From the beginning, Raspberry Pi’s mission has been to offer capable computers to beginners and experts alike, at a remarkably affordable price. That doesn’t change with the company’s latest device. Yes, after years of processor shortages and supply chain disruption, the Raspberry 5 is nearly here, and you can preorder it today.
The company announced Raspberry Pi 5 on Thursday, with an expected release at the end of October. The new Pi comes in either two variants: A 4GB model for $60, or a 8GB model for $80. Raspberry Pi claims this new computer is upgraded in virtually every way, stating it is “over twice as fast as its predecessor.”
The company says Raspberry Pi 5 has between two and three times the CPU and GPU performance when compared to the latest Raspberry Pi 4, which itself ended up 20% faster than the OG Raspberry Pi 4. In addition, you can expect roughly twice the memory and I/O bandwidth, as well as Raspberry Pi silicon on a mainstream Raspberry Pi device for the first time in the company’s history.
Raspberry Pi 5 specs
- 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU
- VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2
- Dual 4Kp60 HDMI® display output
- 4Kp60 HEVC decoder
- 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 5Gbps 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
- Power button
The Raspberry Pi 5 is powered by three new chips: First, the BCM2712, a 16nm application processor, with a 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 processor, as well as 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache. It can even drive two 4K 60p HDMI displays.
The RP1 chip controls I/O for Raspberry Pi 5, which offers two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports, a gigabit ethernet controller, two four-lane MIPI transceivers (camera and display output), in addition other useful I/O. Finally, the DA9091, which is Raspberry Pi 5’s power-management IC. It can provide 20 amps of current power to the system. Those coming from Raspberry Pi 4 will be happy to see dual-band 802.11ac wifi and Bluetooth 5.0 with BLE support, as well.
How to preorder Raspberry Pi 5
Unlike previous Raspberry Pi devices, you can preorder the Raspberry Pi 5 right now, before the device is even available. Raspberry Pi has put its new device up for preorder from authorized resellers, such as Autobotic, Botland, and Chicago Electronic Distributors. Head to the official list of resellers, check that they’re carrying the Raspberry Pi 5, and preorder yours today.
If you subscribe to print editions of The MagPi or HackSpace, Raspberry Pi will even send you a single-use code for priority access to Raspberry Pi 5 hardware. You can also subscribe today to take advantage of the “Priority Boarding,” as Raspberry Pi calls it.