Status: A first release is now available. (download testing
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The Pi4
The Pi 4 is available as of today. That’s quite a big surprise as everyone expected 2020. The specs seem very nice:
- Broadcom BCM2711, Quad core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz
- 1GB, 2GB or 4GB LPDDR4-2400 SDRAM (depending on model)
- 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 5.0, BLE
- Gigabit Ethernet
- 2 USB 3.0 ports; 2 USB 2.0 ports.
- Raspberry Pi standard 40 pin GPIO header (fully backwards compatible with previous boards)
- 2 × micro-HDMI ports (up to 4kp60 supported)
- 2-lane MIPI DSI display port
- 2-lane MIPI CSI camera port
- 4-pole stereo audio and composite video port
- H.265 (4kp60 decode), H264 (1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode)
- OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics
- Micro-SD card slot for loading operating system and data storage
- 5V DC via USB-C connector (minimum 3A*)
- 5V DC via GPIO header (minimum 3A*)
- Power over Ethernet (PoE) enabled (requires separate PoE HAT)
- Operating temperature: 0 – 50 degrees C ambient
OpenGL now uses “V3D” instead of a closed source driver so that’s quite different to what it was before, so info-beamer won’t work out of the box. Similarly video decoding very likely change massively, but I didn’t look into that yet.
I would expect all this to be a massive amount of work until you get the smooth and stable experience of the current generation Pis. There is no release date for anything yet. Any news will be posted here.