Equipment register / Compute
Record 002Raspberry Pi 5 8GB
A 2.4 GHz quad-core Arm single-board computer with 8GB RAM, dual 4K display output, wireless networking, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 and GPIO expansion.
My take
Raspberry Pi 5 is a general-purpose Arm single-board computer capable of running a full Linux operating system. The 8GB model combines a quad-core Cortex-A76 processor with enough memory for desktop use, development environments, network services, automation and edge-computing workloads.
It supports two 4K displays, high-speed USB peripherals, Gigabit Ethernet, dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The 40-pin GPIO header, MIPI camera/display connectors and exposed PCIe interface allow it to control electronics, attach sensors and expand into storage, vision, AI, IoT and homelab systems.
Field notes
- Processor
- 2.4 GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76
- Memory
- 8GB LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM
- Wireless
- Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 and BLE
- Display
- Dual 4Kp60 output through two micro-HDMI ports
- USB
- 2 × USB 3.0 and 2 × USB 2.0
- Networking
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Expansion
- 40-pin GPIO, PCIe 2.0 ×1, two four-lane MIPI camera/display connectors
- Storage
- microSD with SDR104 support; PCIe storage expansion supported