Radxa Dragon Q8B review: a Raspberry Pi 5 rival at $209

Jeff Geerling tested the Radxa Dragon Q8B single-board computer, built on the Qualcomm SC8280XP with 8 GB of LPDDR4X and priced at $209. The board triples the Raspberry Pi 5's Geekbench 6 multi-core score and is more power-efficient (3.73 vs 2.75 Gflops/W), but needs custom Linux images and has UEFI BIOS issues.

• Radxa Dragon Q8B costs $209; Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB is $175
• Triples the Raspberry Pi 5's Geekbench 6 multi-core score
• Power efficiency of 3.73 Gflops/W vs 2.75 for the Raspberry Pi 5
• Twin 2.5GbE ports and more PCIe, but Linux requires Radxa images