It uses the AllWinner A10SoC, popular on cheap tablets, phones and media PCs. This SoC is used by developers of the lima driver, an open-source driver for the ARM Mali GPU.[8] At the 2013 FOSDEM demo it ran ioquake 3 at 47 fps in 1024×600.[9]
The second version, sold since June 2013, enhances the board mainly by replacing the Allwinner A10 SoC with an Allwinner A20 which contains 2 ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore CPUs and a dual fragment shader Mali-400 GPU (Mali-400MP2).[12]
This board is used by Fedora to test and develop the Allwinner SoC port of the distribution.[13]
There is also a version available with two microSD card slots.[14]
There is no LVDS support any longer. The RTL8211E NIC allows transfer rates up to 630–638 Mbit/s (sending while 5–10% idle) and 850–860 Mbit/s (receiving while 0–2% idle) when simultaneous TCP connections are established (testing was done utilising iperf with three clients against Cubietruck running Lubuntu)
To connect a 3.5" HDD the necessary 12 V power can be delivered by a 3.5 inch HDD addon package which can be used to power the Cubietruck itself as well.[16] Also new is the option to power the Cubietruck from LiPo batteries.
Cubieboard 4
On May 4, 2014 CubieTech announced the Cubieboard 4, the board is also known as CC-A80.[17]
It is based on an Allwinner A80 SoC (quad Cortex-A15, quad Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE), thereby replacing the Mali GPU with a PowerVR GPU. The board was officially released on 10 March 2015.[18]
