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What do you intend to use it for? I replaced my ryzen box with an OrangePi5 for power consumption reasons. Obviously the performance is not even close but turns out it was enough for Jellyfin, torrenting, pihole, and a Minecraft server.
I'm curious, can it handle transcoding? using the RPi 4 while direct playing works great, but for transcoding not so much... I see the OrangePi5 8GB is currently at 85$ looks like a good deal to me. The MC server would be another plus.
Do you know other alternatives like the OrangePi?
I haven't managed to get the GPU properly working when passed through to a Jellyfin docker container, I think you need to recompile ffmpeg or something. If you can get that working I imagine the G610 would be great for it.
Software transcoding though has been great, I don't need it too often but it's a lot beefier than the Pi4 so I've had no troubles.
I don't know much about other alternatives, but my understanding is they'll mostly be between the performance of the Pi and any RK3588 board like the OrangePi. When you're looking for one, make sure it has an armbian image.
Edit: I managed to get hardware transcoding using docker.io/jjm2473/jellyfin-mpp.