The Raspberry Pi 5 is 2.5x faster than the Pi 4 (sometimes more!), and I have the FULL rundown — let me walk you through it in this thread. #RaspberryPi #Pi5
For starters, check out my video on the #RaspberryPi 5, it goes through _everything_ in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBtOEmUqASQ #Pi5
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The Pi 5 is at least 2x faster than the Pi 4 in every meaningful way: WiFi, microSD, USB bandwidth, CPU, GPU... though it still sticks with 1 Gbps Ethernet (but with PTP now!)
The board includes the first custom silicon to hit an official Raspberry Pi SBC, the RP1 chip, which is a 'southbridge' between the BCM2712 and the rest of the IO. It has many tricks up its sleeve—expect to hear more about them in the coming months!
There are also new battery, fan, and UART connectors, as well as a new power button, exposing some very handy quality of life improvements. This is the first Pi that's really comfortable being your tiny PC.
There's also a new Active Cooler and case with improved airflow and a much quieter PWM fan. These are both huge upgrades over what came before, and allow the BCM2712 to run forever without throttling.
I tested a TON of stuff on these boards, most especially the new PCI Express connector on the #RaspberryPi 5—check out my #Pi5 blog post for more on that! https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/testing-pcie-on-raspberry-pi-5
Testing PCIe on the Raspberry Pi 5 | Jeff Geerling

@geerlingguy That’s looking *very* thorough, with one exception: energy efficiency/power consumption are not covered 🤓😅

(That’s the first thing I want to know for 24/7 candidate devices.)

@wimleers I do have a bit in the video, I didn't go in depth in the blog post (lack of time, ugh!). It's 1.8W idle with the official PSU. Sometimes more if you use a 3A PSU instead, which is counterintuitive... but what I measured.
@geerlingguy I'm a bit curious how it compares to the really soon coming Turing RK-1. Any chance you have any to compare?
@jpalko I hope to... ordered RK1 to test.
@geerlingguy got some treats myself yesterday :)
@geerlingguy wating for video how the GPU performs this time as compare to Raspberry PI4 . I have seen the real hardwork to make GPU run on the PI😍

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It will be interesting to see if they are available to the every day end user, or if they are just going to be bought in lots to be embedded in some company's kiosk.

If my local MicroCenter starts actually having stock on hand, rather than a shipment of 20, and being gone within 30 min of hitting the shelf, as is currently happening on the rare situation where they get any 3B+, 4,. The Zero's and 400's tend to hang around for a couple of hours. Haven't seen a Zero_v2 since 2020.

@geerlingguy It may be simpler to say that I hope that general walk up and pick one up off the shelf any day the store is open would be nice if it happened before 2025. And a Pi Zero v3 would be a nice option if they ever get around to working out what should be there. Both DSI video, and camera interfaces would be appreciated.
@geerlingguy will you be covering this in a video as well?
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@geerlingguy they pretty much included everything I've been asking for. This may be the perfect Pi!
@geerlingguy I’m unreasonably excited for the UART connector. I should be excited about PCIe! But no, giddy about an easy serial connection.

@josephholsten lol "how do you tell a dev from a typical user"

"show them a dedicated UART port and see how they react"

@geerlingguy Well, I do work with Ampere Altra servers at my day job. Pretty soon I’ll even be managing the projects to support next gen processors like Ampere Siryn, etc.

So I’m wondering things like what level of SystemReady the rpi5 supports.

@josephholsten I asked about this in May—they aren't (yet) interested in pursuing SR support. I have expressed my interest in them getting there, but it's not a market demand from the majority of customers at this time.

It'd be so cool to have SR SBC though!

@geerlingguy and still no usb pins for hats.

Those usb-to-usb dongles will still be in use.

@hrw Wish they'd grabbed some GPIO pins and put a standard USB 2.0 header on there at least, ah well.

Or maybe a future revision with more FPC PCIe connections delivering USB 3.

@geerlingguy Does this mean we'll have to buy new cases and stuff? I hope the m.2 SSD cases don't take a year to release.
@shadez For some yes; I know a few case manufacturers are already working on a revision (I would love to see Flirc make a passive heatsink case!)
@geerlingguy Dedicated 5 Gbps per USB 3 port is going to be a nice jump and would allow for both a faster NIC and a USB drive for VMs when ESX on ARM Fling is available for the Pi 5. Plus, the first-party active cooling is really nice to see and hear that it's not an annoying sounding fan.