ODroid XU4 with fan
ODroid XU4
- Exynos5 Octa
- 8 cores
- 2Go Ram
- with fan
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12/04/2018: since today, the XU4 board is sold WITHOUT the 5V 4A recommanded PSU.
A ultra-powerful nano computer working under Linux or Android
The ODroid-XU4 is proprelled with the powerful ARM® big.LITTLE™ technology and HMP solution (Heterogeneous Multi-Processing).
ODROID-XU4 is a new generation of IT peripheral offering more power, an hardware with higher efficiency-power yield and a very compact form-factor.
Thanks to open-source software, the board can execute several version of Linux operating system, including the an Ubuntu version (16.04), Android 4.4 KitKat, Android 5.0 Lollipop, Android 7.1 Nougat.
As it also support the technologies eMMC 5.0, USB 3.0 & Gigabit Ethernet, the ODROID-XU4 board raise the speed transfert to an impressive rate level.
Those hardware improvements offers a great user experience, higher treatment speed, and more especially a better boot time, an improved navigation flow while using internet browser, better network performance et even great time while playing 3D games.
The XU4 use a fan with a dynamic control fan assembled on the heatsink. This fan runs when the CPU charge is higher causing the temperature to raise and reach a threshold. As the fan is running, it also produce some sound. Please, note that fan can change from one batch to another.
The XU4 use a very powerful processor wich need an appropriate power supply. Hardkernel strongly recommend a quality 5V DC 4Amp power supply. The PSU is available here on the shop.
A bad quality PSU may cause unstable working or even damage your XU4.
The XU4 is fully comptable with the XU3 (from software point og view)!
The XU4 is more compact and more scalable than a XU3.
Main features:
- Processor: 8 cores! Samsung Exynos5422 ARM® Cortex™-A15 4 cores @ 2.0GHz + Cortex™-A7 4 cores @ 1.4GHz. Plus d'info sur le site de Samsung.
- 3D Accelerator: Mali™-T628 MP6 OpenGL ES 3.0 / 2.0 / 1.1 et OpenCL 1.1 "Full profile"
- Memory: 2Gbyte LPDDR3 RAM PoP stacked (750Mhz, 12GB/s memory bandwidth , 2x bus 32 bit)
- Audio: digital audio output via HDMI. Optical SPDIF output (optional, via an USB module)
- Display: HDMI 1.4a with Type A connector
- Storage (Options for storing data):
- eMMC module connector: eMMC 5.0 flash storage (up ti 64GByte)
- microSD card connector (up to 64GByte)
- USB 3.0 Host: standard SuperSpeed USB type A, 2 port connector
- USB 2.0 Host: standard HighSpeed USB type A, 1 port connector
- Network: Ethernet 10/100/1000Mbps (also Gigabit), RJ-45 connector, Auto-MDIX support. Realtek RTL8153 controler.
- Optional - WiFi: you can add WiFi support by adding an external WiFi module - USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n 1T1R WLAN with antenna.
- Optional - Hard drive, wire and HDD/SSD on the board with external USB 3.0 SuperSpeed to Serial ATA3 (sata3) for 2.5"/3.5" hard-drive and storage on SSD
- Power Supply: 5V 4 Amps!
- Operating systems:
- Ubuntu 16.04 + OpenGL ES + OpenCL on Kernel LTS 4.14
- Android 4.4.2 with kernel LTS 3.10
- Android 5.1 & 7.1 Nougat availables as development plateform (community driven OS development).
- Source code available on Odroid's GitHub.
- Size: 82 x 58 x 22 mm (approximatively, including the ventilator)
- Weight: 60 grammes (with the ventilator)
For the Makers
- UART, serial data - take care to use a compatible USB-Serial module, logique 1.8 Volts.
- 30 GPIO pins : GPIO / IRQ / SPI / ADC
- 12 GPIO pins : GPIO / I2S / I2C
- Wiring-Pi wiring (please, see the Odroid wiki)
- Logic @ 1.8 Volts, take care! you can use the shifter-shield.
Content
- ODROID-XU4 board
- Actif fan (already assembled on the heatsink)
A 5V 4Amp power supply and a microSD card or eMMC module (initialized with an operating system) is required to boot up your ODroid XU4 board.
We do recommend to use a eMMC module to store the operating system.
Keep high performances on your XU4
We strongly recommend to use an eMMC module to store the operating system. The performances of this media can reach 140 MB/s while reading (see this comparaison sheet), a throughput quite higher than SD card.
The higher throughput and better access time would improves the boot time, application startup, multitasking, 3D games and offers a cloud access more efficient. So great time and a better user experience.
ODroid XU4 vs Raspberry-Pi
The Pi-2 & Pi-3 are so popular than HardKernel create a comparative chart of Raspberry-Pi et ODroid.
Keep in mind that Rapsberry-Pi and ODroid doesn't share the same technology so comparing them is not necessarily suitable. It is like comparing a super plane and a wonderful car... they are not used on the same "territory".
By the way, the comparison chart is available here.
Videos
Here some interesting videos about the ODroid-XU4... and previous version (the XU3).
- ODroid-XU4 Hardware introduction (youtube, english)
- Ubuntu 15.04 with MATE desktop (youtube, english)
- Web Browsing and XMBC on Linux (youtube, english)
- Robot OS: OpenNI and OpenCV (youtube, english)
- Minecraft on 42" tablet (youtube, english)
- Android-XU3 : Android portrait mode (youtube, english)
- MotionEye OS (oCam + oDroid XU4) (youtube, english)
- ARUCO + ogre3D (oCam + oDroid XU4) (youtube, english)
Tutorials
- Performance comparison about CPU/RAM, SD/eMMC, USB3, Ethernet, etc (MChobby, French)
- XU4's FAQ (MCHobby, French)
- User manual (94 pages, ODroid, English)
- Technical details (ODroid, Anglais)
- ODroid-XU4 wiki (ODroid, English)
- XU4 schematic (ODroid)
- Control sounds emiting by the fan (Forums ODroid, English)
Status LEDs
The ODroid-XU4 does have several LEDs that can be used to know more about the board status.
- RED led: the board is powered.
- BLUE led: operating system status
- RJ45 - GREEN led : flashing while having a 100 Mbps connection.
- RJ45 - YELLOW led : flashing while having a 1000 Mbps connection.