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Raspberry Pi Foundation today announced Raspberry Pi 5 — the latest version of its low-cost, credit card-sized computer. The new pocket computer comes with several new features and is the first device to sport the company’s in-house designed silicon, which is 2-3x times faster compared to its predecessor.
The Raspberry Pi 5 is powered by BCM2712, a 4-core 64-bit 4-core Arm Cortex-A76 chipset that runs at 2.4GHz. It supports cryptography extensions and has 512KB L2 cache per core, and 2MB shared L3 cache.
The newly announced device also comes with a VideoCore VII graphics card, which the company says offers significantly improved performance compared to the Raspberry Pi 4. The tiny machine has 2 HDMI ports that support 4K display output at up to 60 fps.
Raspberry Pi 5 also features 2x USB bandwidth that offers increased transfer speed and the ability to connect high-bandwidth external peripherals using the company’s RP1 silicon. You also get dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, Bluetooth Low Energy, 2 USB 3.0 ports, 2 USB 2.0 ports and a single lane PCIe 2.0 port that lets users connect NVMe and PCIe devices.
The company also announced an updated Raspberry Pi 5 case that can be purchased for $10. It comes with an integrated CFM fan and a heatsink. If you plan to continuously use the device for heavy workloads, Raspberry Pi says users have the option to purchase an Active Cooler for $5.
Lastly, the Raspberry Pi gets a new first-party operating system called Raspberry Pi OS, which is based on the latest version of Debian codenamed ‘Bookworm’.
Raspberry Pi 5 will launch in mid-October and is available in two variants — 4GB and 8GB, which are priced at $60 and $80, respectively.
