Video : Review of Mekotronics R58-Mini and R58X-4G
 

Hi all. Here my review of my favorite RK3588 devices. The Mekotronics R58-Mini and the R58X-4G.
https://youtu.be/z27p2btjCjs
Only buy from their site. There are sellers selling for almost double the price.
https://www.mekotronics.com/h-col-104.html
Now it are more development boards for developers.
When the configuration is in the Armbian build script. It will be a perfect board for everyone.

Here all my info.

Mekotronics R58X-4G

Armbian Jammy Gnome kernel 5.10.110-rockchip

Video flow

Intro
Open devices
Go over specs
Show how to install new image
Benchmarks
Termperatures
Transfer rates
remarks
pros/cons
closing

Benchmarks
7z decompression all cores : 16854
7z decompression small core : 1768 (core 0)
7z decompression big core : 2986 (core 1)

NicoD blender benchmark pro : 3m23s
NicoD blender benchmark 4G : 3m28s

Temperatures
R58-mini
Idle : 45C
Maxed out : 81C

R58X-4G
Idle : 41C
Maxed out : 65C

R58X-Pro
Idle : 47C
Maxed out : 80C

Transfer rates
eMMC 64GB read R58X-4G : 272.9 MB/s
eMMC 64GB write R58X-4G : 80-140 MB/s

eMMC 64GB read R58X-Pro/Mini : 325.8 MB/s
eMMC 64GB write R58X-Pro : 280-240 MB/s
eMMC 64GB write R58-Mini write : 320-280 MB/s

4G Samsung 980 NVMe read : 3.1 GB/s
4G Samsung 980 NVMe write : 623.2 MB/s

Pro Samsung 970 QVO USB3 -> SSD read : 395.5 MB/s
Pro Samsung 970 QVO USB3 -> SSD write : 374.9 MB/s

Pro USB-C with hub -> USB3 to SSD read : 391.3 MB/s
Pro USB-C with hub -> USB3 to SSD write : 375.6 MB/s

Mini SATA with ribbon read : 468.8 MB/s
Mini SATA with ribbon write : 521.3 MB/s

Power consumption

Remarks
!!! Core 0 is small, 1 - 4 big and 5 - 7 small | Other RK3588 devices have 0 - 3 small and 4 - 7 big
!!! HDMI ports can be buggy when waking up the device. Then need to replug the connector. The same switching with my HDMI switch. Using Armbian Jammy on R58X-4G
!!! External sound device needs to be selected every boot/reboot. Armbian Jammy R58X-4G

Instructions
Start with Armbian Jammy CLI/server
To install the wayland blob GPU driver
wget https://github.com/numbqq/mali-debs/...0510_arm64.deb
and install it into the system with the command :
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite linux-gpu-mali-wayland_1.0-g610-20220510_arm64.deb

For panfork and VPU
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt install mali-g610-firmware rockchip-multimedia-config libv4l-rkmpp

Install Gnome desktop
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop

And additional packages from multimedia repo : https://forum.radxa.com/t/introducti...tu-jammy/14537
sudo apt install chromium-browser gstreamer1.0-rockchip clapper ffmpeg kodi moonlight-embedded moonlight-qt obs-gstreamer obs-studio

Build Box86/64, install Wine/PPSSPP and build Xonotic
https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming

Pros/Cons
+++ My favorite RK3588 devices by far. Easy to work with. I love the layout and metal case.
+++ 4G has good I/O with fast NVMe + SATA + 2 x USB3(USB3+USB-C)
+++ Armbian progress is going well. Will be in armbian-build to build your own images. Pro it’s new devices will take some time. 10GbE doesn’t work yet.
+++ Has GPU and VPU drivers
— Still in development. Not yet for a novice Linux user.
— Only GbE. The Pro comes with 10GbE but uses the M.2 slot, so it’s a choice in having fast NVMe or 10GbE
— Has to use dirty Rockchip kernel
— No forum or good wiki




Greetings.