Raspberry Pi 5: Enhanced Performance and Self-Developed Silicon Chip – Available Now for $60

2023-09-29 14:39:19

Four years following the release of the Raspberry Pi 4, the Raspberry Pi 5 arrived. The microcomputer was enhanced with a performance increase and a self-developed silicon chip. Despite the concerns surrounding this year’s release, the Raspberry Pi 5 has arrived. The latest version of the microcomputer includes some significant improvements and can be purchased for a starting price of just $60. In addition to offering better performance than its predecessor, this is the first Raspberry Pi to contain its own silicon chip developed by a team in Cambridge. For the past 4 years, the Raspberry Pi 4 has been the top model of the product family, but the 2019 hardware is now being tested by new and more demanding tasks, so it was just time for an update. Although the Foundation has launched similar products over the years, none of them were designed to replace the Pi 4. Meanwhile, the market did not stop. The recently released Umbrella Home, for example, has already overtaken Alaptívány’s product, which has been on the market for years, in terms of performance. The new device is further popularized by the fact that it can run a Bitcoin node. This way, we can contribute to the decentralization of the network for less than $100. What can Raspberry Pi 5 do? The Raspberry Pi 5 is powered by a 64-bit, quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor running at 2.4GHz, giving it a two- to threefold increase in performance over the Pi 4 four years ago. The device also includes an 800 MHz VideoCore VII graphics chip, which the Raspberry Pi Foundation says provides a “significant improvement” in graphics performance. Key features of the device include a 4Kp60 HEVC decoder, dual-band 802.11ac Wifi and Bluetooth 5.0. It also boasts a high-speed microSD card interface, multiple USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet PoE+ support, a PCIe 2.0 x1 interface, a standard GPIO header, a real-time clock and, best of all, a power button. It also includes two four-band 1.5 Gbps MIPI transmitters, which can be used to connect up to two cameras or displays. A new single-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface is also available, offering support for high bandwidths. However, the Raspberry Pi Foundation notes that you’ll still need a separate adapter, such as an M.2 HAT (Hardware Attached on Top), to take advantage of this. A staff member of The Verge has already tried the new device. It claims to be significantly faster than the Pi 3 and Pi 4. According to him, the device “gets quite hot”, but this can be easily remedied with an active cooling element. The Raspberry Pi 5 comes with several RAM options. The 4GB version costs $60 and the 8GB version costs $80. This makes it slightly more expensive than its predecessor, which costs $55 for 4GB of RAM and $75 for 8GB. The new Pi 5 will be available for purchase before the end of October.
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