Introduction
The CUBIE A5E is a compact single board computer (SBC) from Radxa, powered by the Allwinner A527 or T527 processor, featuring an 8-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU with an Arm Mali-G57 MC1 GPU. The T527 version also integrates a 2 TOPS ( INT8) arithmetic NPU and Cadence Tensilica HiFi4 DSP for AI applications and industrial scenarios.
Motherboard OverView

Chip Architecture
- A527
- T527


Specs
Model | A5E | |
SoC | A527 | T527 |
CPU | 4x Cortex®-A55 up to 1.8GHz; 4x Cortex®-A55 up to 1.4GHz | |
GPU | ARM G57 MC01, supporting OpenGL ES 3.2/2.0/1.1 OpenCL 2.2 Vulkan 1.1/1.2/1.3 | |
NPU | / | 2 Tops |
DDR | 1/2/4/8GB LPDDR4 / LPDDR4x | |
Storage | onBoard EMMC 0/16/32/64/128GB | |
Display | HDMI x 1 maximum support 4K@60FPS,DSI x1 4 lanes, maximum support 1080p60 | |
Hardware Codec | Hardware decode H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8, H.263, MPEG‑4, MPEG‑2 maximum support 4K@60fps Hardware Encode H.264 maximum support 4K@25fps | |
Ethernet | 10/100/1000M x 2 | |
WIFI/BT | onBoard WIFI6 / BT 5.2 | |
M.2 | Supporting M.2 2230 NVMe SSD | |
USB | 1x USB 3.0 HOST 1x USB 2.0 OTG(Type C) | |
Camera | 1 x CSI Port( 4 x lanes MIPI CSI Or 2 x lanes MIPI CSI) | |
Others | 40-Pin Expansion Block | |
Power | 5V Only, Power supply >= 15W | |
Size | 56mm x 65mm |