Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O Review
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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.

  • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
    243·
    1 year ago

    Obviously I got a RPi4 just a couple months ago, after struggling for 2-3 years… Well, crap.

    EDIT: at least the prices didn’t seem to have increases significantly over the previous version.

      • Endorkend@kbin.social
        11·
        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.

      • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
        32·
        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.comEnglish
            1·
            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.