Raspberry Pi 5 | Review, Performance & Benchmarks

the Raspberry Pi 5 is here our favorite singleboard computer has just gotten a major update with a ton of exciting new features and we have one right here so let's take a look [Music] our Pie Five still comes in its lovable credit card size but the board has been shuffled around a bit to host some new features so let's take a quick walkthrough of the new board first off the ethernet and the USB have been switched around again back to the original layout we saw the display and mipi connectors have been moved to the bottom right here as well as the poe hat connector and the four pole stereo audio headphone jack is no longer on the board this means we'll probably see very little compatibility with pi 4 cases but starting off our list of new additions is as always a new processor under the hood we have a cortex a76 CPU clocked at 2.4 gigahertz out of the box and a new video core 7 GPU at one gigahertz Raspberry Pi says that this will offer a considerable leap in performance and we will get into the nitty-gritty of that later with some benchmarks a very nice addition is this power button on the side here it still boots up like normally when plugged in exactly like the previous pies but not having to unplug and replay Target to turn it back on is a very nice and welcomed feature there are also some pin out terminals here if you wanted to use your own power button we also have these two jst connectors on the bottom here one is for an RTC battery to power the new onboard real-time clock meaning your pie can finally keep a track of time when it's powered off and offline very very nice the other one is for an always active dedicated uart connector and it's a nice little addition for debugging purposes as far as we're aware the 40 pin connector hasn't been touched So gpio based hats from the pi 4 should still work on the pi 5. next to it though we have a dedicated fan connector which pairs nicely to these new two heatsink mounting points and spoiler alert this board is probably going to make use of these we also now have a dedicated model indicator here or that might be a bit too small but you can now tell what size memory Pi 5 you have just at a glance speaking of memory the pi 5 only comes in the the same one two four and eight gigabyte sized models unfortunately no 16 gig or larger sized models very big news though is the new rp1 chip sitting right here I don't know if you can see it there's a little Raspberry Pi logo on it and as that suggests this is in-house manufactured silicon from Raspberry Pi themselves this new chip handles all the i o capabilities on the pi 5 and it seems to bring a decent Step Up in peripheral performance and functionality well that's a tongue twister a few major things of this new rp1 chip are the mipi connectors here previously the Pi had one for a camera and one for a display but they can now be used for both so the pi 5 can have two cameras or two displays they are a different connector as to what was on the pi 4 but adapter cables are available on a related note there is also some more custom Raspberry Pi silicon for the ISP inside the processor here it now allows a gigapixel a second throughput providing better camera image processing we still have our two USB 2.0 and 3.0 connectors but the rp1 chip reportedly allows for simultaneous 5 gigabit throughput on both of the USB 3.0s now something we will be jumping a bit more into later is the improved SD card performance which has greatly been increased thanks to it being handled by the rp1 Chip And I think that one of the most exciting features enabled by this custom i o controller is this pcie interface here the pi 5 now has a single Lane Gen 2 PCI interface which supports the new official m.2 hat and we are very excited to see what can come of this and the ways that the community are going to find to utilize it all an awesome very welcomed additions on the pi five some nice quality of life features like the power button and fan connector and some possibility expanding features like the pcie and dedicated uart connectors that we will be eagerly awaiting to see how they will be used alright some new flashy Hardware but let's get into some actual benchmarks we will be benching it against the pi 4 and if you want to see some more in-depth benching and comparisons check out our PI 4 versus Pi 5 video linked below so here is our Great Wall of benchmarks and as you can see in the synthetic CPU department just pure number crunching we saw about a 50 to 80 percent increase in processing power but our real world applications of compressing files image editing and web browsing saw somewhere between a two and three-fold increase in performance either way that cortex a76 is quick Off the Mark GPU benchmarks were about the same with rendering tests showing a doubling in performance and when we booted up open arena the open source Quake 3 Clone we've got a tripling of FPS over the pi 4. memory Benchmark was a bit of a doozy with the pi 5 coming in at about five times quicker than the four we don't know what's going going on there a bit more of that in the comparison video but it's fast in our Ram speed benchmarks and we can see a big leap in micro SD card performance with a doubling in sequential read and write speeds over the pi 4 and this has been a historical choke point of the pie so it's very nice to see that the pi 5 is somewhat on the ball with that finally in terms of boot times running Bookworm OS on both the pi 4 and the pi 5 we see that the pi 5 boots in just under 20 seconds wow that is way faster than the 35 seconds on the pi 4 and it this was so nice to use this board when it was just plugged in 20 seconds later it's on it was it's a fantastic experience again we have a more in-depth benchmarking video where we explain a bit more about what we did and also go over some addition little benchmarks but across all the tests I think it's safe to say that the ballpark in terms of performance increase that you'll see in this board is about at least two times again synthetic benchmarks are on the lower side of this but practicals were on the higher side of this in terms of General day-to-day usage though it also seems to be on the higher side the pi 5 just seems a lot more responsive in a desktop environment browsing and day-to-day activities this is personal opinion time here but I think the pi 5 is a feasible desktop experience for light day-to-day activities the pi 4 definitely could do it but there was some times when it was just a little bit too slow for my liking but the pi 5 was fast enough that I wouldn't get frustrated at using it every day whilst a stock Pi 4 had some issues with 720p 60fps YouTube playback the pi 5 had very little issues with 1080p 60f playback a few minor frame drops here and there but I would say it is a pretty smooth experience overall and it's something that will probably get better with software maturation and improved support using the pi 5 at 4K is actually quite a nice experience it was obviously a little slower than a 1080 or 1440p experience but it was way smoother than the four and that brings up another Point under the hood of the processor is an improved hvs and display pipeline meaning that the pi 5 now supports dual 4K 60 HDMI display outputs the pi 4 only supported dual 4k30 outputs and the user experience with this dual configuration on the pi 5 is usable nothing to write home about but the single 4K screen experience is obviously a much more better option but I don't know if I'd be using the Dual 4K for day-to-day desktop experiences but dual 1080p was quite a nice experience we've also mentioned the new Bookworm OS and although we're currently running an alpha version of it it is very nice the pi 4 seems to be a tadmill responsive when running on it and there are a few nice little features here and there like this cool alt tab animation Firefox now comes pre-installed on it and you can now change the resolution without restarting it we didn't get a chance to really deep deep dive into it but from a surface look just a few nice little additions here and there so overall a very fast board and we think this roughly doubling off performance is a big win for the pi five at the cost of this increased processing power is yet another creep in power requirements though a bit more of a jump this time than the last with the recommended input power increasing to 5 volt 5 amps up from the 5 volt 3 amps of the pi 4. it booted fine on the pi 4 power supply and seemed to be perfectly usable on it but we didn't do any serious benchmarking on it of course you want to power the pi 5 with the new official 27 watt power delivery enabled power supply and a cool new feature of this is that when the pi 5 detects it it allows a total of 1.6 amps to be drawn from the USB port this is up from the default 600 milliamps meaning that there is plenty of power available for your USB ssds that is if you need them with the new pcie interface we performed a power draw test using the audioarc and found that the pi 5 Drew about 500 milliamps during idle operation in a desktop environment with no peripherals or monitor plugged in and about 2.15 amps when Under full load with a keyboard mouse and monitor plugged in this is quite a bit more than the pi 4 which uses about 300 milliamps at idle and about 1.3 amps when under the same conditions under load the new Pi 5 CPU is on a 16 nanometer process architecture which is more efficient than the 28 nanometer on the pi 4 but even with this the pi 5 still draws a good chunk of Power with this increase in power draw is an increase in cooling needs and probably explains the heatsink mounting points and the dedicated fan connector here however we ran all of our tests with the official Pi 5 Active cooler and we had no thermal issues whatsoever the fan didn't even spin up when under the thermal load of day-to-day activities and just general browsing and when running stressberry where we put the pie Under full load for half an hour it had no thermal throttling whatsoever and no issues with cooling the fan wasn't even up on Full Speed Most of the time so it does run hot but a decent heatsink and fan should be enough to cool a stock Pie Five a new pie means new accessories with the change in layout we have a new power over ethernet hat which will also support the new Power delivery requirements and as mentioned we have a new official case this new case seems to be a bit of a step up from the previous generation cases as it actually has an inbuilt fan in it we also have some nice slots for your interface cables to run out of the case and it's also stackable for any of your cluster needs it seems that overall the pi 5 cases just had a lot more love and thought put into it this generation there is also an official active cooler big hunk of metal with a blower fan as we've mentioned it seems to do a really good job of keeping it cool there is also the m.2 hatch which will fit a small form factor m.2 SSD or other m.2 devices onto that pcie interface and we are very excited to see where that goes and of course we have a whole bunch of other official accessories like camera and display adapter cables for the new mipi interface RTC batteries and The Beginner's Guide etc etc so it's been a while since the last pipe launch and again this is very early days but for that weight the pi 5 seems to have brought a wealth of new features and interfaces on the board as well as a considerable Leap Forward in processing power we think that this new pie is going to open up many new possibilities and applications with these new additions and it's also a very viable day-to-day desktop experience thanks to its increase in speed we also think that this speed will enable people to do many things that was beyond the processing power of previous generations and the pi life is not that much more expensive the four and eight gigabyte models are the pi five are only about five US dollars more expensive than their Pi 4 counterparts that is a fantastic jump in speed ability and features for such a small step in price until next time [Music]

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Length: 12min 37sec (757 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 28 2023