“I run KODI on my new Raspberry Pi 5 with surprisingly excellent 4K video quality, much better than its predecessor Raspberry Pi 4 which I am going to sell it. However, I like that standard hdmi rather than the micro hdmi on Pi 4 and Pi 5 which require buying a special hdmi cable with a much smaller and fragile head (that I broke twice) for it. Overall performance makes not much difference for my application apart from the video quality improvement, which means that the price dropping Pi 5 predecessors are still good investment if you are not looking for video and computationally intensive applications. I brought the Pi 5 from PIMORONI a month ago before they put a sale of 10% discount for it. Did they price it too much initially or buyers now have more substitute options is something that I don't know. But what I do know is that I paid 10% too much for it.”
“When this arrived in the mail, I'd forgotten I'd bought it making for a very good suprise. Pretty much all the features missing from the 4 have been added here.”
“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”
