Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O Review
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Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains.

The Raspberry Pi 5 is designed to deliver a 2~3x performance improvement over the Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi 5 features a quad-core Cortex-A76 processor that clocks up to 2.4GHz, compared to the four Cortex-A72 cores found in the Raspberry Pi 4 that only clocked up to 1.8GHz. The graphics are also much-improved with now having an 800MHz VideoCore VII graphics processor over the VideoCore VI graphics with the Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi 5 is capable of driving two 4K @ 60Hz displays and features 4K @ 60 HEVC decode hardware capabilities.

Also interesting with the Raspberry Pi 5 is that it features in-house silicon in the form of the RP1 “southbridge” used for much of the board’s I/O capabilities. This southbridge should yield faster USB I/O along with other I/O bandwidth upgrades like a doubling of the peak SD card performance. The Raspberry Pi 5 also features a single-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface for improved connectivity.

  • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
    92·
    9 months ago

    This is great news… for business customers, as they’re those are the only channels they’ll be available through.

    Well, unless you don’t mind spending $200-$400 per unit to scalpers, who magically never seem to run out of stock.

    • bery@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I can find a raspberry pi 4 set for like 80-90€, but it’s on AliExpress…

      • tacosplease@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        You sure it’s not a knock off being sold as the real thing? Or maybe it doesn’t matter if the hardware is the same.

  • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Genuinely stupid question, but can someone tell me how many 1080p HEVC/REMUX streams can I run on this with jellyfin? Either I can buy this or build a budget PC, but I’ve been out of the game for far too long to do the latter (the last one I built was when CSGO was a new thing lol).

      • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I run Jellyfin on a RPi 4. It works for me, but only because I use codecs (h264/265 for video, AAC for audio) that are definitely supported on my players (NVidia Shield TV and android phones). This leads to Jellyfin not touching the files and just providing them to the player. As soon as any codec doesn’t fit my client (for example OPUS audio) Jellyfin starts re-encoding the audio and remuxing the stream and the stream just fails.

        So yes: RPi4 is generally not able to run Jellyfin unless you have a very specific setup.

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Wow the foundation really hates the idea of putting reliable dependable storage on their device.

    Like would it kill you to have an M2 slot?

    • towerful@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      An M.2 makes it really difficult for a kid to pop the card out, plug it into a computer and flash it.
      I think RPI Foundation is still holding onto its education-targeted roots.

      I think the compute models are more targeted at the industrial/commercial side of requirements.
      And any homelab enthusiast would probably be better buying a cheap used/refurbished thin-client

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    There are many small DIY computers on the market now, not just Raspberry Pi.

    Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Asus Tinkerboard, …

    Those usually don’t have delivery issues.

    • bob@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Orange Pi delivery is only available via Ali Express or Amazon though.

      Stock does seems low on Raspberrys, but I picked up a pi 4 last week without issue.

    • besbin@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      depends on the availability of the board, which historically has not been that great, the street price is gonna be upward twice to three times more than listed price.

  • dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Can we get a usb-c port with data? And more power supply to the ports? I hate having to power hard disks with a separate cable.

    • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      Man I really want something in the full size form factor but with a CPU closer to a zero2, basically I want a pi3 modernised and cost optimised, not another more powerful pi.

      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        03·
        9 months ago

        Yeah I want a cheaper zero with less power use, very few of my projects come close to using all the zeros resources so if they could do similar spec cheaper and modernized it would be amazing.

        Maybe chuck on an ADC, power management for batteries, better usb power supply…

  • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
    01·
    9 months ago

    Obviously I got a RPi4 just a couple months ago, after struggling for 2-3 years… Well, crap.

    EDIT: at least the prices didn’t seem to have increases significantly over the previous version.

      • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        9 months ago

        Are you talking about RPi4 or RPi5? RP4 can be now found easily, at least in my region (Spain).