The 2GB Raspberry Pi 5, a new member of the Raspberry Pi 5 family that continues what the company says is its mission to bring high-performance general-purpose computing to the widest possible audience, is now available for purchase from approved resellers for only $50, Raspberry Pi has announced. The new variant joins the older 8GB and 4GB models, which remain available for $80 and $60, respectively, according to retail listings.
Key specs include:
- Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache
- VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2
- Dual 4Kp60 HDMI display output with HDR support
- 4Kp60 HEVC decoder
- LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM (2GB, 4GB, and 8GB)
- Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 5.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
- microSD card slot, with support for high-speed SDR104 mode
- 2 × USB 3.0 ports, supporting simultaneous 5Gbps operation
- 2 × USB 2.0 ports
- Gigabit Ethernet, with PoE+ support (requires separate PoE+ HAT)
- 2 × 4-lane MIPI camera/display transceivers
- PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals (requires separate M.2 HAT or other adapter)
- 5V/5A DC power via USB-C, with Power Delivery support
- Raspberry Pi standard 40-pin header
- Real-time clock (RTC), powered from external battery
- Power button
Some promos for the Raspberry Pi 5:
Raspberry Pi on the benefits of its OS and who the 2 GB model is aimed toward:
When running on modern hardware, the practical result has been a modern operating system with a dramatically lighter resource footprint than most general-purpose Linux distributions. So, while our most demanding users — who want to drive dual 4Kp60 displays, or open a hundred browser tabs, or compile complex software from source — will probably stick with the existing higher memory-capacity variants of Raspberry Pi 5, many of you will find that this new, lower-cost variant works perfectly well for your use cases.