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Rockchip RK3588 NPU for Frigate (Orange Pi 5): Benchmarks

Frigate RKNN detector speeds on RK3588 and RK3566, from docs and community builds.

last reviewed 2026-10-19 newest Frigate 0.18.2Hardware in this guide: Rockchip RK3588 NPU · Rockchip RK3566 NPU · Orange Pi 5B

Rockchip boards like the Orange Pi 5 run Frigate's community-supported RKNN detector on their built-in NPU, using the -rk image.

Known issues and gotchas

  • Supported SoCs for detection: RK3562, RK3566, RK3568, RK3576, RK3588 (docs).
  • Docs: RK3588 with all 3 cores is "typically 25-30 ms for yolo-nas s".
  • 0.17 added automatic ONNX→RKNN conversion, including Frigate+ models (0.17.0 notes).
  • The -rk image is excluded from 0.18's FFmpeg 8 update (0.18.0 notes).
  • A 108-camera user is migrating to Orange Pi 5 Max and reports 8 cameras at about half its resources (#24381).

Live numbers for this guide's hardware

Generated from the database at build time

The text above is written by hand and never contains numbers or prices. Everything below is pulled from builds.json and hardware.json when the site is built, so it stays current without touching the guide.

Rockchip RK3588 NPU
AcceleratorRKNN (Rockchip)
Estimate capacityCompare
Median inference
25 ms
all models · 6 usable builds
Capacity · estimate
~71 det/s
yolox-nano median 14 ms · 1 detector
Cameras · estimate
17
5 fps · Typical · under 60% (28 before overload)
Price
not tracked yet
no retailer link listed
BuildSourceModelSpeedCamsFrigatePosted
db-128 community yolov8 40 ms 1 0.12.1 Sep 2023 · GitHub #7601
db-103 Frigate docs yolox-nano 14 ms — — checked 2026-10-19
db-104 Frigate docs yolox-tiny 18 ms — — checked 2026-10-19
db-101 Frigate docs yolo-nas-s 20 ms — — checked 2026-10-19
db-102 Frigate docs yolo-nas-m 30 ms — — checked 2026-10-19
db-100 Frigate docs yolov9-tiny 35 ms — — checked 2026-10-19
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Rockchip RK3566 NPU
AcceleratorRKNN (Rockchip)
Estimate capacityCompare
Median inference
96 ms
all models · 1 usable build
Capacity · estimate
~10 det/s
yolo-nas-s median 96 ms · 1 detector
Cameras · estimate
2
5 fps · Typical · under 60% (4 before overload)
Price
not tracked yet
no retailer link listed
BuildSourceModelSpeedCamsFrigatePosted
db-105 Frigate docs yolo-nas-s 96 ms — — checked 2026-10-19
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BuildSourceModelSpeedCamsFrigatePosted
db-128 community yolov8 40 ms 1 0.12.1 Sep 2023 · GitHub #7601
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