Radxa Dragon Q8B
Board Pictures
Hardware
Specs
| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (SC8280XP) |
|---|---|
| CPU | 4x Arm Cortex-X1 @ 3.0GHz 4x Arm Cortex-A78 @ 2.4GHz |
| RAM | LPDDR4X up to 4266 MT/s, 128-bit - Up to 32GB |
| GPU | Qualcomm Adreno 690 - OpenGL ES 3.2 - Vulkan 1.3 - OpenCL 2.0 - DirectX - DirectML |
| AI | Qualcomm Hexagon processor and Sensing Hub - Qualcomm AI Engine up to 29+ TOPS |
| VPU | Decode up to 4K120 (H.265 Main 10 / H.265 Main / H.264 High / VP9 Profile 2) Encode up to 4K60 (H.265 Main 10 / H.265 Main / H.264 High) |
Interfaces
| I/O | Description |
|---|---|
| Wireless | 1x M.2 E Key 2230 for a Wi-Fi 6E / Bluetooth 5.3 module V1.3 and later can use a Wi-Fi 7 module |
| Ethernet | 2x 2.5GbE RJ45 (QPS615 PCIe bridge, AVB/TSN) |
| USB | 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (DisplayPort 1.4 Alt Mode) 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A 2x USB 2.0 Type-A 1x USB Type-C power input |
| Video | 1x HDMI 2.1, up to 4K120 2x USB Type-C DisplayPort 1.4 Alt Mode, up to 4K120 |
| Camera | 1x 50-pin board-to-board connector (PCIe / MIPI CSI / I2C) |
| Audio | 3.5 mm headphone jack Microphone connector |
| Storage | Boot: onboard SPI NOR flash 1x UFS 3.1 module (Gear 4 x2) 1x microSD 1x M.2 M Key 2280 (PCIe 3.0 x4) 1x M.2 M Key 2280 (PCIe 3.0 x2) |
| Power | USB Type-C, 20V 12–20V power header with external power-button pin |
| GPIO | 40-pin header (UART, I2C, SPI, GPIO) |
| Other | 1x FPC (PCIe 3.0 x1) RTC battery connector Fan connector Power button, EDL button 100 mm × 75 mm |
Available OS images
- Radxa OS
- Windows on Arm
- Ubuntu
- Armbian
- Arch Linux
- NixOS
- Debian
Documentation / Links
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6.7.1 Preview, Armbian 26.08 (kernel 7.0.11-midstream-sc8280xp):
Single Core 1663, Multi Core 6852

