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New Raspberry Pi 5 board full of updates

Raspberry Pi 5. [Credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation]

 

 

The much-anticipated new Raspberry Pi 5 4-GB and 8-GB boards are now available for pre-order from Newark, Raspberry Pi's exclusive global licensee.

Raspberry Pi 5 delivers a two-to-three times increase in performance over Raspberry Pi 4, including a significant boost to GPU performance, together with improvements to camera, display, and USB interfacing. These interfacing improvements are delivered by the RP1 I/O controller chip, designed in-house at Raspberry Pi, and marking the first time Raspberry Pi's proprietary silicon has featured on a flagship product.

Prices for everything have gone up -- including Raspberry Pi. The new 4-GB board is $60, while the 8-GB model will run you $80.

Key features of the new Raspberry Pi 5 include:

• 2.4-GHz quad-core, 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with 512-KB L2 caches and a 2-MB shared L3 cache;
• VideoCore VII GPU;
• LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM;
• 2.4-GHz and 5.0-GHz 802.11ac Wi-Fi;
• Bluetooth 5.0/Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE);
• Micro SD card slot, with support for high-speed SDR104 mode;
• 2 x USB 3.0 ports, supporting simultaneous 5-Gbps operation and 2 x USB 2.0 ports;
• Gigabit Ethernet, with PoE+ support (requires PoE+ HAT);
• 2 x 4 lane MIPI camera/display transceivers;
• PCIe 2.0 x 1 interface for fast peripherals;
• 5-V/5-A DC power (PD enabled);
• Raspberry Pi standard 40-pin header;
• Real-Time Clock (RTC) powered from external battery; and
• On-board power button.

Other enhancements available for users include a new case with improved thermal features, including an integrated variable-speed fan that is powered and controlled from a dedicated connector on the Raspberry Pi 5 PCB. An active cooler provides an alternative cooling solution for customers who wish to use their Raspberry Pi 5 under sustained heavy load without a case. A new 27-W USB-C PD (Power Delivery) Power Supply delivers a maximum of 5.1 V/5 A enabling the Raspberry Pi 5 to power a wider range of peripherals.

"Raspberry Pi 5 is the single largest engineering program we've ever undertaken, spanning more than half a decade," says Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi CEO. "We're hugely excited by the performance of the completed product: a no-compromises Linux desktop computer from just $60. Newark has been a Raspberry Pi licensee since the launch of the original product in February 2012, and is now our sole licensee."

Check out the new Raspberry Pi 5 board and a full range of accessories at Newark newark.com/buy-raspberry-pi. First units should ship out at the end of this month or early November. Some first orders could ship in December or even January 2024 due to high demand.

Raspberry Pi also has a list of other approved U.S. resellers here. If you find and buy an early unit on ebay or the like instead, you will probably pay a very hefty premium.

You can read Rasberry Pi's official, very detailed blog release for the new board at raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/.

If you are interested in a user perspective on the new release, check out the Alex Ellis blog https://blog.alexellis.io/first-impressions-with-the-raspberry-pi-5/. Ellis was sent an early release test board, and he goes in depth about the updates Raspberry Pi 5 affords -- and what has gone away -- and real-world test numbers.

Sources: Raspberry Pi Foundation, Newark, Alex Ellis blog (link to review only)

Published October 2023

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