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.