Banana Pi BPI-M5 aims to take a slice of the Raspberry Pi 4

An interesting new player in the Single Board Computers (SBC) scene is the Banana Pi BPI-M5, offering the power of the Raspberry Pi 4 with onboard eMMC flash storage. The Banana Pi BPI-M5 has at its heart an Amlogic S905X3 System on Chip which features an ARM Cortex-A55 processor running at 2GHz and a Mali-G31 MP2 GPU running at 650MHz. RAM comes in the form of a single chip of 4GB of LPDDR4, so is mid-range when compared to the three memory options for the Raspberry Pi 4. What is most welcome is 16GB of eMMC flash storage soldered to the board, with options available for models featuring up to 64GB of eMMC.