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# About Banana Pi BPI-W2

BPI-W2 integrate a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 MPcore operating up to 1.5GHz, The Router also includes a variety of peripherals, including HDMI RX/TX, Mini DP, PCIe2.0,PCIe1.1\&SDIO,M.2 interface, USB2.0

## About Banana Pi BPI-W2 with Realtek RTD1296 chip design

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Banana PI BPI-W2 is a highly integrated multimedia network router;it can be used for high wireless performance, homeentertainment,home automation and so on...

![Banana Pi BPI-W2 Open Source smart router](https://2066668521-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M2HWtQqFLHQ4kO9KdDh%2F-MeUDuaZpTyf45A6ukxe%2F-MeUE2k11EWyWZELBLNt%2FBPI-W2.png?alt=media\&token=5968737b-e760-4aad-9c48-337f5365bbb0)

BPI-W2 integrate a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 MPcore operating up to 1.5GHz, The Router also includes a variety of peripherals, including HDMI RX/TX, Mini DP, PCIe2.0,PCIe1.1\&SDIO,M.2 interface, USB2.0 , USB3.0 Port, SATA port，2 Gbps Port Gigabit Ethernet port, also support 802.11ac/n WLAN connection thru PCI-e port

BPI-W2 can run with Android6.0 smoothly, it also can run OpenWRT,Debian,linux,Ubuntu linux, Raspbian and others OS. The size of Banana Pi BPI-W2 same as [BPI-R2](https://bananapi.gitbooks.io/banana-pi-bpi-r2-open-source-smart-router/content/), it can easily run with the game it support 1080P high definition video output, the GPIO compatible with Raspberry Pi3

More specs follow below.

* Realtek RTD1296, Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53
* Mali T820 MP3 GPU
* 2G DDR4 SDRAM
* PCIE 2.0 interface.PCEe 1.1\&SDIO
* **support 2 SATA interface**&#x20;
* MicroSD slot supports up to 256GB expansion
* 8G eMMC flash (option 16/32/64G)
* Mini DP
* 2 port 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet port
* (1) USB 3.0 and (2) USB 2.0,otg port
* 1080P high-definition video playback
* HDMI In/Out
* TYPE C interface

**Android 6.0 system support**

![](https://2066668521-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M2HWtQqFLHQ4kO9KdDh%2F-M2HWv4olH00tP0BZDBQ%2F-M2HXICb-mB1I-kaSNEs%2Fandroid%206.0%20\(2\).jpg?generation=1584080179073403\&alt=media)

**Linux system support : now we test at kernel 4.1.35 , will try to update to kernel 4.9**

![](https://2066668521-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M2HWtQqFLHQ4kO9KdDh%2F-M2HWv4olH00tP0BZDBQ%2F-M2HXICdzDpceT8BkQit%2FBPI-W2%20system.jpg?generation=1584080179265381\&alt=media)

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