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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] MeanEYE 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What annoys me about all these RPi articles is the praise for improved performance and all the projects you can do with it, etc. But you can't find the damn thing to purchase. It's always out of stock everywhere I look. So much so I have given up on it completely. There are other competitor products with lower price that are fully compatible or I'll just end up using old phone.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://rpilocator.com/

They are way easier to find now than last year. Which ruined my little home project

[–] A_Random_Idiot 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

jesus christ those Pi Zero prices.

This shit has gotten stupid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you looking at the price in other currencies? Because all the US ones are $15

[–] A_Random_Idiot 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pi Zero is supposed to be 5.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But with components continuing to get more expensive, Upton wrote, the Zero models have to increase as well—from $5 to $10 for a Zero and $10 to $15 for a Zero W (with wireless).

They are selling for what they are supposed to be sold for.

[–] MeanEYE 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you very very much.