Raspberry Pi 5

Raspberry Pi 5 has been released!

Raspberry Pi 5 is a higher-performance computer than Raspberry Pi 4. It promises to offer 2–3× the speed of the previous generation. The new board features silicon designed in‑house for the best possible performance. Raspberry Pi features a new quad core 2.4 GHz Cortex-A76 Arm CPU (in BCM2712 SoC), a new Southbridge that promises to improve USB 3 throughput and a new VideoCore VII GPU.

Key features include:

  • 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 claims to have two to three times the processing power of the Raspberry Pi 4, already a powerful single board computer. Available in 4 and 8GB RAM capacities (with 1 and 2GB models to come later), the Raspberry Pi 5 is the same basic size and shape as the Model 4 B, but adds a number of long-requested features such as a built-in real-time clock, a PCIe 2.0 connector and a power button.

There’s a slew of little improvements throughout the board, including a built-in fan header with mounting holes, faster and dual camera connectors and a microSD card reader that works with higher-speed cards. The device has dual HDMI ports, with each one having a 4K display output at frame rates of up to 60 fps, as well as support for HDR.

While the main system on a chip is still designed by Broadcom, the Raspberry Pi 5 is the first full-size Raspberry Pi that uses custom silicon — the RP1. This is a southbridge chip, meaning that it handles I/O functions and replaces some the functions that were previously handled by the main system on a chip. It also replaces most of the analog components of the main SoC: GPIO and associated low-speed peripherals, Ethernet MAC, MIPI CSI/DSI, analog TV.

Raspberry Pi 5 is coming coming in October 2023. At just $60 or $90 MSRP, the 4 and 8GB models are a mere $5 more than the same memory capacity SKUs of the Raspberry Pi 4. Upton said 100,000 units should be available at launch – scheduled by the end of October. The Raspberry Pi 5 will remain in production until 2035.

You will need the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS, Bookworm, for your Raspberry Pi 5. Bookworm will launch in mid-October.

Raspberry Pi 5 won’t fit the Raspberry Pi 4 Case. Raspberry Pi 5 is faster and more powerful than prior-generation Raspberry Pis, and like most general-purpose computers, it will perform best with active cooling in a Pi 5 case designed specifically for it. For powering this new computer, a high-quality 5V 5A USB-C power supply is needed (such as the new Raspberry Pi 27W USB-C Power Supply).

However, there is some bad news to stir into the pot. The audio and composite jack has been ditched. According to Pi supremo, Eben Upton, this was due to space constraints on the board. As for what users requiring composite functionality should do, Upton told us: “For composite video, you can see there is a pair of 0.1″ pads on the bottom edge.” “There’s isn’t a recommended solution for audio, other than to use either a USB audio device or HAT.”

Introducing Raspberry Pi 5 video:

The Raspberry Pi 4 is not going anywhere and will still remain in production for a while.

More information:

Raspberry Pi 5
https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/

Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/

Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers
The first new flagship Pi in four years was worth the wait.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-5

Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed
No longer super-cheap, but boasts better graphics and swifter storage
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/28/raspberry_pi_5_revealed/

The Raspberry Pi 5 uses the company’s own chip designs
It will be available in October for at least $60.
https://www.engadget.com/the-raspberry-pi-5-uses-the-companys-own-chip-designs-061316561.html

Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O
https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-benchmarks

The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23889238/raspberry-pi-5-specs-availability-pricing

The Raspberry Pi 5 is here and looks yummier than ever
It’s the first full-size Raspberry Pi with custom silicon
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/raspberry-pi-5/

Video links:

Introducing Raspberry Pi 5

The Raspberry Pi 5 Is Here! Hands On With The Fastest Pi Ever!

Raspberry Pi 5

Raspberry Pi 5: EVERYTHING you need to know

154 Comments

  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    For the first time, it’s going to be easier to add PCI Express peripherals as the Raspberry Pi team exposes a new single-lane PCIe 2.0 interface. You will have to get a HAT extension (Hardware Attached on Top) or an adapter to take advantage of that interface though. Similarly, power-over-Ethernet is supported through a separate HAT.
    https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/raspberry-pi-5/

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  2. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Overclocking computer systems is a fun way to extract some free performance, or at least see how far you can push the hardware before you run into practical limitations. The newly released Raspberry Pi 5 with BCM2712 SoC is no exception here, with Tom’s Hardware having a go at seeing how far both the CPU and GPU in the SoC can be pushed….

    OVERCLOCKING RASPBERRY PI 5’S SOC TO 3 GHZ AND 1 GHZ GPU
    https://hackaday.com/2023/10/01/overclocking-raspberry-pi-5s-soc-to-3-ghz-and-1-ghz-gpu/?fbclid=IwAR2ig8PQMJDwQkD9h1dsGNDmrLIuneqUlPaF7cMiwBlua0C_WO-f7LE7wGQ

    The BCM2712’s quad Cortex-A76 CPU is normally clocked at 2.4 GHz and the VideoCore VII GPU at 800 MHz. By modifying some settings in the /boot/config.txt configuration file these values can be adjusted.

    In order to verify that an overclock was stable, the Stressberry application was used, which fully loads the CPU cores. Here something like a combination of stress-ng and glxgears could also be used, to stress both the CPU and GPU. With the official actively cooled heatsink the CPU reached a temperature of 74°C with a whole board power usage of about 10 Watts. At idle this dropped to 3 Watts at 46°C.

    This probably means that increasing the CPU clock may be beneficial, but OCing the GPU could be futile without also OCing the RAM frequency, if at all possible.

    Realistically, the Raspberry Pi SoCs never were speed monsters, with even the Raspberry Pi 4B’s SoC being beaten handily in 2020 by a budget dual-core Intel CPU. The current Intel Alder-Lake-N-based N100 SoC has a 6 Watt TDP and boosts up to 3.4 GHz while its Xe-LP-based iGPU (with AV1 decoding support) makes for a decent gaming experience within a ~16 Watt power envelope. Clearly, any OCing of the Raspberry Pi boards is more for the challenge of it, but then so is running the latest Intel CPU at 10 GHz with liquid nitrogen cooling.

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  3. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Raspberry Pi 5 – Everything You Need To Know!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_QPM9xV_sw

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  4. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Raspberry Pi 5 First Look! This New Pi Is Hands Down The Fastest So Far
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkI4OaTx7u4

    The Raspberry Pi 5 Is Here and we have a faster Cortex A76 2.4GHz CPU, A New VideoCore VII GPU up To 8GB of ram and Better iO. This Is The Fastest Raspberry Pi Ever!

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  5. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Emulation On The Raspberry Pi 5 Is Already Really Good! Pi5 EMU Testing
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSzncPkGkX8

    In this video we tae alook at some emulation on the new Raspberry pi 5! N64, PSP, Dreamcast and GBA for now but as soon as RetroPie and Batocera is ready for the raspberry pi 5 we will be testing that also.

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  6. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Raspberry Pi 5. Dual monitor Desktop and Gaming test
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2_Z-t7ElQw

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  7. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Raspberry Pi has released a draft datasheet for the RP1 I/O controller, a major new feature of the upcoming Raspberry Pi 5 and, technically speaking, the first in-house silicon the company ever started designing.

    Raspberry Pi Releases Draft Datasheet for the RP1, Its Smart I/O Chip Driving the Raspberry Pi 5
    Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton hints at additional features yet to be announced.
    https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-releases-draft-datasheet-for-the-rp1-its-smart-i-o-chip-driving-the-raspberry-pi-5-640c03499cdd?fbclid=IwAR0OdkrUQkMpzTPUmt5Uh_w9Y909TZMXWxwECBuT_991JE_Z399bGwIsjCA

    Raspberry Pi has released a draft datasheet for the RP1 input/output (I/O) controller, a major new feature of the upcoming Raspberry Pi 5 and, technically speaking, the first in-house silicon the company ever started designing.

    “Raspberry Pi 5 is the most complicated, and expensive, engineering program we’ve ever undertaken at Raspberry Pi, spanning over seven years, and costing on the order of $25 million,” claims Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton of the soon-to-launch single-board computer. “It’s also our first flagship product to make use of silicon designed in-house here at Raspberry Pi, in the form of the RP1 I/O controller.”

    That RP1, which despite launching considerably after the also-designed-in-house RP2040 microcontroller on the Raspberry Pi Pico range was actually the first project for Raspberry Pi’s in-house chip design team, was added to the Raspberry Pi 5 in order to offload “low-speed” peripherals from the main system-on-chip (SoC) — primarily so that the general-purpose input/output (GPIO) header could remain operating at a 3.3V logic level and enjoy 5V tolerance even while the SoC drops to 1.8V logic.

    The RP1 handles the GPIO header, the MIPI Camera Serial Interface and Display Serial Interface (CSI and DSI) ports, the USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports, the gigabit Ethernet port, the analogue video output — no longer available on the 3.5mm AV jack, excised to make room for the twin CSI/DSI ports, but still present on an unpopulated pin header — and other low-speed peripherals required to match the functionality of a Raspberry Pi 4′s BCM2711 SoC.

    That’s only part of the story, though: the draft datasheet released today dives into some of the other features of the RP1 chip, including the presence of two Arm Cortex=M3 processor cores, an eight-channel direct memory access (DMA) controller, three integrated fractional-N phase-locked loops (PLLs), a four-channel 12-bit-resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC), 64kB of shared static RAM (SRAM), and built-in timebase generators which can be used to pace DMA events or debouncing GPIO.

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  8. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Raspberry Pi releases RP1 peripheral controller datasheet and block diagram
    https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/10/07/raspberry-pi-rp1-datasheet-block-diagram/?fbclid=IwAR2IPdG0AWLmPCLvaK-c0_vs5GaWB6S1gWCFxsB0VCEy11kHfz9VClkm-Kc

    The Raspberry Pi 5 was recently introduced with the Broadcom BCM2712 CPU and the RP1 chip handling I/Os designed in-house by the Raspberry Pi just like they did for the RP2 (RP2040) microcontroller, and we now have more details about the Raspberry Pi RP1 including a (draft) datasheet and a block diagram.

    The RP2040 came out before the RP1 peripheral controller as the design for the latter started 7 years ago with a total R&D budget to develop the Raspberry Pi 5 of around 25 million dollars. While at launch, we knew the RP1 handled some peripherals, doubled USB bandwidth with two separate USB 3.0 hosts, and embedded higher speed MIPI interfaces, it was unclear whether some of the other connections came from the BCM2712 or RP1 chips. But we now do know with the release of the datasheet.

    Raspberry Pi RP1 key features and specifications:

    MCU – Dual-arm Cortex-M3 microcontroller with 64KB SRAM, TCM, bootROM for platform configuration and management
    Host interface – PCIe 2.0 x4 bus
    MIPI camera/display interfaces
    2x MIPI CSI-2 camera controllers and 2x MIPI DSI display controllers connected to 2x shared 4-lane MIPI DPHY transceiver PHYs for up to 8 Gbps bandwidth.
    Each camera controller incorporates an image signal processor front-end (ISP-FE) which pre-processes incoming image data.
    Possible configuration include 2x cameras, 2x displays, or a one display + one camera
    Networking – Gigabit Ethernet MAC (RGMII)
    USB – 2x XHCI controllers each connected to a single USB 3.0 PHY and a single USB 2.0 PHY for up to 10 Gbps total bandwidth (5Gbps per XHCI controller)
    GPIOs
    28x GPIO pins
    5V tolerant, and 3.3V-failsafe (supports a voltage of up to 3.63V applied when RP1 is unpowered)
    GPIO alternate functions
    Storage – eMMC/SDIO bus with a 4-bit interface
    Display – 24-bit DPI output
    Audio – 2x I2S, stereo PWM audio output (AUDIO_OUT)
    5x UART, 6x SPI, 4x I2C
    4-channel PWM output
    Interrupt generation from pin level or edge transitions
    Clocks
    1x Clock Producer instance
    1x Clock Consumer instance
    General-purpose clock input and output (GPCLK)
    RIO – Registered IO interface to allow the host processor to manipulate GPIOs
    Misc
    8-channel DMA Controller (DMAC) for servicing low-speed peripherals.
    3x integrated PLLs consisting of 2 fractional-N PLLs to support the generation of independent video and
    audio clocks, and 1x integer PLL to generate system clocks.
    A five-input successive-approximation analog-to-digital (ADC) converter with 12-bit resolution at 500kSPS with
    9.5 ENOB (Effective number of bits), 4 external inputs, one internal temperature sensor
    Dimension – 20mm² die
    Process – TSMC’s 40LP (Note: the BCM2712 is manufactured with a 16nm process)

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  9. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Raspberry Pi viedään pörssiin
    https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/15416-raspberry-pi-viedaeaen-poerssiin

    Maailman suosituin rakentelijoiden korttitietokone Raspberry Pi viedään pörssiin, sanoo korttitekniikkaan kehittävän säätiön ja yrityksen toimitusjohtaja Eben Upton. Yrityksen markkina-arvoksi on arvioitu noin puoli miljardia dollaria.

    Viime vuonna puolijohdepula rokotti Raspberry Pi -korttien myyntiä niin, että asiakkaille saatiin vain viisi miljoonaa korttia. 188 miljoonan dollarin liikevaihto tuotti voittoa 20 miljoonaa dollarilla.

    Eben Upton arvioi, että tänä vuonna saadaan myytyä 7 miljoonaa korttia. Myyntiä vauhdittaa vastikään julkistettu 5. sukupolven kortti, joka kasvatti reilusti kortin suorituskykyä

    Raspberry Pi Foundation on voittoa tavoittelematon säätiö, joka omistaa Raspberry Pi Ltd:n.

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  10. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Why The RP1 Is The Most Important Product Raspberry Pi Have Ever Made
    https://hackaday.com/2023/10/16/why-the-rp1-is-the-most-important-product-raspberry-pi-have-ever-made/

    Where do we think the secret sauce lies in the Pi 5? In the RP1 all-in-one PCIe peripheral chip of course, the chip which provides most of the interfacing on the new board.

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  11. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Pääkirjoitus: Tiktokin käytön rajoituksiakin pohdittava – sovellus muovaa aivojasi, vaikket sitä huomaa https://www.is.fi/paakirjoitus/art-2000009961941.html

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  12. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Arm has announced an investment in Raspberry Pi — acquiring “a minority stake” in the popular single-board computer maker.

    Arm Invests in Raspberry Pi, Acquires a “Minority Stake” of the Popular Single-Board Computer Maker
    https://www.hackster.io/news/arm-invests-in-raspberry-pi-acquires-a-minority-stake-of-the-popular-single-board-computer-maker-495d1b78c390

    Arm joins Sony in picking up a slice of the Pi for an undisclosed sum, as rumblings of a potential initial public offering quiet.

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  13. Tomi Engdahl says:

    The Raspberry Pi 5 is the new wunderkind single-board computer on the block, so new in fact that users are still finding out its quirks. One of those quirks is a surprisingly high power consumption when powered down, despite halting the SoC it leaves the power on and consumes over a watt even in standby. [Jeff Geerling has a solution, ……

    REDUCE THE PI 5’S POWER CONSUMPTION AT A STROKE
    https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/reduce-the-pi-5s-power-consumption-at-a-stroke/?fbclid=IwAR0AvGBvoBxu-pyo7GSHQ2Kfxi_Ssb8uOPSJUCceDLE9FndNXvw4_tfYn6c

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  14. Tomi Engdahl says:

    https://www.hackster.io/news/jeff-geerling-suggests-a-firmware-setting-that-drops-the-raspberry-pi-5-s-vampire-power-draw-6fe92438938d?fbclid=IwAR2-HfV9sBv6ppmIb4ZRBkGHCdGJlMo58A4XT8QCVS3X8kf0UnrZ4Q6U4DM

    Jeff Geerling Suggests a Firmware Setting That Drops the Raspberry Pi 5′s “Vampire” Power Draw
    Drop the Raspberry Pi 5′s power draw while ostensibly “off” from 1.2W to 0.01W with this one simple setting.

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  15. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Arturo182 has beaten Raspberry Pi to the punch with the first Compute Module 4-compatible Raspberry Pi 5 adaptation — functional, but not exactly as compact as a true Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5.

    Arturo182 Beats Raspberry Pi to the Punch, Converts the Raspberry Pi 5 Into the “Unofficial CM5″
    Clever interstitial board and some adapters, plus plenty of FFCs, provide a CM4-compatible Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 — of sorts.
    https://www.hackster.io/news/arturo182-beats-raspberry-pi-to-the-punch-converts-the-raspberry-pi-5-into-the-unofficial-cm5-40c1077e683f?fbclid=IwAR1RpxrBkBH8IJonMr8O2eSKFIkTlSEtBqehDYWMLLEGnQ8gKptr76Tm7NA

    “The Raspberry Pi 5 has been available for 2 weeks now, and still no CM5 [Compute Module 5]? Sorry, this will not stand,” Arturo182 writes of the project. “Time for me to take matters into my own hands! Introducing, the (not really) CM5! The power of RPi 5 in the CM4 form-factor.”

    That’s where Arturo182′s “Unofficial RPi CM5″ board comes in. Designed as an interstitial board, the adapter sits between a device which expects a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 or compatible SOM and the full-size Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer — adapting signals from one to the other, and providing that extra computational oomph ahead of a true Compute Module 5 launch.

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  16. Tomi Engdahl says:

    EDATEC has launched two cases for the new Raspberry Pi 5, designed to lessen the likelihood of thermal throttling without the noise or reliability concerns of an active fan — cooling the device entirely passively.

    EDATEC Aims to Tame the Heat with Its New Passive Cooling Cases for the Raspberry Pi 5
    https://www.hackster.io/news/edatec-aims-to-tame-the-heat-with-its-new-passive-cooling-cases-for-the-raspberry-pi-5-b8eb12804185?fbclid=IwAR3Mg94FwD4FHIlRauMkIdpeDaKynn_dPYrLnFvg5FhF97mME9f38U6nLXA

    CNC-milled aluminum cases offer a silent alternative to the official Active Cooler or fan-equipped case options.

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  17. Tomi Engdahl says:

    EDATEC Aims to Tame the Heat with Its New Passive Cooling Cases for the Raspberry Pi 5
    CNC-milled aluminum cases offer a silent alternative to the official Active Cooler or fan-equipped case options.
    https://www.hackster.io/news/edatec-aims-to-tame-the-heat-with-its-new-passive-cooling-cases-for-the-raspberry-pi-5-b8eb12804185

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  18. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Pineberry Pi Unveils the First Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe Add-Ons: The HatDrive! Family
    Company beats Raspberry Pi to the punch with a top-mounted HAT and bottom-mounted “HAB” design — and boasts of PCIe Gen. 3 support, too.
    https://www.hackster.io/news/pineberry-pi-unveils-the-first-raspberry-pi-5-pcie-add-ons-the-hatdrive-family-9d6ab33fbd9c

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  19. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton has hinted that a successor to the company’s wildly popular RP2040 dual-core microcontroller may be on the way — and that the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 will launch in 2024, with “a high degree of commonality” with the earlier Compute Module 4.

    Eben Upton Hints at an RP2040 Successor, Promises a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 in 2024
    https://www.hackster.io/news/eben-upton-hints-at-an-rp2040-successor-promises-a-raspberry-pi-compute-module-5-in-2024-ec331994aca3?fbclid=IwAR17p2cYb1S6t7MSYrUPWd0Bl7PyMkkhDtZjU3ul-mbTY-cp5fBNrEM2nEY

    “We know what people don’t like [and] what people do like,” Upton says, “and we have a chip team.”

    Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton has hinted that a successor to the company’s wildly popular RP2040 dual-core microcontroller may be on the way — and that the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 will launch in 2024, with “a high degree of commonality” with the earlier Compute Module 4.

    Speaking at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam event this weekend, Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton put numbers to the flow of new Raspberry Pi 5 boards which is still struggling to keep up with sky-high demands. “Today, [we] are making about 10,000 [Raspberry] Pi 5s per day, out of a total of 40,000 Pis per day,” Upton told attendees, according a summary posted to Mastodon by Jonathan Pallant.

    All of those devices, the company has previously promised, are ring-fenced for makers and tinkerers with industrial buyers being pushed back to 2024 for their stock — a way of making up for the shortages which had previously plagued the Raspberry Pi 4, with industrial buyers being given priority during the component shortage crisis.

    More interesting than production numbers, though, were Upton’s comments on the low-cost Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core microcontroller and the Raspberry Pi Pico board on which it sits. “We know what people don’t like about [RP]2040,” Upton admitted at the event, “the [Arm Cortex-]M0+ [architecture], could have more RAM, could have more GPIO [General-Purpose Input/Output], and we know what people do like — the PIO [Programmable Input/Output blocks]… and we have a chip team.”

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  20. Tomi Engdahl says:

    An AMD Polaris GPU is the first to successfully show a desktop and run 3D-accelerated games on the Raspberry Pi 5′s PCIe lane.

    Jeff Geerling Demonstrates 2D, 3D Acceleration on the Raspberry Pi 5 — with an AMD RX 460
    An AMD Polaris GPU is the first to successfully show a desktop and run 3D-accelerated games on the Raspberry Pi 5′s PCIe lane.
    https://www.hackster.io/news/jeff-geerling-demonstrates-2d-3d-acceleration-on-the-raspberry-pi-5-with-an-amd-rx-460-c2bc4ac880bf?fbclid=IwAR1IrpzXIcRrRV2hYRuIRyq4LK9dR4FLDaRnPmPsa2pqwx4_MVlPOHqx-vc

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