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.

    • Endorkend@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I was able to buy 2 Pi4’s while trying to source 20.

      They cost 2 and 5 times the expected price.

      I ended up converting the project to use VIA industrial x86 boards instead. Reliable supply and reliable price.

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      1 year ago

      Are you talking about RPi4 or RPi5? RP4 can be now found easily, at least in my region (Spain).

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Pi 4b 4GB in stock on US Amazon for 66 right now.

          They’ve been in stock a while. That’s barely above MSRP.