Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains.
The Raspberry Pi 5 is designed to deliver a 2~3x performance improvement over the Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi 5 features a quad-core Cortex-A76 processor that clocks up to 2.4GHz, compared to the four Cortex-A72 cores found in the Raspberry Pi 4 that only clocked up to 1.8GHz. The graphics are also much-improved with now having an 800MHz VideoCore VII graphics processor over the VideoCore VI graphics with the Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi 5 is capable of driving two 4K @ 60Hz displays and features 4K @ 60 HEVC decode hardware capabilities.
Also interesting with the Raspberry Pi 5 is that it features in-house silicon in the form of the RP1 “southbridge” used for much of the board’s I/O capabilities. This southbridge should yield faster USB I/O along with other I/O bandwidth upgrades like a doubling of the peak SD card performance. The Raspberry Pi 5 also features a single-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface for improved connectivity.
Ok, the amount of Pi’s 5 for guaranteed delivery next day is sold out, but I’m in (first batch gone in 6 hours). 🙆♂️ The other’s will receive Pi’s until Christmas. The mania has begun.
Edit: I’m not even sure what I’ll do with them I have zero (pi hole), zero 2w (ps4 jailbreak), 2gb 3b (with touch display and kali), 4gb 4b (6tb nas for movies and shows) so I need 8gb 5. 😅 Finding the use for it is the last problem. 😅
Dammit, is that why all the preorder resellers wouldn’t take my preorder!