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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Raspberry Pi 5 has been announced [raspberrypi.com] for an October launch of 4 GB ($60) and 8 GB RAM ($80) variants. Features include:

• 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU
• VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2
• Dual 4Kp60 HDMI® display output
• 4Kp60 HEVC decoder
• Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi®
• Bluetooth 5.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
• High-speed microSD card interface with SDR104 mode support
• 2 × USB 3.0 ports, supporting simultaneous 5Gbps operation
• 2 × USB 2.0 ports
• Gigabit Ethernet, with PoE+ support (requires separate PoE+ HAT, coming soon)
• 2 × 4-lane MIPI camera/display transceivers
• PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals
• Raspberry Pi standard 40-pin GPIO header
• Real-time clock
• Power button

CPU performance should be about 2-3x the Raspberry Pi 4 from three generational Cortex-A increases (from A72, skipping A73 [wikipedia.org]/A75 [wikipedia.org] to A76 [wikipedia.org]), 33% higher clock speed (from the updated 1.8 GHz [raspberrypi.com] of RPi4), and a superior process node (16nm from 28nm).

RPi5 now includes a separate I/O controller, "RP1", designed in-house. Now you get two separate 5 Gbps USB3 interfaces, instead of two ports sharing 4 Gbps, and a PCIe 2.0 x4 link, intended for an M.2 HAT or other accessories.

One notable loss is the analogue audio jack. Most users will be getting audio from micro-HDMI.

Specs were accidentally leaked about a day in advance, for example by element14 (farnell) [soylentnews.org] or the MicroLinux YouTube channel [youtube.com] (6m1s video).

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