64bit ARM development boards

Although there are now several 64bit ARM SOCs out in the wild for some time, it took some time until affordable development board reached the market.

There exist a ARM Juno board, but it is only available for ARM partners.

AMD A1100 Opteron development kit is for sale and but costs a whopping 2999$.

Allwinner had announced Nobel64 board with a H64 quad core 64bit CPU which was expected to go on sale in early 2015, but was not available in 2015.

96boards has announced the HiKey board featuring the Kirin 620  with 8 Cortex-A53 64-bit cores. It was released in Q4 2015 and it currently sold for 75$ (1GB RAM) and 99$ (2GB RAM).

The Dragonboard 410c uses a Qualcomm 410 with 4 Cortex -A53 cores and 1GB RAM. It is sold for 75$

The Odroid C2 features a Amlogic S905 with 4 Cortex-A53 cores and 2GB RAM. It is available starting March 2016 for 40$.

There exists a Raspberry 3 since February 29 2016 using a Broadcom SoC with 4  Cortex-A53 cores at 1.2GHz and 1GB RAM, featuring WIFI and Bluetooth. It is sold for 35$.

On Kickstarter, a Pine64 board was announced which an Allwinner R18 SoC with  4  Cortex-A53 cores at 1.2GHz. It should also ship in March, too.



It may take a while (probably mid 2016) until fast (A57,A72) SoCs are available on affordable development boards.