Raspberry Pi, as the “Big Brother” of open source hardware, has always been loved by makers, especially in the fields of smart home, NAS, and smart devices, where it has occupied half of the market.
The latest Raspberry Pi 5 has received mixed reviews, and users have different opinions. How effective is it? In this article, we will not talk about parameters at this time, but instead try another new way to conduct actual evaluation. We will do a series of horizontal evaluations and see how Raspberry Pi 5 compares with other models of Pi to see what the results are.
The models to be compared this time are all the hot-selling and popular products of the current Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC) development boards. Can you guess their model names?
From left to right: Zero 2W, PI3B+, PI4, and the latest PI5. Did you guess them all correctly? If you can recognize it at a glance, you are definitely a loyal fan of Raspberry Pi. The above models of Raspberry Pi are the most widely used ones at present.
Before the evaluation, I will first list the key hardware parameters of these four development boards and introduce them to friends who are not familiar with them.
If you are not familiar with it, please review “Getting Started with your Raspberry Pi - Quick Start Guide” first and get a preliminary understanding of the background of Raspberry Pi.
Is the Raspberry Pi 5 a real breakthrough in performance or just a waste of time? Let’s wait and see.
| Model | SOC | RAM | GPU | USB Interface | Network Interface | PCIe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PI 5 | BCM2712 2.4GHz ,64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 | LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM (2GB/4GB/8GB) | VideoCore VII GPU, OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2 | 2×USB 3.0(5Gbps) 2×USB 2.0 | 1×Gigabit LAN, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 | 1×PCIe 2.0 interface |
| PI 4B | BCM2711 1.8GHz, 64-bit Arm Cortex-A72 | LPDDR4-3200 SDRAM (2GB/4GB/8GB) | OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.0 | 2×USB 3.0(5Gbps) 2×USB 2.0 | 1×Gigabit LAN, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 | NO |
| PI 3B+ | BCM2837B0 1.4GHz, 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 | 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM | OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0 graphics | 4×USB 2.0 | 1×300Mbps Interface, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2 | NO |
| PI Zero 2W | BCM2710A1 1GHz, Arm 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 | 512MB LPDDR2 | OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0 graphics | 1 × USB 2.0OTG | 2.4G Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2 | NO |
Horizontal Evaluation Content:
Evaluation Item 1: CPU Test
Evaluation Item 2: Memory Test
Evaluation Item 3: Network Test
Evaluation Item 4: NGINX Performance
Evaluation Item 5: TF Card Read and Write Speed Test
Summarize:
Through the above five tests, we can see that every upgrade of Raspberry Pi brings a breakthrough in performance, especially in the performance experience of Raspberry Pi 5, which shows very obvious improvement. In addition, the ecosystem of the Raspberry Pi development board is also particularly superior. I have not seen any other open source development board that can do this. The same system can be programmed on different development boards to achieve system self-adaptation. Raspberry Pi also continues to provide system support for development boards such as Zero, PI 2, and PI3 which have been released for many years, which is a fantastic thing.
This is the end of the review, please look forward to the next review. Thanks!