Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains.
The Raspberry Pi 5 is designed to deliver a 2~3x performance improvement over the Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi 5 features a quad-core Cortex-A76 processor that clocks up to 2.4GHz, compared to the four Cortex-A72 cores found in the Raspberry Pi 4 that only clocked up to 1.8GHz. The graphics are also much-improved with now having an 800MHz VideoCore VII graphics processor over the VideoCore VI graphics with the Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi 5 is capable of driving two 4K @ 60Hz displays and features 4K @ 60 HEVC decode hardware capabilities.
Also interesting with the Raspberry Pi 5 is that it features in-house silicon in the form of the RP1 “southbridge” used for much of the board’s I/O capabilities. This southbridge should yield faster USB I/O along with other I/O bandwidth upgrades like a doubling of the peak SD card performance. The Raspberry Pi 5 also features a single-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface for improved connectivity.
https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-5?variant=42531604955331
£59.30 for the 4gig. £79 for the 8gig. No idea why people are going off thinking they need to spend £165.
Pre-order info page with dates etc:
https://support.thepihut.com/hc/en-us/articles/13847961024925
why in the hell are RPs do damn proprietary?
Never understood why other company can’t produce clones for ultra cheap.
Genuinely stupid question, but can someone tell me how many 1080p HEVC/REMUX streams can I run on this with jellyfin? Either I can buy this or build a budget PC, but I’ve been out of the game for far too long to do the latter (the last one I built was when CSGO was a new thing lol).
I run Jellyfin on a RPi 4. It works for me, but only because I use codecs (h264/265 for video, AAC for audio) that are definitely supported on my players (NVidia Shield TV and android phones). This leads to Jellyfin not touching the files and just providing them to the player. As soon as any codec doesn’t fit my client (for example OPUS audio) Jellyfin starts re-encoding the audio and remuxing the stream and the stream just fails.
So yes: RPi4 is generally not able to run Jellyfin unless you have a very specific setup.
Did they back out of their police associations?
I saw something about this somewhere else, but I don’t know what’s going on? What is this about?
This is great news… for business customers, as they’re those are the only channels they’ll be available through.
Well, unless you don’t mind spending $200-$400 per unit to scalpers, who magically never seem to run out of stock.
You sure it’s not a knock off being sold as the real thing? Or maybe it doesn’t matter if the hardware is the same.
This is great news… for business customers, as they’re those are the only channels they’ll be available through.
Could you elaborate, as I would imagine you’d be able to buy it from anywhere that wants to sell it, if not online?
Edit: As I read further into this conversation a comment stood out for me that gave me understanding on what the original comment I was replying to might have been speaking about.
They’re gonna prioritise companies again and make it impossible for normal people to get it, right?
Ever since the pandemic they’ve diverted 99% of all available inventory to business only sales channels. They blamed the chip shortage, but it’s been several years now ongoing.
You can only find the lowest tier crap stock, old stock, or scalped stock, from retail sellers.
This is very well documented and even websites setup to check stock across multiple resellers in the hopes of finding that 1% of retail allocation.
They sold out the community that built them up in favor of a business to business sales model. Don’t let their PR team, or their fanboys, tell you otherwise.
That’s the problem. They’re always out of stock.
https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=raspberry pi 4
https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/233
You’d even be hard pressed to find one at a Micro Center or some other physical store.
I just managed to get one like a month ago. After watching all the retailers I could find for like 2 years. Eventually I found a site that aggregated them to make it easier but it was Still like 3 months before I caught someone with stock in time to buy it. Figures the next one would come out right after all that…
