Raspberry Pi 5

Surprise! Details of the Raspberry Pi 5 are out, and while you can't get your hands on a board just yet, you can bask in the new features and improvements.

Also: How to set up your first Raspberry Pi

At the top of them is a new chip, designed in?house in Cambridge, UK. 

The Broadcom BCM2712quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 processor is three generations ahead of the one used in the Raspberry Pi 4, and is not only faster than the old chip -- between two and three times faster -- but it also consumes less power, which in turn should mean it runs cooler. 

Raspberry Pi 5 tech specs

• 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
• LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM (4GB and 8GB available)
• Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 5.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
• High-speed microSD card interface with SDR104 mode support
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