ODROID-C5
ODROID-C5
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ODROID-C5 is an affordable, power-efficient, high-performance Single Board Computer that supports Android and Linux platforms.
ODROID-C5 is powered by the Amlogic S905X5M application processor, manufactured in an advanced low-power semiconductor fab, featuring a quad-core Cortex-A55 CPU running at 2.5GHz and a modern Mali G310 GPU running at 0.85GHz.
Compare with the ODROID-C4 which had the previous generation processor S905X3, the computing performance of the ODROID-C5 is about 20-25% faster, the 4GB DRAM interface is significantly improved, the memory bandwidth increases by about 30%, and the new GPU 3D rendering performance is more than doubled.
The eMMC host interface specification also has been changed from HS200 to HS400, resulting in file system access speeds that are more than 50% faster.
Let’s take a look at the power and performance differences between ODROID-C4 and ODROID-C5 at a glance. Although these are somewhat synthetic benchmarks, it should help you estimate the performance differences.
- Power consumption in milliwatt (while running “stress-ng –cpu 4 –cpu-method matrixprod”)
- Drystone-2 (Integer performance)
- Double-Precision Whetstone (Floating-point performance)
- mbw (memory bandwidth)
- 7-Zip (Integer performance + memory bandwidth)
- iozone (eMMC storage performance)
- glmark2 (3D GPU performance)
SPECIFICATIONS
| Form Factor | Board Dimensions: 85mm x 56mm x 22mm
Weight: 42g |
| Processor | Amlogic S905X5M
Quad-Core Cortex-A55 (2.5GHz) ARM G310 V2 GPU (0.85GHz) |
| Memory | DDR4 4GB with 32-bit bus width
Data rate: 3200 MT/s |
| Storage | 1x Micro SD slot (DS/HS mode up to UHS-I SDR104)
1x eMMC socket (HS400) |
| Networking | 1 x GbE port (RJ45, supports 10/100/1000 Mbps)
– LED indicators * Green LED: Flashing by data traffics at 100Mbps connection * Amber LED: Flashing by data traffics at 1000Mbps connection |
| Video output | 1 x HDMI 2.0 (up to 4K@60Hz with HDR, CEC, EDID) |
| Audio | 1 x HDMI digital output
1 x Analog stereo line out |
| External I/O | 4 x USB 2.0 host port
1 x Micro USB port (OTG) 1 x Debug serial console (UART : 921600bps) 1 x 40 pin GPIO header GPIO input/output nominal voltage is 3.1V. The maximum input tolerance is 3.4V. |
| Other features | * System LED Indicators:
– Red (POWER) Solid light when DC power is connected – Blue (ALIVE) Flashing like a heartbeat while Kernel runs. Solid on the u-boot stage. |
| Power | 1 x DC jack: outer (negative) diameter 5.5mm inner (positive) diameter 2.1mm
1 x Alternative(aux) power input from a 2-pin header
DC input voltage range: 7.5V ~ 15.5V (12V/2A power adapter is recommended) – IDLE : ≃ 1W without any kind of peripherals – CPU Stress : ≃ 2.5W (Performance governor) without any kind of peripherals – Power Off : ≃ 0.22W |
Due to SoC design constraints, there’s no USB 3.0 Super-Speed or PCIe bus built into the chip. As a result, all USB ports on the ODROID-C5 only support up to USB 2.0 High-speed devices.
Despite the noticeable performance increase, power consumption was reduced by over 25%, making it possible to build a very energy-friendly single board computer that consumes less than 2.5 watts even when the computing tasks are fully loaded.

| A | CPU (Amlogic S905X5M) | H | 2 x System LED indicators |
| B | DDR4 memory (4GiB) | I | 1 x UART for system console |
| C | 4 x USB 2.0 host ports | J | 1 x IR receiver |
| D | 1 x RJ45 Ethernet port (10/100/1000) | K | 40 x GPIO pins |
| E | 1 x HDMI 2.0 | L, O | Alternative power input 2 pins, Stereo audio output 2 pins |
| F | 1 x Micro USB 2.0 port (OTG) | M | 1 x eMMC module socket |
| G | 1 x DC power jack (Outer diameter : 5.5mm, inner diameter : 2.1mm) | N | 1 x Micro SD slot |
NOTES
- Installer OS: https://dn.odroid.com/S905X5M/ODROID-C5/Installer/
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The C5 SBC has some great hardware specs, but...
Amlogic hasn't yet released to the open source community all of the S7D hardware interfaces that make it possible to mainline the Linux kernel or U-Boot loader. So when you purchase this board, you must accept using only that which HardKernel provides. That limits you to a significantly hacked 5.15 kernel and 2023.01 u-boot. The Ubuntu OS may be satisfactory for many and you have the option of Android and Yocto with the limitations I just mentioned. You can browse linux-meson.com to get a better picture of where things stand. If I would have known this prior to purchase, I would probably buy another M1S, which has most everything mainlined and even HAOS support. For the tinkerers out there, these boards aren't going to someday become less expensive. If you have the funds, snag one of these and put it on the shelf for when the software catches up. When mainline releases finally become available, this C5 board will really shine. Maybe Linux kernel version 8.0...?
I have run this board in a vented plastic enclosure, in a room which gets as hot as 85-87F , running Rust compilation on all four cores for long periods. It didn't seem to break 160F on the SoC, with no heatsink, and no fan, and no throttling!
This unit is great, highly recommend it.
Purchased this SBC for use as a CoreElec box and it works flawlessly -- after a few setup issues. I migrated the setup from an old Odroid-C2, so this was quite an upgrade.
If you don't already have one, I highly recommend purchasing an eMMC reader / writer from ameriDroid (v1, not v2). This allows directly writing the CoreElec image to the eMMC storage from your computer. It should be listed as a recommended accessory, but it's not.
Honestly, this thing runs like a beast fanless as well. Perfect for a HTPC running coreelec