Pre-order the latest Raspberry Pi 5 boards from Farnell

The much-anticipated new Raspberry Pi 5 4GB and 8GB boards are now available for pre-order from Farnell, Raspberry Pi’s exclusive global licensee.

Raspberry Pi 5 delivers a two-to-three times increase in performance over Raspberry Pi 4, including a significant boost to GPU performance, together with improvements to camera, display, and USB interfacing. These interfacing improvements are delivered by the RP1 I/O controller chip, designed in-house at Raspberry Pi, and marking the first time Raspberry Pi’s proprietary silicon has featured on a flagship product.

Eben Upton, CEO at Raspberry Pi said: “Raspberry Pi 5 is the single largest engineering program we’ve ever undertaken, spanning more than half a decade. We’re hugely excited by the performance of the completed product: a no-compromises Linux desktop computer from just $60. Farnell has been a Raspberry Pi licensee since the launch of the original product in February 2012, and are now our sole licensee: we are delighted to be working with them to bring our latest and most powerful flagship product to a global audience.”

Simon Meadmore, VP of product and supplier management at Farnell said: “Farnell is proud to be the exclusive global manufacturing licensee for Raspberry Pi 5, building on the phenomenal success of Raspberry Pi 4. The new boards offer users an impressive increase in CPU and GPU performance, together with many improvements to camera, display, and USB interfacing that together will provide exciting new opportunities for enthusiasts around the world.”