Rockchip RK3588 octa-core domestic processor performance review

Mar 21,2024


RK3588 processor advantages

RK3588 is Rockchip's latest generation flagship industrial processor, which has the following outstanding advantages:


Super computing power: Quad-core ARM Cortex-A76@2.4GHz + Quad-core ARM Cortex-A55@1.8GHz big and small core architecture, 

known as the domestic "Xeon embedded processor", can provide efficient computing and multi-threaded processing capabilities.


Super AI computing power: 6TOPS NPU, support INT4/INT8/INT16/FP16/BF16/TF32, support TensorFlow/PyTorch/Caffe/MXNet deep learning framework, 

can easily cope with various big data computing scenarios.


Super video capabilities: Support 8K@60fps H.265, 8K@30fps H.264 video hardware decoding, support 8K@30fps H.265/H.264 video hardware encoding, 

can provide outstanding multimedia experience.


Multiple high-speed interfaces: Support high-speed industrial interfaces such as PCIe 3.0, 3-way PCIe 2.1, 3-way USB3.1, 3-way SATA, 2-way GMAC, etc., 

which can be connected to various external devices at high speed.


RK3588 processor application

Industrial computers:


RK3588 can provide computing power exceeding that of I3 processors, support multi-threaded applications and complex graphics processing, 

and is suitable for industrial automation systems and industrial IoT devices that require high computing power.


Motion controller: RK3588 can provide precise real-time control and data processing capabilities, and is suitable for various motion control applications.


Medical smart devices: RK3588 can provide multi-channel 4K/8K video acquisition and processing capabilities, and can provide 4K/8K multi-screen display capabilities, 

which is particularly suitable for medical endoscopes, ultrasound imaging systems and other equipment.


In-vehicle surround view system: RK3588 can provide 6-channel MIPI video input capabilities, provide high-definition views of the car's surroundings, 

and support a variety of sensor data fusion and video processing technologies, thereby improving the safety performance of the car.


Target recognition and tracking: RK3588 can provide 6TOPS high-performance NPU computing power, support applications such as deep learning algorithms and face recognition, 

and can receive high frame rate images from the FPGA end through the PCIe 3.0 high-speed interface.


Based on the measured data of CoreMark and Glmark2 tools


Coremark is a benchmark tool that is often used to evaluate the CPU computing performance of embedded processors. 

It uses a standard performance measurement unit - cores per second, which represents the number of tasks that the processor can handle in one second. 

By comparing the cores per second of different processors, you can roughly understand the difference in their CPU computing performance.


Glmark2 is an OpenGL benchmark tool for evaluating GPU performance. It evaluates the performance of GPU in different application scenarios by testing different graphics rendering tasks, 

and provides visual results and indicators to facilitate users to select and compare the performance of different devices.


RK3588 and RK3568 processors will be tested at the same time, and the CPU computing performance and GPU computing performance of the two will be compared. 

The test frequency of RK3588 is Cortex-A76@2.4GHz + Cortex-A55@1.8GHz, and the test frequency of RK3568 is Cortex-A55@2.0GHz.


(1) Use the Coremark tool to measure the CPU computing performance of the RK3588 and RK3568 processors. The measured data are shown in the figure below. 

The measured values are RK3588: 83860, RK3568: 29380. The computing performance of RK3588 is about 3 times that of RK3568. 

The performance of RK3588 has been significantly improved!


(2) Use the Glmark2 tool to measure the GPU computing performance of the RK3588 and RK3568 processors.  

The measured values are RK3588: 2320 and RK3568: 568. The computing performance of RK3588 is about 4 times that of RK3568, 

and the performance of RK3588 has been significantly improved!