BananaPi R4 Lite
The BPI-R4 Lite is the cheaper MT7987A sibling of the BananaPi R4, with the same 148 × 100.5 mm footprint. Banana Pi markets it as a Filogic 850-class design. It drops the 10G SFP+ ports and the NVMe slot, but keeps Wi-Fi 7 card slots and adds an M.2 B-Key slot for 4G/5G modems.
Hardware
Specs
| SoC | MediaTek MT7987A |
|---|---|
| CPU | 4× Cortex-A53 @ 2 GHz (OpenWrt MT7987A) MediaTek Filogic 860 marketing also describes a triple-core Cortex-A73 platform SKU under the same brand |
| Memory | DDR3 / DDR4 |
| Storage | SPI-NOR, SPI-NAND, eMMC |
| PCIe | PCIe Gen 3 |
| USB | USB 3.2 Gen1 |
| Ethernet | 10 GbE (USXGMII class) 2.5 GbE (PHY) 1 GbE (multiple ports on the platform) |
| Wi-Fi | Dual-band concurrent Wi-Fi 7 (a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be), Platform class BE7200 (7.2 Gbps PHY), 4x4 2.4 GHz + 5x5 5/6 GHz antenna design on the Filogic 860 RF platform |
| I/O | UART, SD, SPI, PWM, GPIO |
| Network offload | Hardware QoS and tunneling offload (VLAN / PPTP / L2TP / GRE) Networking crypto engine (EIP-197) for IPv4 NATP / IPv6 / DS-Lite / 6RD |
| SoC page | Filogic 860 / MT7987 |
Interfaces
| Board | BananaPi R4 Lite |
|---|---|
| Memory | DDR4 2 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB eMMC, 256 MB SPI NAND flash, 32 MB SPI NOR flash, microSD |
| PCIe | 1× miniPCIe: PCIe Gen 3 x2 (Wi-Fi 7 NIC such as BPI-R4-NIC-BE14) 1× miniPCIe: PCIe (USB 2.0) 1× M.2 B-Key: PCIe (USB 3.0, 4G/5G modems) |
| USB | 1× USB 3.0 Type-A (shares the SoC lane with one HSGMII/SGMII interface) 1× USB 2.0 Type-C (debug console) |
| Ethernet | 1× 2.5 GbE (SFP) 1× 2.5 GbE (RJ45 WAN, optional PoE) 4× 1 GbE (LAN via MT7531AE switch) |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 7 via miniPCIe NIC card (not included) |
| GPIO | 2× 8-pin mikroBUS headers |
| Dimensions | 148 × 100.5 mm |
| SIM | 3× nano SIM slots |