Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4

[Myownfriend]

Aside from the original VideoCore IV, have they ever officially disclosed specs of the GPUs (other than clock speed)?

About a month ago I found a PDF where they provided diagrams of the Videocore VI where they detailed what they call their execution units, how many there are, I believe scheduling was on there, etc. It was a decent bit. They mentioned that a notable change between V and VI is that they went tile-based so there was less memory contention.

[oleid]

Good news, the pi is getting more useful with this healthy boost in overall perf.

How about compute? Does it support OpenCL?

The benchmarks include Vulkan compute benchmarks, the neuronal networks at the end of the article.

[uid313]

Unless you wanna lay down another Ethernet cable across the whole house just to hook it up to your Raspberry Pi then you're stuck with Wi-Fi which and this new Raspberry Pi 5 still only have old shitty Wi-Fi 5, the same as in Raspberry Pi 4. 🥹

It only has 4 CPU cores, all of them Cortex-A76, I would have loved to see a heterogeneous big.LITTLE architecture with 4 weak cores and 4 strong cores. If I had a single-board computer it would likely mostly be idle so weak, low-power, energy efficient cores would be nice. Also the Cortex-A76 core is quite old, the newer cores are more energy efficient, so that's good too if you want to run without a fan.

I hope we get some interesting competitors that offer Wi-Fi 6 and more modern cores in a heterogeneous configuration.

Also if the CPU and GPU is so powerful, why does it still come with that shitty Raspberry desktop instead of GNOME? 🤔

[RussianNeuroMancer]

So, does Raspberry Pi 5 solve all the screen tearing issues? I remember when Raspberry Pi 4 came out, it was supposed to be SO much more performant than Pi 3 and all, but once I got one in my hands, the screen tearing was just really annoying.

Have you seen tearing with Xorg or with Wayland?

Also if the CPU and GPU is so powerful, why does it still come with that shitty Raspberry desktop instead of GNOME? 🤔

I guess because they want unified experience and testing process between different generations. Imagine how many RPi3B and RPi4B there in the wild, and foundation need to support all of them for years.

[FireBurn]

Would love to see how well this runs Yuzu, especially compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

[ddriver]

I had my RPi5 board connected to a Samsung 4K panel capable of 120MHz rates...

Oh wow, where did you get that display. Its 222222 times times faster than the fastest display I am aware of, which runs at the modest, really miserable in comparison 540 Hz.

[User42]

Do we finally get full mainstream Linux support and standard-compliant-enough firmware to get all aarch64 Linux distros to boot on it without voodoo?

[You-]

Unless you wanna lay down another Ethernet cable across the whole house just to hook it up to your Raspberry Pi then you're stuck with Wi-Fi which and this new Raspberry Pi 5 still only have old shitty Wi-Fi 5, the same as in Raspberry Pi 4. 🥹

It only has 4 CPU cores, all of them Cortex-A76, I would have loved to see a heterogeneous big.LITTLE architecture with 4 weak cores and 4 strong cores.

Lucky for you, the comparison in this article and in many other boares using the RK3588 such as the Rock 5B have precisely this (along with two nvme slots).

Hopefully with kernel 6.7 even the opensource drivers wil be mainlined for them.

[ayumu]

Well, I want to see if this would make a decent Wireguard server that could serve 10-15 users.

I don't think GPU matters much for that.

I'd look at VisionFive 2 (low power, open standard RISC-V ISA, two GbE ports) for that specific application.

[kurkosdr]

One thing I don't understand: Does it support OpenGL? In the Raspberry Pi 5 product page they claim OpenGLES and Vulkan, but article talks about GLmark 2.