Raspberry Pi 4 Announced

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The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized single board PC that was originally released in February, 2012. Originally featuring a single core ARM CPU, VideoCore IV GPU, and 256MB of RAM, it was a pretty barebones PC at the time. Over the years, the Pi has gotten various hardware upgrades to make it a powerful single board PC, and this next revision is one of their bigger upgrades.

The Pi 4 now features:
  • 4x Cortex A72 CPU, running at 1.5Ghz
  • VideoCore VI GPU, capable of H.265 decoding, and supports OpenGL ES 3.0
  • 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB of LDDR4 RAM
  • 2x USB 3.0 Ports, 2 USB 2.0 Ports
  • 2.4ghz+5.0ghz 802.11ac Wireless
  • Bluetooth 5.0, BLE
  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • 2x Micro HDMI ports, capable of pushing 2x 4k@30fps displays
  • USB-C Port for power
  • TRRS Pole Connector
One of the biggest changes Pi-veterans will notice is the use of the VideoCore VI GPU, thanks to the new SoC we now have almost 1.5x the performance of the previous VideoCore IV, plus support for 4K resolutions. USB-C for power is also a nice addition, now that Micro USB is starting to become a thing of the past.

The 1GB Kit will cost the usual $35, whereas the 2GB model will be $45, and the 4GB model will cost $55.

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They're trying real hard to get wrecked by the Chinese. Only useful addition is gigabit, the rest just hikes the price while maintaining meager specs. Still using very unfree chips, thanks Broadcom.

Main advantage I’ve seen to using the Pi is the community/support.

What would you recommend over the Pi?
 
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So who is going to go with the "Most videogame systems emulated in a single Raspberry Pi without the emulation being crap" challenge on this thing?

I think PS1 emulation can be made quite good with the more powerful hardware, maybe even do some slight improvements so the games look better.
 

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Main advantage I’ve seen to using the Pi is the community/support.

What would you recommend over the Pi?
I have from and [would, some are old] recommend Orange Pi (Zero is awesome), BeagleBoard, PINE64 NanoPI, HardKernel manufacturers. There are hundreds of alternatives. Considering to buy the cheaper SiFive model now, but that's very niche. It depends on what features and how much freedom you want. Raspberry tries to be catch-all but has a lot of useless stuff in my use case. Large communities for a specific board doesn't really help since they all run well established systems and interfaces, and no one really fixes hardware stuff anyway.
 
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I'm pretty sure the real question is: Can it run Doom?

All models of the RPi can run at least 1 version of Doom in some way.....

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No idea what this means. Is the new raspberry pi a video decoder or something? I thought you needed to install decoders to do that, or VLC player. :blink:
Your quoted text, the decoder can now do 4Kp60 (4K Resolution at 60 FPS.)
 

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Definitely gonna be picking one of these up. Hoping that this speeds up N64 Emulation. For me that was kind of a deal breaker with the Pi 3. The Specs look really good from what I can tell.
 

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On the 3B+ I rarely had issues with N64 emulation with a modest overclock and heatsink :)

A lot of games ran fine like Ocarina of Time, Smash, Mario Kart 64, And Super Mario 64. But I had several issues with the Mario Party games. Specifically 2 and 3. Just random Freezes or slow downs would often occur. Also mine wasn't overclocked so that may be why
 
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I have from and [would, some are old] recommend Orange Pi (Zero is awesome), BeagleBoard, PINE64 NanoPI, HardKernel manufacturers. There are hundreds of alternatives. Considering to buy the cheaper SiFive model now, but that's very niche. It depends on what features and how much freedom you want. Raspberry tries to be catch-all but has a lot of useless stuff in my use case. Large communities for a specific board doesn't really help since they all run well established systems and interfaces, and no one really fixes hardware stuff anyway.

I have heard of a few of those, both positive and negative opinions.

I think ultimately it’s a ymmv thing.

When I said community I did also mean things like forums, etc. I actually found myself on the Pi forum allot recently, albeit for an unrelated project but still learned allot of what I needed.

When it comes to tinkering or hobbyist projects, this can mean allot to casuals like myself.
 

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Very cool upgrade - significant improvements across the board (hehe). The bump in specs brings its price closer back in line with other mini boards available now. As other have said, though, the main selling point of the Pi is the huge developer community around it and all of the software it supports. My guess is we will be waiting a while for a lot of the software packages out there to re-stabilize for the new platform. Happily, Flirc have already released and update design for their excellent case that fits the new board.


Also, 4K support is a very welcome addition - looking at you, Kodi/Plex/whatever.
 

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Very cool upgrade - significant improvements across the board (hehe). The bump in specs brings its price closer back in line with other mini boards available now. As other have said, though, the main selling point of the Pi is the huge developer community around it and all of the software it supports. My guess is we will be waiting a while for a lot of the software packages out there to re-stabilize for the new platform. Happily, Flirc have already released and update design for their excellent case that fits the new board.


Also, 4K support is a very welcome addition - looking at you, Kodi/Plex/whatever.
Kodi already supports 4k, so does plex. Also, comparing Kodi/plex to the raspberry pi is not fair as one is software only, the other is hardware.
 

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