5 Reasons Why Raspberry Pi 5 Matters

Excitement with the new Raspberry Pi 5

I have been using Raspberry Pi, ever since the beginning Raspberry Pi. In early versions, Raspberry Pi was not supporting wifi and bluetooth. That time, I customized it add external wifi, and battery module to work independently as a router, and conduct online tests.

Projects I Did with Raspberry Pi

• Exam Server: A wifi based server to conduct online exams. Added battery and wifi services externally.
• Tempreature Alert System: A small ciruit with the help of Raspberry Pi Pico, that beeps when the tempreature rises to a certain limit.
• Desktop Machine: Used as regular desktop machine, to practice programming
• Raspberry Pi Cluster: A Cluster of 8 Rasbperry pi machine to study the cluster mode softwares

What do I love about Raspberry Pi

Being a linux enthusiast, I was always curious how I could run my programs on such a small machine. Early versions of Raspberry Pi lacked Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and so on, but later versions added those missing features.

Currently, I don't use Raspberry Pi as a desktop environment, but I mostly prefer Raspberry Pi pico for doing small electronics projects.

What is exciting with Raspberry Pi 5?

New Processor

One of the top highlights of the Raspberry Pi 5 is its processor. The new Raspberry Pi Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU. It comes with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache. This processor give 2-3 times speed improvements over previous versions.

Enhanced Graphics

• VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2
• Dual 4Kp60 HDMI® display output with HDR support
• 4Kp60 HEVC decoder

Improved I/O

• Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi®
• Bluetooth 5.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
• microSD card slot, with support for high-speed SDR104 mode
• 2 × USB 3.0 ports, supporting simultaneous 5Gbps operation
• 2 × USB 2.0 ports
• Gigabit Ethernet, with PoE+ support (requires separate PoE+ HAT)

Other Noteworthy Improvements

• 2 × 4-lane MIPI camera/display transceivers
• PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals (requires separate M.2 HAT or other adapter). This allows much faster storage than microSD.
• 5V/5A DC power via USB-C, with Power Delivery support
• Raspberry Pi standard 40-pin header
• Real-time clock (RTC), powered from external battery. Earlier this needed external circuits/modules; now there is an official solution. It uses a rechargeable cell.
• Power button: missing in all previous versions. It should allow graceful shutdown, which has been a long-standing problem with Raspberry Pis.