Raspberry Pi 5 Announced Today
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For those who don't want to read all of the details...
Basically everything from CPU to RAM to GPU is 2x - 3x higher performance than the RP4 from 2018.
Support hats will be available directly from RP for both PoE+ power (no need for external power on these!!) and, drumroll, for M.2 NVMe drives. Meaning you can really use this as a real computer like never before. Lack of native M.2 support was the killer of the RP4 generation.
An RP4 with NVMe would have made it a reasonable desktop system. Without it, it was hard to do anything requiring drive performance of any sort. With more than double the performance across the "board" and NVMe support, this is a very, very powerful workstation.
Active cooling is now semi-standard to accommodate all of this, too.
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@JaredBusch said in Raspberry Pi 5 Announced Today:
@scottalanmiller Who cares? Did they address not having the chips to make the 4 in any kind of quantity that makes it available for purchase?
Yes, they moved a ton of their production in house. It's a big deal that they are using more of their own stuff. Won't address everything, but a good move in the right direction.
Also no COVID going on, so hopefully the demand won't be so spiky.
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I have used the RPi 4 heavily. The only limitation I ran into that forced me to use a PC is video feed when I was doing planetary astrophotography. It couldn't keep up with the FPS and dropped most of the frames. It was such a bummer.
Otherwise, they are great.
I wonder if #5 would be able to?
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But will it actually be available…
Supply has been so bad, I’ve moved things away from using one.
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@scottalanmiller Can it run little proxie server with sim card support?
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I'm very jazzed about Pi 5. Fingers crossed there will be a PiStation 2 case!
Here's the PiStation1 case. Pi4 can basically emulate every game system up to PS1. This things was TOO COOL and I couldn't pass it up! I love it! PiStation2 for Pi5 would be perfect!
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@IThomeboy80 said in Raspberry Pi 5 Announced Today:
@scottalanmiller Can it run little proxie server with sim card support?
SIM card? You'd need to find a SIM card hardware for that. It's a computer so it can do whatever you want. But does someone make the hardware to add onto it for that?
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@scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi 5 Announced Today:
@IThomeboy80 said in Raspberry Pi 5 Announced Today:
@scottalanmiller Can it run little proxie server with sim card support?
SIM card? You'd need to find a SIM card hardware for that. It's a computer so it can do whatever you want. But does someone make the hardware to add onto it for that?
Lots of add on boards are available to get cellular connectivity with Pi, Arduino, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi 5 Announced Today:
For those who don't want to read all of the details...
Basically everything from CPU to RAM to GPU is 2x - 3x higher performance than the RP4 from 2018.
Support hats will be available directly from RP for both PoE+ power (no need for external power on these!!) and, drumroll, for M.2 NVMe drives. Meaning you can really use this as a real computer like never before. Lack of native M.2 support was the killer of the RP4 generation.
An RP4 with NVMe would have made it a reasonable desktop system. Without it, it was hard to do anything requiring drive performance of any sort. With more than double the performance across the "board" and NVMe support, this is a very, very powerful workstation.
Active cooling is now semi-standard to accommodate all of this, too.
Now if only I could get one - I have a need for two of these right now..
