Monday, June 24, 2019

Raspberry Pi 4 announced, more power for the same price

The powerful pocket desktop from Raspberry Pi just got beter while maintaining its attractive price tag. In fact, the new Raspberry Pi 4 is considerably more powerful than its predecessor with the same starting price. The biggest and most notable upgrade is the CPU. The new chipset features four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 1.5GHz instead of Cortex-A53 ticking at 1.4GHz. This alone means about 3x better performance compared to the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. Memory has also seen a significant bump going from the LPDDR2 standard to LPDDR4. The new VideoCore VI GPU can handle 4K/60fps...