Raspberry Pi's Raspberry Pi 5 is built upon a 64-bit quad-core 2.4 GHz Arm® Cortex®-A76 processor, which can provide a two to three times increase in CPU performance compared to Raspberry Pi 4. This is also complemented by a substantial improvement in graphics performance from an 800 MHz VideoCore VII GPU, which provides dual 4Kp60 display output over HDMI and state-of-the-art support from a rearchitected Raspberry Pi image signal processor, providing a much better desktop experience and creating opportunities for new applications for industrial customers.

Along with being built on an updated processor, Raspberry Pi 5 also includes an entirely new chip designed in-house by Raspberry Pi to handle the majority of I/O capabilities. The RP1 Southbridge delivers an upgrade in peripheral performance and functionality. The USB bandwidth has more than doubled, leading to faster transfer speeds to external UAS drives and other high-speed peripherals. This chip has also enabled Raspberry Pi to a pair of four-lane 1.5 Gbps MIPI transceivers, which triples total bandwidth and supports any combination of up to two cameras or displays. The RP1 also doubles the SD card performance via the SDR104 high-speed mode. Lastly, the RP1 also added the opportunity to add a single-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface that supports high-bandwidth peripherals.

In addition to the RP1 chip, a power management IC from Renesas enables additional features. Raspberry Pi 5 now has an onboard power button, which enables the user to power on/off the board with just a touch. This PMIC also includes an onboard RTC. In order to add a battery backup for the RTC, Raspberry Pi has added a connector for a battery connection. The last feature of the PMIC is the ability for the board to recognize when a Power Delivery (PD) power supply is used and enables a higher output of 1.6 A to the USB ports. If a non-PD power supply is used, the ports are limited to 600 mA.

Raspberry Pi 5 has two new connectors: one UART connection for their debugger board and one for a fan connection. These connectors make the connection of the debugging probe, the case fan, or the active cooler quick and easy.