“I like the performance of the new Pi. The only kind of painful for me is that this 5V 5A power supply is not so popular on the market, so there are not a lot of ways to juice up our Pi at the moment - PoE Hat is also still not released.”
“I'm new to the Raspberry Pi, and I managed to get my hands on a Pi 5 4gb from Pimoroni and also the 8gb version. I'm using the 4gb for Klipper, and I'm setting up an AI assistant on the 8gb.
I'm always shocked when I realise what they can do. I've got so many uses for them, I'll definitely buy more when available.
Just a heads up, I had trouble with Pi Imager on Ubuntu 22 but got it working on Windows 10.”
“Slow starter. I saw the speed tests in the Magpi magazine but mine seems slow to start and load the web browser. It took 30 minutes to do the updates and that was after downloading the December 2023 disk image. You better have an HDMI to micro-HDMI adapter in your inventory or you need to buy one. otherwise, you will be disappointed when you cannot connect a monitor. I'm using a USB mouse and keyboard and the mouse makes sticky movements when changing tabs in Firefox. Not a huge issue but slower than I expected. The graphics are excellent. I'm in the US with gig-speed internet and web pages load slowly nearly 30 seconds to loan youtube.com. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I don't see much difference above the pi4.”
“Apparently the Broadcome BCM2712 CPU on the Raspberry Pi 5 more than doubles nVidia Tegra K1's Geekbench 5 score. I've really gotta read more about its VideoCore VII GPU but overall for the price point the RPi 5 looks pretty impressive so far. Very snappy. If you've ever used any Raspberry Pi before this is noticeably much, much faster. It reminds me of using a modern smartphone.
If someone started manufacturing RPi5-based tablets, handhelds, smartphones, settops, nettops or laptops I would buy any of these, no question.
I think it just became my main "PC" but I'm only a casual gamer on a good day. Its only shortcomings is that it's not a laptop and that it doesn't have a gaming-tier GPU which would both be a big ask so I'm giving it 5 stars. I was surprised by the power button, must have skimmed over that in the specs. 1 lane of PCIe? Awesome. Will I try to use it for M.2/NVMe SSD or some kind of GPU? If anyone is wondering: yes, someone has already interfaced both the CM4 and the Pi 5 with a proper GPU, albeit in 1x mode, not 16x.
I'd be thrilled by a handful of nVidia or AMD compute units to play around with on this thing. We need an ARM64 build of Crysis just to see how the BCM2712 itself holds up. I see now reason why low-mid tier gaming couldn't be acheivable on a Raspberry Pi either very soon or we're already there. I wouldn't get my hopes up about it but that's how impressed I am by this thing. Broadcom should at least think about jamming hundreds of VideoCore VII GPUs into an SoC. Frankly I'm wondering if VideoCore's counterparts like PowerVR, Adreno and Mali aren't thinking about competing with Tegra the way AMD has.
I'm excited for what this generation of SoCs says about the status quo for casual gamers. Looking forward to putting the Pi 5 and it's BCM2712 through its paces in that regard. This is amazing to me.”
