Battle of the Zeros 

Thanks for the objective review, Radxa will improve the software and documentation. Starting with the Radxa Imager tool first.

My lamp broke. Now my room is de-lighted. (Great video, thank you!)

THANK YOU!!! I've been looking for a head-to-head comparison on these specific boards! Much appreciated! 👍

delighted to see more sbc content/comparisons

Delighted to see a good review of these options.

I'm delighted to find a new maker channel with great content!

Thank you, I was wondering about these boards. I was delighted.

I’m delighted. to have found this work up. Thank You

Delighted to have found your channel,and it was a fair comparison

delighted to find a new channel!

Delighted to see the comparison, the Radxa sounds best for my needs. thanks for doing my homework for me.

Delighted but I feel I need to watch this over again with a notepad so that I can sort of get my head around all the information that you covered without charts 😉

Excellent video, I was delighted to watch it!

Delighted to see the different kinds of projects that these little SBCs can be used for. Too many projects! No time!

delighted to see a comprehensive comparisons of the boards strengths and weaknesses

Delighted to watch this video. Super informative thanks. Rarely is the processing power the most important factor for me - documentation and ease of use for the win.

Was delighted to see these three compared

I asked on the raspberry pi forum about why the current versions of the OS were not listed. I got no answer and my post was removed without explanation. I guess it's not something they want to talk about. You have download the current image from the web site and then can choose it from the Imager. The other factor to consider is the community that can support the device. Despite problems with the Raspberry Pi forums and the occasional toxicity of the Raspberry Pi Reddits, I think the Raspberry products still win here. Delighted. :D

Thank You for making this video. It's so elaborate, unbiased and helpful. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Just found your channel and wow, what a fantastic job. Followed!🎉 (Delighted)

I'm absolutely delighted to find another interesting RU-vidr covering cool electronics! :)

i was truly delighted to see how unbioaased this was and that you arent afraid to just crap on the pi where it deserves to be crapped on, namely, the performance.

Delighted to discover your channel

Delighted to see your comparison, thank you.

delighted that you were consistent in calling it eemc instead of emmc

Got here from the video 'Radxa X2L: Mini PC and a Pi had a BABY!' Nice haircut, very delighted when swapping back to the other video. :)

Delighted. I too was curious about the small small sbc's... I'm glad I chose to use my Pi zero 2 w as my home DNS only.

My first impression is, I am delighted to meet you. I learned a lot from this review; Thank you.

Great video, completely delighted.

Delighted! That was a great review. I have selected the OrangePi for my future sUAS (drone) projects. The form factor, OS availability, and amount of RAM are my criteria.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *📦 Introduction and Overview* - Introduction to the comparison of three small factor SBCs: Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, Radxa Zero 3W, and Orange Pi Zero 2W. - Criteria for comparison include ease of use, documentation, performance, and a bonus category for accessories. 02:13 *📝 Specifications Overview* - Detailed specifications of Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, including its price. - Introduction to Radxa Zero 3W's specs and price, followed by the specifications and pricing of the Orange Pi Zero 2W. 06:09 *🖥️ Ease of Use* - Evaluation of ease of use for Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, highlighting the ease of setup and exceptional documentation. - Analysis of Orange Pi Zero 2W's setup process, OS availability, and documentation, noting some drawbacks. - Radxa Zero 3W's ease of use discussion, mentioning its OS options, setup simplicity, but challenging documentation. 13:18 *💻 Performance and Usability* - Performance comparison based on a CPU benchmark, with Radxa Zero 3W leading, followed by Orange Pi and Raspberry Pi. - Desktop experience comparison, highlighting the superior performance of Orange Pi Zero 2W. 15:29 *🤖 Use Cases and Accessories* - Discussion of potential use cases for small factor SBCs and the importance of camera connectors for projects involving vision. - Evaluation of accessory compatibility and support, with a focus on camera module support and ecosystem. 18:58 *🏆 Conclusion and Final Scores* - Summary of scores for each board across all categories, declaring Raspberry Pi as the overall winner for its support and ease of use. - Final thoughts on choosing the right board for specific project needs, and invitation for viewer engagement.

This was a pretty good video, very informative!

I am delighted to see videos like these. Very thorough with good scores. I'm considering making a wearable in the style of a pipboy. I was kinda bummed out that the zero 2 only has 512mb ram, so I'm going to do some more research on the Radxa Zero. I didn't even know this existed! Very cool video and Thanks for all the info!

"Delighted" I liked the scientific approach to the ratings. Thank you!

Thank you. Very delighted indeed about this comparison.

Delighted! Thanks for a great comparison…

Delighted to see this comparison. Radxa boards always have great specs, but there's always something lacking elsewhere.

Delighted 👍🏾 I’m just here for the knowledge 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I was delighted to see a comparison of these 3 boards. I just bought the RPi board but will have a better idea which board to pick if it doesn’t meet my needs.

Delighted with your comparison of the three small form factor SBC boards. I have the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and I just got the Orange Pi Zero 2W. The Raspberry Pi has great ease of use and documentation, but average performance. The Orange Pi so far does not have hdmi output, so it is a work in progress.

I agree and am delighted with your grading and that it depends on one’s use case. I used a few Raspberry Pi Zero W’s to ‘smartify’ some UPS’s in my house using NUT. Absolutely minimal performance needed for that… just a usb connector + wifi running headless. I even found a remote iPhone monitoring app. Inexpensive and reliable. 😊

The Raspberry pi zero needs to be updated to 2gb ram add a couple bucks to the price and most people would agree with the price increase

I am truly delighted. Currently I am starting my journey with electronics, so I don't have specific plans, but I suppose thet Orange Pi Zero 2W will suits my needs.

I am very Delighted by the results. That 512megs truly gimps the Zero2W. It also used to lock up when pushed a little too hard. Anyway, good video! 🙂

Thanks for the review. tell me have you heard about the Radxa NIO 12L, which is powered by the Genio processor? it's creating quite a buzz of late.

Very interesting video! Delighted

Delighted - subbed!

I was so delighted to see a video comparing the boards i have just been researching for a quadruped! RPI has the best SBC base, but their boards are just mediocer now considering the technology availability like in the Nvidia jetson Orin. I really need a form factor like these or even the compute modules (comparison suggestion!?), but almost landed on the Radxa for the SoC alone. Considering how amateur my knowledge is on programming, it looks like RPIZ2W is the safest option.

Thanks for this content it definitely leaves me feeling delighted ,your findings are about right in my opinion but I will have to say cameras are kinda an extra I like you to build a remote control car project or something similar all with the different boards then see which one is controlled better , because these types of boards are best for automation ,robotics , or remote control practice it be cool to see which board does a better job at what they are intended for I think this would be fairest test honestly to decide which is best or at least seems more reliable

This was helpful. I'm delighted that there's competition for the Raspberry Pi, but it looks like it's going to be the Pi Zero 2w for me.

Hi Delighted, nice comparative test with simple but efficient criteria easy to remove if somebody doesn't care about a particular test - this kind of test is quite important, because results sometimes bring surprises up. :)

" delighted " that it covered quite a few aspects of each board.

I think that's a fair assessment.

Hearing about the Radxa Nio 12L is quite interesting one in terms of the performance and also with the integrated mediatek chipset.

delighted to know the orange pi can be used as a desktop successfully!

the new sbc from Radxa, the NIO 12L, is also pretty good with dual 4k output, mediatek genio 1200, and 16 gigs of RAM.

I got a couple of these in a drawer because they're cute and i deluded myself into thi king i would use them for something

Delighted to see a review that didn't stop at the paper specs, as others noted great hardware with poor documentation and support is a paperweight. One thing I wish more reviews focused on was the low level hardware, to me the real selling point of these sbcs is the ability to directly interface and control hardware in a project. This seems pretty glossed over usually, with a brief mention of a number of gpio (which is cool, but other peripherals and especially niche ones like i2s go unmentioned entirely).

I appreciate that review. In fact, one could say I'm delighted with it. With Zeroish things, I would be interested in performance to power consumption.

Your video was a delight(ed) to watch. thanks for your efforts I'm still on the fence weather I should get an Orange pi I have 2 of the OG pi zero w's and I find them a bit under powered might be time for an upgrade after hearing about your desktop experience on the Orange pi

I was delighted and appreciate the time you invested. I have and OrangePi with 1.5Mb and the expansion board to make embedded development, easier, (Ethernet speeds things up) I had hopes of using the 24 pin pin connector in place of the 40 gpio pins for some embedded apps, but it appears to be connected to an ASIC chip which locks in the pin functions. One disappointment in the Orangepi is the lack of GPU support in all the linux distributions, maybe it works in android? The vast variety of ready to run Raspberry pi code gives that board a huge advantage for rookies who need to build on to a working code base.

Delighted to see a video done right.

Watch out for the temp when full load!

Thanks for the video. Would be nice to compare power draw of those modules, as it might be a crucial point for battery powered applications. Delighted to subscribe to you channel)

Thanks, I think this was a fair comparison.

Great comparison! It's good to see more Orange Pi zero 2W videos on youtube. By the way, one major difference that puts the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W way back is the RAM memory which is DDR2, besides Orange Pi and Radxa that have DDR4 which is a huge difference in speed that sometimes leaves the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W unusable for some applications. Great video!

actually the rpizero 2 w supports bookworm and works just fine

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Delighted to know if you evaluated the Radxa wi-fi capability? Asking because I got it when it first came out and their drivers for their own images were not working. I had to use Armbian to get its full functionality.

I'd be interested in the radxa zero 2 pro. It seems to be a faster spec than the 3.

Delighted 😁

Delighted!

delighted fine video.

I love the video so far. Just found this channel so that's a sub from me!

Delightedful video.

Delighted. I think we all use boards differently. I use as headless docker servers, in which case the Orange Pi beats the pants off of the Raspberry Pi. Keep in mind I only have power connected to both boards. The Orange Pi is always snappier, with 4X ram than the RPI. I don't have a Radxa, but I'm sure it would be better. Good comparison!

Do you think the results would change any if you used the Orange Pi Zero 3?

Delighted to see this, thank you. I actually (sort of) use pi zeroes as a desktop, though mainly to VNC to a Ubuntu desktop

I would have been delighted to see a power consumption comparison while running the cpu benchmark

I know it is complicated, but for this kind of SBC's an efficiency category would be nice, giving the fact that they most likely end up battery powered

thanks ... watched until the end ..

Looking at supported OSes by number of available images is very misleading. You should check out how fast manufacturer abandons support for their boards. For example I have "Orange Pi One" which had Ubuntu and Debian images available in ~2020. And zero updates after that. So while I have few perfectly working hardware boards none of these are usable due to lack of up to date software side (and I don't want to run old, vulnerable OSes). Raspberry Pi OS (32bit) supports ALL existing raspberry pi boards and is still updated/maintained.

Nothing starts perfect, first RPi came out after a lot of struggles. I'm delighted to see competition for hobbyists. And actual big improvement over the first "orangepi zero" many years ago. That one was disaster when it comes to support and documentation. It was only thanks to open source community and Armbian project it became somewhat usable. On the other hand RPi was almost always losing when it comes to pure processing power. Even now RK3588 based products basically obliterate Pi5, but RPi strength is easy of use, great support and documentation. Big weakness is availability of top products.

I agree with most of what you said. I have both the Raspberry Pi 2w and the Orange Pi 2w. I use mostly usb cameras as I have had some issues with the cameras that use the camera connector. It could be the new camera stack though. I like both though I wish the raspberry Pi zero 2w has more memory selections. There is really no reason for them not to as their competitors do. I certainly would pay a little more for more memory. I really like the Raspberry Pi's sofware support though. No other board has this nor is the software of other companies as easy to use. I use these boards most with 3d printers so I would be installing either Octoprint or klipper. Klipper is available for any Linux computer and is easy to install using the kiauh script. Octoprint though is extremely difficult to install on anything but a Raspberry pi though I did manage to install it on a Orange Pi 3 LTS and should be a similar process for the Orange Pi Zero 2w though it will likely be difficult as it is all done manually. One thing I did not understand when you said the Raspberry Pi Zero 2w was sluggish when using the legacy OS. When I tried mine I first used the standard OS, but was so slow as to be unusable. When I switched to the Legacy OS, it actually ran fairly well. I would never use a web browser on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2w because of the fact it only has 512mb of RAM and if I did, I would not use more than one tab. I probably would not run any video files either because of the Low RAM. But other than that the Raspberry Pi Zero 2w ran okay. Still wish it had more RAM. A very bad design decision if you ask me.

Delighted.... I'm a 3d model creator and I'm starting on a pip boy project, and I'm adding a raspberry pi. 😃👍🏻

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Great video, well made and informative. I sort of wonder if there are SBCs designed for low power applications. Such as a camera trap that can use microcontroller with movement sensor to wake up processor to record video, take a photo and put itself into sleep. My RPi3B can run from 10000mAh powerbank for roughly one day, although I used IR camera constantly on, including LEDs so it lasted for 5 hours. I assume there are different use cases and high end SBCs do not make much sense cause some refurbished ultra small factor PCs are cheaper, much more powerful and optimized for low idle power with only passive cooling and I feel like my Rpi3B could be slightly more powerful, but it's almost fine. It just cannot for example stream FullHD video and audio together, because it can so-so encode video and accessing sd card, network and usb sound card all via USB2 is too much. Delighted.

I know exactly why there are those callouts are there in the orange pi manual. Each one of them represents thousands of customer service calls from new users thinking the password cannot be entered or doesn't match the one given in the manual. Customer service people got very frustrated and requested the addition of those callouts.

I found the official orange pi OS had the kernel running in debug mode, which is a security issue. I did not change the default password. When I tried to change permissions on a system file , the default password did not work. There is a second password, unknown, for system modifications. I suspect there is backdoor access with the official OS. There is a major security issue here. Which is why the strange warning in the documentation.

Delighted.

Is it safe to assume Banana Pi M4 Zero is comparable to Orange Pi Zero 2W? It basically looks like a deliberate clone

Mate, what about the accessory board that the orangepi allows whereas others don't? Thank you for the video although would be great to understand your score card values. Some of the comments seemed a bit biased. Nevertheless, somewhat delighted.

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D-Lite-Ed 40 pin IO - full technical run down - where do I find?

available os should include third party stuff, but overall good comparison very fair

Thanks for the video! If you think Radxa documentation is bad, then you haven't experienced Sipeed boards documentation😄 I recently worked with a Longan PI 3H and that's where the documentation is really terrible.

ngl I'd be delighted to play around with an orange pi

When is the official M.2 adapter for RPi5 finally arriving ?