Qualcomm made a Pi 5 killer. Good luck getting one.

The Radxa Dragon Q8B is more than twice as fast, has twice the I/O, and is only a little bit larger than the Raspberry Pi 5. But it costs a smidge more, and can be hard to find.

Links to things I mentioned in this video:

- My SBC Reviews website: https://sbc-reviews.jeffgeerling.com
- Radxa Dragon Q8B benchmark data: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/108
- I bought my 8GB model from ARACE: https://arace.tech/products/radxa-dragon-q8b

None of those are affiliate links, and I purchased all the hardware used in this review :)

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Contents:

00:00 - 2x everything except the price
01:11 - Picking an OS shouldn't be this hard
02:38 - First boot and usage
04:14 - Benchmarks and performance
06:37 - Hardware notes
07:15 - BIOS, UEFI, and Linux ISOs
08:14 - The big problem