Today was announced the upcoming Raspberry Pi 5. It was only announced because we will see it released in late October. Priced at $60 for the 4GB variant and $80 for the 8GB sibling (plus local taxes), nearly every feature of the platform has been upgraded.
Raspberry Pi 5 comes with new features, is more than twice as fast as its predecessor, and is the first Raspberry Pi computer to feature silicon designed in-house in Cambridge, UK.
Specifications
- 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 x 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
To break tradition, the manufacturers announced the Raspberry Pi 5 before the product hit the shelves. The units are available for pre-order today from many authorized partners and resellers. Shipments of the first units are expected to begin by the end of October.
