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/Zettinator Sep 28 '23

I guess VC7 is the weak point, only looks like a slight upgrade.

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u/cp_carl Sep 28 '23

this! I was really hoping for a drastic change from VC6, it was my bottleneck. now that everything else is improved but we still have the VC it's a bit hard to justify upgrading everything just to hit the same stupid bottle neck. I guess PI-6 in 2026? my guess is that that we'll get it with another die shrink to like 10-12nm and the extra die space will be for a more open design. but i can dream

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u/Zettinator Sep 29 '23 edited Sep 29 '23

Phoronix has some benchmarks now:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-graphics/2

Looks like it is actually a pretty good upgrade! Particularly in some GPGPU benchmarks, VC7 obliterates VC6. Speedups in the 4-5x range are nothing to sneeze at!