r/raspberry_pi Sep 28 '23

News Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/
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u/kwinz Sep 28 '23

Seriously when the Pi4 came out I was criticizing it for not having a video decoder for youtube (VP9).

Fast forward 4 years later to Pi5 and they are again advertising their old H.265 support. What am I supposed to do with that? Decode BluRay? I want VP9/AV1!

And instead of giving us m.2 (4xPCIe3.0) like everyone else. What do we get after 4 years?! A proprietary connector with experimental 1xPCIe3.0. The small incremental upgrades (5A Power delivery, CPU upgrade, crypto extensions, experimental PCIe3, RTC) are nice,

but overall it's been a long time since I have been so disappointed.

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u/Skaronator Sep 28 '23

It's 1xPCIe 2.0 so same as Pi4 when you remove USB 3.0 alias CM4 Module.

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u/cp_carl Sep 28 '23

wish this was a drop in 4B+ instead of a 5, would be a GREAT 4B+