The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that the Raspberry Pi 5 is now available for pre-order at approved resellers ahead of its release in late October. This latest generation of the popular single-board computer, which is available in 4 GB ($60) or 8 GB ($80) variants and marks the very first to feature silicon designed in‑house in Cambridge, U.K., features a 2.4 GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU and VideoCore VII GPU, enabling what the company says is 2x to 3x better CPU and GPU performance versus its 2019 predecessor, the Raspberry Pi 4. Peak power consumption has risen from 8 to 12 watts, however, due to the higher performance ceiling.
Raspberry Pi 5 Key Features
- 2.4 GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU
- VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2
- Dual 4Kp60 HDMI display output
- 4Kp60 HEVC decoder
- Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 5.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
- High-speed microSD card interface with SDR104 mode support
- 2 × USB 3.0 ports, supporting simultaneous 5Gbps operation
- 2 × USB 2.0 ports
- Gigabit Ethernet, with PoE+ support (requires separate PoE+ HAT, coming soon)
- 2 × 4-lane MIPI camera/display transceivers
- PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals
- Raspberry Pi standard 40-pin GPIO header
- Real-time clock
- Power button
…we’ve been quietly working on a much more radical overhaul of the Raspberry Pi platform. Today, that effort bears fruit, with the launch of Raspberry Pi 5: compared to Raspberry Pi 4, we have between two and three times the CPU and GPU performance; roughly twice the memory and I/O bandwidth; and for the first time we have Raspberry Pi silicon on a flagship Raspberry Pi device.
In a break from recent tradition, we are announcing Raspberry Pi 5 before the product arrives on shelves. Units are available to pre-order today from many of our Approved Reseller partners, and we expect the first units to ship by the end of October.
Discussion (6 replies)
Join Discussion →I saw this recently: https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-benchmarks
Saw this posted, but haven't look at it yet: https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-graphics
Oh, that's exciting. I could upgrade the distributed computing pi farm
Nice. I wonder how that compares to something like an Odroid N2+.
If the claims on both sides are accurate (Odroid N2+ twice the performance of RPI4, and RPI5 3x the performance of RPI 4, tthe RPI5 should now have the lead.
I have a few N2+ units in the house I use as Kodi/MythTV frontend boxes. They do a good job, and use much less power than the mini-ITX Haswell era celerons they replaced.
Still no need to upgrade though. They handle the workload just fine.
A bit worried about the jump in TDP - I do understand you don't get performance for free, but part of the allure of RPi is that it's low power and no moving parts. You start needing to add fans and .. I'm less interested.
Maybe you are able to underclock it, or set some sort of TDP limit?
Oh, that's exciting. I could upgrade the distributed computing pi farm
its very easy to undervolt and under clock them - just an entry in a text file. All my pi 4s can run at stock speed at 20% less voltage than stock