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The ever popular Pi news

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-ceo-million-unit-months-are-ahead

Hopefully this means the shortages will be a thing of the past soon

Hopefully this will lead to easier benchmarks on the pi

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-GPU-Stats-Report

Well Christmas has really come early this year.

As I'm sure you are all aware now the new Raspberry Pi 5 is coming very soon. I got in on day one and ordered 2 from two different companies. One 4 Gig and the other the 8 Gig version. Think I'll be getting them around the start of November.

The main takeaway seems to be that there is at least a 2x performance boost in the real world out of the box. Along with much faster RAM, comms and ports there is potentially ways to boost this performance even more.

Like the ability to run a M.2 drive when the adapter drops. Something I will be playing with for sure. More power too with up to 5A available and now has the option of two cameras, two displays or a combination.

Which has got me wondering if you could run a game, camera and monitor directly from the Pi?

Then there is the overclocking. Not sure what the options are yet but I reckon there could be a few more FPS up for grabs with the right cooling in place.

Can't wait to play

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/overclocking-raspberry-pi-5

The nice people at Toms have overclocked the Pi 5 to 3 GHz CPU and 1.1 GHz GPU. With a nice 5-10% uplift seems possible.

Well 2024 seem to be off to a good start. Seems like the Pi's are back in stock and they are apparently turning out 70,000 a week in the UK, expected to scale up to 90,000 a week!

Also they let slip the unsurprising news that the Pi 5 compute module not likely to drop till next year.

Well a nice treat before the end of the year and the compute unit 5 has dropped.

I have one on order which should come on a few days and I'll report back on how it performs