Battle of the Zeros

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

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

I am delighted that you focused on usability and support. For us hobbyists, giving a concise overview of an expected user experience...kudos to you! Something I wish board manufacturers understood is that most hobbyists lack the dedication and skill set to make something from a spec-sheet and base SDK.

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

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.

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

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 😉

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

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. :)

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

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.

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

Orange Pi and Radxa's impressive specs are not enough to merit my purchase. Simply delighted!

delighted to see more sbc content/comparisons

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

Was delighted to see these three compared

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

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.

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! 🙂

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.

Delighted to see such a great comparison vid.

Delighted to see a good review of these options.

Thank you. Very delighted indeed about this comparison.

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

Delighted to watch your comparison.

Delighted to find this new channel great side by side review thank you

I was delighted to watch this video as a person new to SBC computing. Since this video is a year old, I wonder if the support for the Radxa has matured further to change its score.

Setting an entire category on "does it have a camera header?" and "are the GPIOs 100% equal to theirs rival?" it's a wild take. Even those 2 points are true there's more to it like an LCD header for projects or industrial use, that most likely it will be the end purpose of most of those SBCs. The performance test was great showing that even the best CPU won't hold up if the software stinks

I'm always delighted to watch your videos. I always learn something new and I really enjoy them. Keep up the good work!

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. 😊

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

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

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

I'm absolutely delighted to find another interesting RUclipsr covering cool electronics! :)

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.

Delighted! I figured I would learn the basics and start with the Pi Zero 2 W! Once I Master That, I will move up to the Raspberry Pi 5! I want to learn the in’s & out’s of these SBC’s! IOT (internet of things) is The Future! I didn’t have the luxury of a Stable Learning Environment for Many Years of Exile! Now I’m Back, I am eager to learn how to code and develop cool gadgets and Create something Awesome! 😎 this is Great Stuff! I’m sorting out my Amazon Order right now! I want to master these Raspberry Pi’s!

I am delighted to watch this comparison of zero boards. Thank you for this great video.

I think that's a fair assessment.

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

Delighted to know the differences between the zeros, I was looking to buy one of these for my homelab setup!!

Delighted I’m just getting into knowing about other options then raspberry pi n small cpu /cp actually been wanted to make something batter then flipper zero lol but ur videos was very informative

delighted to find a new channel!

Excellent video, I was delighted to watch it!

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

delighted . I would love more content on radxa and luckfox , and love your videos not to long not to short

I was super delighted!

Delighted, thank you for the great content. I am going for the rpi zero 2w to build a camera doorbell as my 1st project.

Delight(ful)ed video.

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

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.

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

Thank You for making this video. It's so elaborate, unbiased and helpful.
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Definitely Delighted! Great review and at the right time for my project. Thanks.

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.

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

Thanks for this, I bought a pi zero 2w with the intention of running home assistant on it, but with only 512mb of ram, it is difficult to get running, and kind of sucks to use. I think I am going to repurpose it as an octoeverywhere board for the time being rather than returning it. In the meantime, I was looking into the OPi 2w or the Radxa 3w for HA. Since HA Supervised needs Debian, it looks like either will do nicely, which I am DELIGHTED to see.

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

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

Which is the best choice for light weight Image Processing and ML tasks? Consider the price to performance when recommending.🙂

Subscribed - delighted.

Delighted
This was an interesting video as I just bought my first SBC, a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W.

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

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.

This was a pretty good video, very informative!

Delighted! Thanks for a great comparison…

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.

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!

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.

Delighted to see your comparison, thank you.

Is it possible to overclock the O(range)pi ?

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

Delighted to discover your channel

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'm delighted, thanks for alternatives

Very informative, plus I like your format and presentation! Thanks and kudos!! Since I want a amall form SBC with good camera capabilities, I'll stick with the Pi Zero 2 W; Ive already excluded ESP32 Cam.

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.

Speaking of 2024. How is the WPA3 support status for these SBCs?

I am delighted I used an RPI zero 2 iny recent project. Power consumption was my top prio, btw :)

“Delighted” Can you still run android on the raspberry pi?

When I heard the way you are trying to get people to comment on your video, I was Delighted. Actually Smart though! It works!

Great video. I was delighted to see a Wisconsin license plate on your pegboard.

Thank you for your review of the Zeros SBC, it have been an enlightment for decision on selection of board for tiny small projects, as for the camera related i would also consider Milk-V duo board although it would have a the lowest score for the stated criteria

Great video delighted with the score.

Delighted. I am just getting into the Raspberry PI but had seen the Orange PI and was wondering if it was a better option for an LLM. That's how I found your channel. Thank you for the info. I might give the Orange a try for the Deepseek R1 project, but I will stick to Raspberry's for everything else. Have a good one.

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

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

Delighted to see this comparison. I own a Orange Pi 2W and a Radxa Zero 3E(basically the 3W but 1Gbps ethernet instead of WiFi). Can not agree more on the underwhelming state of Radxa's documentation and "Official" OS. Building the Radxa Zero 3E as a PiKVM and the Orange Pi Zero 2W has been a USB OTG Tailscale router for over a year.

Didn't know orange pi existed until this video. I want to make a micro desktop now. A camping computer in an ammo box 😊

Delighted, thanks for your effort

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.

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.

Delighted. thanks for this great explanation.

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

Delighted to make a comment. I’d like to see the ease of use for specific use cases. I’m thinking the raxda for an ip kvm due to the mali and emmc drive. Seems like a logical long term choice. I think the addition of emmc over sd means it can be used for a long term robot or appliance. Thoughts?

hmm , not sure why orange pi page need https encryption. There is no functionality like purchasing and registers on the pages. What kinds of things I miss here? Do we need encryipting data for just information of Orangepi spec? That is going to be just wasting energy for nothing.....

Delighted! great review!

Delighted - subbed!

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

Great video, completely delighted.

what about reliability / board quality?