“Certainly a lot faster than my Pi 4, I was using the Pi 4 for some facial and object recognition projects and they run much smoother on the Pi 5.
Some programs written for Pi 2, 3 and 4 may need changing to work on the Pi 5. The pi5 has a different chip for GPIO to the previous pi's, so RPI.GPIO does not work.
The pi 5 will not run previous OS's so you will need to use 'Bookworm'.
All in all a good upgrade but I wil be hanging on to my older pi's for the forseeable future.”
“Works just fine. Runs hot even when virtually idle. I have it in the official case with a fan and it exceeds 50C doing nothing. I have it in a cold plade and it runs about 48C. I don't doubt it is faster than the Pi 4 I was using but with what I use it for was probably overkill and it has plentu of headroom for something more demanding but I'd use a better cooling solution for my own peace of mind if I did so.
I use it as a personal webserver. The picture is from a PHP page I wrote for the purpose of monitoring my Pi”
“Excellent SBC, got batocera running on it and can already see the improvement over my Pi4. Very happy with the pimoroni support too. Royal mail managed to lose my parcel but a replacement was offered immediately.”
