Raspberry 5 design
It is my pleasure to share here on the blog with our dear readers the long-awaited news of the launch of the Raspberry Pi 5, which arrived just over four years after the creation of the Raspberry Pi 4 board and which among the main reasons for the great delay that it had, we can mention the COVID-19 pandemic and all the problems that it all generated.
Through a blog post, The Raspberry Pi Foundation has presented the launch of the new generation of the plate "Raspberry Pi 5" which is expected to go on sale at the end of October priced at $60 for the 4GB RAM variant and $80 for the 8GB RAM variant.
For comparison, the Raspberry Pi 4 board with 2 GB of RAM sold for $35, 4 GB of RAM for $55, and 8 GB of RAM for $75, but the Raspberry Pi 5 board is said to have 2-3 times the performance of the Raspberry Pi 4.
On the part of the technical specifications of the Raspberry Pi 5, the following is mentioned:
- Broadcom BCM2712 2,4 GHz SoC based on a 76-core 4-bit Arm Cortex-A64 CPU. The processor is manufactured using 16nm process technology, supports expansion to accelerate cryptographic operations, is equipped with a 2 KB L512 cache per core and a 3 MB shared L2 cache. The chip is specially designed for the Raspberry Pi 5 board and is capable of handling typical workstation loads in terms of performance. When designing the board, the concept of chiplets was used. For comparison, the Raspberry Pi 4 board came with a BCM2711 SoC based on a 72-core 4-bit Arm Cortex-A64 CPU, manufactured using 28nm process technology and running at 1,5GHz.
- 800 MH VideoCore VII GPUz with support for OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan 1.2 graphics APIs (Raspberry Pi 4 came with VideoCore VI GPU).
- 2 Micro HDMI ports with support for HDR and 4Kp60 quality with simultaneous output through two ports. Initial delivery of fully open source drivers for Mesa announced. The Raspberry Pi 4 had two Micro HDMI ports, supporting 4Kp60 quality output when output from one port and 4Kp30 quality output when output from two ports.
- Built-in hardware decoder for HEVC/H.265 video, supporting 4Kp60 video decoding.
- 4 or 8 GB of RAM (LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM). Memory performance is more than double that of the Raspberry Pi 4 (4267MT/s vs. 2000MT/s). A version with 16 GB of RAM is expected in the future.
- Wi-Fi 802.11ac compatible with 2,4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies.
- Bluetooth 5.0/Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
- MicroSD slot Supports SDR104 high speed mode.
- Two USB 3.0 ports with 5Gbps bandwidth and two USB 2.0 ports.
- Gigabit Ethernet with PoE support (Power over Ethernet).
- Two 4-line MIPI transceivers for camera and screen (double MIPI CSI/DSI connector).
- One PCIe 2.0 slot (due to the need to fit the slot in a miniature form factor, a non-standard connector was used).
- Source of 5V/5A power via USB-C. Due to higher power consumption, power supplies for older Raspberry Pi boards may not be suitable; A 27W power supply is recommended. It is also recommended to use a case with a cooler for active cooling.
- GPIO typical 40-pin Raspberry Pi.
- RTC (real-time clock) with independent battery.
- Power button.
- The board size and form factor have not changed and remain the same as the Raspberry Pi “B” boards.
It is worth mentioning that the next version of the Raspberry Pi operating system based on Debian 12, which is scheduled to be released in mid-October and can be used as the operating system on the Raspberry Pi 5.
Finally if you are interested in knowing more about it, you can check the details in the following link