Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! - Raspberry Pi
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Announcing Raspberry Pi 5, coming in late October: over 2x faster than Raspberry Pi 4, featuring silicon designed in-house at Raspberry Pi.
  • @makeasnek@lemmy.ml
    28•2 years ago

    These things are great for !boinc@sopuli.xyz often time leagues more efficient per watt in terms of computation than regular PCs. I have a couple of 'em working on cancer research and computing to develop an open-source patent-free covid antiviral. You don’t need a PhD to make a difference, all you need is a processor :)

    • @towerful@programming.dev
      11•2 years ago

      I did a quick Google.
      https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/group/green_machines.html

      Is the best actual test data I can find. It uses a physical power meter, so it’s full system (not TDP or self reporting power consumption).
      And it’s a few years out of date.
      Seems like Apple silicon is the winner (and will probably continue to be).
      The Xeon that beats the rpi4 for GFLOPS/watt is an e5v3, which was launched in 2013 and EOL in 2021.
      So there will absolutely be some new Xeon CPUs that will perform better.

      However, for a $50 device, it’s probably the best GFLOPS/watt/$ from what little empirical data I can find

    • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      20•2 years ago

      If they were more efficient per watt for scientific computing, you’d hear about researchers building HPC clusters from them.

      • @makeasnek@lemmy.ml
        4•2 years ago

        If they were more efficient per watt for scientific computing, you’d hear about researchers building HPC clusters from them.

        Efficiency per watt is not the same as total cost of ownership. Pis are expensive for the amount of compute you get from them in total, but the compute itself is efficient per watt. You would need at least a dozen Pis to rival the latest CPU processors in terms of total output, a dozen Pis is more expensive to buy than a single CPU.

      • @Piemanding@sh.itjust.works
        10•2 years ago

        But are there cheaper options… who am I kidding. Raspberry Pi 5 will instantly get scalped for 80+ dollars.

        Edit: looks like they are already 60-80 dollars

      • sto
        5•2 years ago

        Any suggestions that you could make? I’m in the market for replacing my plex box.

        • bitwolf
          4•2 years ago

          I use a J5040-ITX ATM. I know it says Pentium but don’t take that for granted. This chip is really just a lower binned i3 throttled enough to be passively cooled.

          I run Plex as a docker-compose workload and bind mount /dev/dri which passes Intels quick sync accelerator into the container for Plex to use.

          This enabled hw encoding. I also make sure I can direct stream from all of my clients. This setup can handle a few 4k streams and several 1080p streams.

          I mainly use it hoard to losseless music and hard to find cartoons / movies.

          I have an upgrade to a Pi Cluster planned but I don’t recommend it unless you specifically want to run Pis.

        • @M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6•2 years ago

          So, the pi is $80. That is without a case, power supply, or hard drive. Once you add these things to the Pi, you are into the $100-200 price range. At that point, you can just get an old desktop or a micro desktop. There are some youtube videos about it. I think they are maybe twice as big as a pi, but have intel processors in them.

          They will be cheaper or similar in price and have better performance.

          I just use an old desktop that has a 4th gen i5 and it runs significantly better than the pi4 does. Plus, I can just throw all my drives in the case and not need to worry about USB connected drives.

          Also, I recommend Jellyfin over Plex.

            • @M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1•2 years ago

              I guess, it’s not going to be a huge difference when you factor in using a bunch of hard drives.

              The raspberry pi has its place for sure, but those micropcs are probably a better deal for most people who want them for home use.

        • @dammitBobby@lemm.ee
          1•2 years ago

          Any Intel CPU 8th gen or newer with quick sync can do like 20 simultaneous 1080p transcodes. You could get a Celeron and have a powerful plex box. Look up guides for the HP 290 as a starting place.

    • Helmic [he/him]English
      5•2 years ago

      It’s the lack of hardware AV1 that concerns me, as well as droppong h.264. Raw CPU means it’ll still handle the latter, but since streaming will be moving to AV1 it’s kind of questionable whether this will be a reasonable media center.

    • @the_lone_wolf@lemmy.ml
      11•2 years ago

      It’s not “opengl 3.1” it’s “opengl es 3.1” which stand for embedded system and roughly equals to OpenGL 4.3 spec.

      • Coelacanthus
        5•2 years ago

        Oh, my bad. But OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan 1.2 is also not suitable to 2023. Hope the developers can make driver support Vulkan 1.3.

  • @agent_flounder@lemmy.oneEnglish
    10•2 years ago

    For all of us bitter people who couldn’t get an RPi 3 let alone 4 for less than a fortune during the recent dark times…

    We’d like to thank you: we’re going to ringfence all of the Raspberry Pi 5s we sell until at least the end of the year for single-unit sales to individuals, so you get the first bite of the cherry.

    So I will probably preorder one because why not.

    • Fedora
      2•2 years ago

      Someone needs to test and find the bugs so that the corporate users get a good experience next year.

  • Shelldor
    10•2 years ago

    I wonder if the will make a Pi 500 the all in one form factor is so convenient when traveling

  • Kichae
    20•2 years ago

    Are they still playing apologetics for the cops? Because if so, no thanks.

    • Count Regal Inkwell
      13•2 years ago

      Well – they never really backed down on what they did. Far as we know the out-and-proud espionage cop is still in their payroll, and the only response they ever gave to the story was a generalised ‘We think the entire thing is being astroturfed and that no one reasonable is ACTUALLY against us hiring this guy who bragged about all the espionage he did’ back in the day.

      They never said anything about it since. So it’s fair to assume they still believe in what they did.

  • ImnebuddyEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    Finally, a pi good for 4K video! (Apparently Raspberry Pi 4 could as well, but I am assuming this is an improvement. I still have a couple of Raspberry Pi 3’s.)

    • Abracadaniel [he/him]English
      2•2 years ago

      You won’t notice a difference in h265 4k video as each has a decoder, but Youtube performance would definitely be improved. My Rpi4 struggles with 4k60p youtube videos because it lacks a VP9 decoder.

    • @Decr@lemmy.world
      1•2 years ago

      Sadly no hardware AV1 decode though. Though it can apparently decode AV1 in software up to 1080p.