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Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So for how much :-D

I'd take a cheap slow one any day...

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man I really want something in the full size form factor but with a CPU closer to a zero2, basically I want a pi3 modernised and cost optimised, not another more powerful pi.

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I want a cheaper zero with less power use, very few of my projects come close to using all the zeros resources so if they could do similar spec cheaper and modernized it would be amazing.

Maybe chuck on an ADC, power management for batteries, better usb power supply...

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is great news... for business customers, as they're those are the only channels they'll be available through.

Well, unless you don't mind spending $200-$400 per unit to scalpers, who magically never seem to run out of stock.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is great news… for business customers, as they’re those are the only channels they’ll be available through.

~~Could you elaborate, as I would imagine you'd be able to buy it from anywhere that wants to sell it, if not online?~~

Edit: As I read further into this conversation a comment stood out for me that gave me understanding on what the original comment I was replying to might have been speaking about.

They’re gonna prioritise companies again and make it impossible for normal people to get it, right?