Thursday, September 28th 2023
Raspberry Pi Foundation Launches Raspberry Pi 5
It has been over four years since the release of the Raspberry Pi 4, and in that time a lot has changed in the maker board and single-board computer landscape. For the Raspberry Pi Foundation there were struggles with worldwide demand and production capacity brought on by the global pandemic starting in 2020, and plenty of new competitors came to the scene to offer ready to order alternatives to the venerable RPi 4. Today however the production woes have been assuaged and a new generation of Raspberry Pi is here; the Raspberry Pi 5.
Raspberry Pi 5 is being announced in advance of availability unlike every prior RPi device launch. Pre-orders are open with many of the listed Approved Resellers on RPi's website starting today but unit shipments aren't expected until near the end of October 2023. As part of this pre-order scheme, RPi Foundation is withholding pre-orders from bulk customers and will be dealing in single-unit sales for individuals until at least the end of the year, as well as running some promotions with The MagPi and HackSpace magazines to give priority access to their subscribers. Genuinely nice to see, considering how hard it was to obtain a Pi 4 for the average Joe over the last couple years. The two announced prices for the RPi 5 are $60 USD for the 4 GB variant, and $80 USD for the 8 GB variant; or about $5 USD more than current reseller pricing on comparable configurations of the Raspberry Pi 4.
The Raspberry Pi 5 incorporates entirely new silicon with improvements made to nearly every aspect of the board. Below, Raspberry Pi Foundation provides a list of key features that paint the broad strokes of all the changes made to the RPi 5:
The Raspberry Pi 5 hosts many hardware changes and even some compatibility breaking new interfaces; however, the RPi Foundation has headed off the possible issues this may cause for users with a slew of new I/O accessories to address these changes. First, due to the new high density "mini" MIPI connectors RPi 5 is launching with multiple lengths of adapters to allow the use of existing "standard" MIPI devices. These adapter ribbon cables come in 200 mm, 300 mm, and 500 mm lengths and cost $1, $2, and $3 USD respectively. Alongside these are a new POE+ HAT adapter launching in 2024 that supports the relocated PoE header.
A rather exciting change comes from the addition of PCI Express 2.0 on the Rasberry Pi 5, and the expansion options for "fast peripherals" this opens up. To take advantage of this, a pair of mechanical HAT adapters for M.2 devices and accessories will be launching in 2024. These allow for the use of standard 2230 and 2242 devices such as NVMe SSDs, third party WWAN, WLAN, and BLE adapters. Presumably M.2 breakout adapters could also work, such as those that split to USB or SATA, but we'll have to wait for the adapters to test. The first of the two adapters (like the prototype pictured below) supports so-called "larger devices" while the second adapter will follow the L-shape configuration of the PoE+ HAT and allow for M.2 devices to fit within the plastic case accessory.
With increased performance sometimes comes (slightly) increased power draw, and Raspberry Pi 5 can pull as much as 50% more power than the Raspberry Pi 4 in demanding tasks. Because of this, and because of enthusiasts that will want to overclock, a new $12 USD 27 W USB-C power adapter will be made available. RPi Foundation is quick to point out that the RPi 5 does not need this increased power to function, and the 15 W power adapter will still work. However, with the 15 W power adapter the RPi 5 will limit downstream USB current to 600 mA maximum to ensure that it has ample headroom for very demanding tasks that might have the board pulling its maximum power rating. This USB current limit can still be disabled by the user when using the 15 W power adapter, and RPi Foundation says, "Raspberry Pi 5 functions perfectly well with typical configurations of higher-power USB devices, and all but the most pathological workloads."
Finally with the inclusion of a real-time clock in the Raspberry Pi 5, an RTC battery will be made available for a $5 USD surcharge. Frankly I feel like this should come with the standard kit, but at least it's available as a first-party accessory. (Though wiring up your own with some spare wire, a 2-wire JST plug, 3 V coin-cell, and some heat-shrink isn't out of the question.)
If reading all that wasn't on your agenda today, you're in luck. Raspberry Pi Foundation's Eben Upton hosted an excellent short video overview of the new Raspberry Pi 5 just for you. Further blog posts talking about the Raspberry Pi 5 will be posted and linked to on the Raspberry Pi 5 main page in the coming weeks.
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Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi 5 is being announced in advance of availability unlike every prior RPi device launch. Pre-orders are open with many of the listed Approved Resellers on RPi's website starting today but unit shipments aren't expected until near the end of October 2023. As part of this pre-order scheme, RPi Foundation is withholding pre-orders from bulk customers and will be dealing in single-unit sales for individuals until at least the end of the year, as well as running some promotions with The MagPi and HackSpace magazines to give priority access to their subscribers. Genuinely nice to see, considering how hard it was to obtain a Pi 4 for the average Joe over the last couple years. The two announced prices for the RPi 5 are $60 USD for the 4 GB variant, and $80 USD for the 8 GB variant; or about $5 USD more than current reseller pricing on comparable configurations of the Raspberry Pi 4.
- Broadcom BCM2712 2.4 GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU (512 KB per-core L2, 2 MB shared L3)
- VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2
- Dual 4Kp60 HDMI display output
- 4Kp60 HEVC decoder
- LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM
- Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 5.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
- High-speed microSD card interface with SDR104 mode support
- 2 × USB 3.0 ports, supporting simultaneous 5 Gbps operation
- 2 × USB 2.0 ports
- Gigabit Ethernet, with PoE+ support (requires separate PoE+ HAT, coming soon)
- 2 × 4-lane MIPI camera/display transceivers
- PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals
- Raspberry Pi standard 40-pin GPIO header
- Real-time clock (RTC)
- Power button
67 Comments on Raspberry Pi Foundation Launches Raspberry Pi 5
It's always been one of the big drawbacks of the RPi.
Ethernet I'm sure they'll have figured out as well as some of the other things their xinese counterparts are struggling with, but there are still issues with the platform that are unlikely to ever be resolved, unless Broadcom decides to open up their Videocore. It's by far the biggest complaint about the platform as well.Doesn't make it a 5 W computer though and the idle power of most Arm chips is sub 1 W.
That said, from what I've seen so far, it appears that the RPi foundation has a lot of power optimisation left to do.That's headless or a screenshot from the RPi 5? Throwing that up with no context ells us nothing.
Is this was to remain a low cost tinkering platform, not that many.Yeah, I'm not going to watch a video. Did it do anything advanced with the GPU or any interface at 6 W or just running pure CPU compute benchmarks?
I've been involved in a couple of AllWinner and Rockchip based projects and the software side is not mature at all.
It really comes down to the hardware needs, but companies like STMicro is now seemingly taking over the low power, low cost but half decent software support side of things with their STM32MP1 family of chips. At least for those that don't need video playback or 3D graphics support.
For the use cases you mentioned, I'd say it's a vastly superior solution. However, it's not as readily available and requires some work to get the software up and running in most cases.
Tom's is seeing around 7 W power draw when stress testing the CPU.
www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-5
All that matters is how fast you can MAKE it
This isn't so much insulting as it is just plain stupid.
:)Sadly the 3.5 audio jack had gone sadly it still has those micro HDMI ports.:( And who uses two screens with the PIo_OI thought USB3 ports were always 5gbo_OIt has been a long time coming do you think it was worth the wait?Anything you were expecting to get on it?Thats more expense :( There are so many single board computers about.But they are limited by not being able to run as many Os,s on them as the PI.:(If they were i would try one of them.:) Ones that sell for less than £100.I take it you want be buying one
[USER=7058]Assimilator[/USER]. :laugh:
[USER=190589]Icon Charlie[/USER] :) If i had a teacher like him when i was at school i might have learnt something.Love his sence of humour Mr Scissors
and Stanly the knife :laugh:
You left out Stanly the knife.:laugh:www.zdnet.com/article/no-there-wont-be-a-raspberry-pi-5-in-2023-and-heres-why/
I guess the supply chain recovered better than they expected?
One of the tech media sites, maybe Tom’s Hardware points out that video playback has been Raspberry Pi’s Achilles heel and version 5 has not solved this shortcoming.
You are better off getting a cheap (~$150) PC with an Intel CPU (like N95 or N100) which will handle video playback without issue and of course provide broad compatibility with standard desktop applications.
I like my RPi4 but it is a poor choice as a goto desktop PC. I ran Kodi via LibreELEC for a while on it but gave up and replaced it with a Beelink Mini S12 (Intel N95).