The Orange Pi 6 Plus – a review and benchmarks

A detailed review of the Orange Pi 6 Plus single-board computer featuring the CIX P1 chip with 12 CPU cores, Mali G720 GPU, dedicated NPU, and dual 5GbE. The reviewer spent months testing the board, diving deep into boot chains, vendor GPU blobs, and AI inference runtimes. While the GPU and NPU stack work and local AI inference is achievable, power consumption and fan noise are higher than expected for the form factor. Compared to Rockchip-based boards, the software experience is more polished, and the reviewer was able to run useful workloads using a custom OS image.