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I Benchmarked Java on Single-Board Computers: Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Raspberry Pi 5 Lead the Pack

In my "Java on Single Board Computers" series, I already published several posts and videos in which I unpack the board, connect it for the first time, and try to install and run some simple Java code. In this post, I want to share some benchmarks of Java on these boards to get a better idea of the performance we can expect from Java on these platforms. Blog with all the links, info, screenshots of the dashboard, etc: https://webtechie.be/post/2026-02-24-... 00:00 About all the boards in the test and the goal of the benchmark project 01:01 The benchmark runner JBang script 02:06 The summarizer JBang script 02:22 The Renaissance Benchmark Suite 02:45 Overall winners: Apple M and LattePanda IOTA 03:15 LattePanda IOTA versus Raspberry Pi 5 03:58 SBC winners: Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Raspberry Pi 5 04:51 Results of the RISC-V boards 05:18 What we learn from the benchmarks 06:06 Call to action: try the benchmarks and contribute your results! 07:04 Future plans: more boards, JavaFX, and Pi4J GPIO To make the benchmark testing as easy as possible, I created a simple tool (written in Java of course!) that can be executed with JBang. The complete project is available on GitHub: https://github.com/FDelporte/sbc-java... Based on an automatically generated summary.json and other configuration files in the repository's data directory, I created (with a lot of help of Claude.ai...) an interactive dashboard to visualize all the results. You can explore it yourself at my website: https://webtechie.be/sbc/ Not surprisingly, my Apple M2 workstation dominates the charts with the fastest scores across all benchmarks. This is expected, it's a high-end desktop processor with 12 cores and significantly more power budget than any single-board computer. The *LattePanda IOTA* with its *Intel N150* x86 processor also performs exceptionally well, coming in second place on most tests. Among the boards that fit the traditional SBC form factor (Raspberry Pi-sized, passive or small fan cooling, under $200), the results tell a more nuanced story: Orange Pi 5 Ultra (ARM RK3588, 8 cores) shows the best results in most of the tests, particularly on multithreaded workloads. Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM Cortex-A76, 4 cores @ 2.4GHz) delivers solid, consistent performance across all benchmarks, very close to the Orange Pi 5 Ultra. Raspberry Pi 4 (ARM Cortex-A72, 4 cores @ 1.8GHz) still performs admirably despite being an older generation. All others show significantly lower performance, which is expected given their lower core counts and less powerful CPUs. The RISC-V boards present an interesting case. The Orange Pi RV2, BeagleV-Fire, and StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite show that RISC-V is absolutely viable for running Java applications, though performance still lags behind ARM equivalents. This is expected given that RISC-V is a newer architecture with less mature tooling and optimization. The results confirm: Java runs without problems on all these platforms, from ARM to x86 to RISC-V! Of course, there are performance differences between architectures and specific boards, but every single one of the tested devices can run real-world Java applications with a good performance. #JavaOnSingleBoardComputers #JavaOnRaspberryPi #JavaOnRiscV