
Architecture: ARM64
Microarchitecture: 8× Cortex-A730 + 4× Cortex-A530 (Armv9.3)
Release date: —
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Cores & clocks

Cores / threads: 12 cores / 12 threadsP8+E4
Base clock: —
Boost clock: —
TDP (design W): —
Unlocked: ✕ No
L2 cache: —
L3 cache: —
Technology (nm): 4-5 nm (preliminary)

Platform

Socket: —
2-CPU (multi-socket): ✕ No
Integrated GPU: Arm Magni GPU (over 2 TFLOPS)
Memory type: LPDDR5, LPDDR5X, LPDDR6
Memory size: —
ECC memory: —
PCIe: —

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions: —
NPU: NPU — 32 TOPS

OS support

Notes: Announced embedded processor. No Windows, macOS or ChromeOS support has been announced, and Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch Linux publish no official image for it.

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