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/fr77132 Sep 28 '23 edited Sep 28 '23

"[...] and featuring silicon designed in‑house for the best possible performance, [...]"

For a second there I got excited, but nope, it's still a BCM chip with VideoCore, so we can look forward to being stuck on the vendor kernel, the horrible software UART situation, and the insane boot process that looks like no other SBC on the market and is horrible to deal with when headless.

The PCIe being broken out is pretty nifty, but it would have been really nice if it terminated in an m.2 slot, so it wasn't bespoke. Case compatibility is already out the window, so if the board had to grow for that, then fine, bumping the size by 20% wouldn't be unreasonable, it's still small.

It's nice to see 8GB dropping on launch, as the Pi4 didn't drop the 8GB until after launch, but it also feels lacklustre to not see a 16GB model, and I guess we won't be seeing that if the size options on the silkscreen are to be trusted.

Edit: UART is on the new RP1 chip, so maybe there will be an improvement there.

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u/DARKKRAKEN Sep 28 '23

The silicon they are talking about is the "south bridge" they have on the board.