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Raspberry Pi 5 specs, pinout & datasheets

Single-board computer · Raspberry Pi · Released September 2023

The 2.4 GHz Cortex-A76 Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi’s own RP1 I/O chip, a PCIe connector, a power button and a real-time clock.

Photo: SimonWaldherr, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Chip / SoC: Broadcom BCM2712 with Raspberry Pi RP1 I/O controller
CPU: 4 × Cortex-A76 (Armv8-A, 64-bit)
Clock: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 GB LPDDR4X
Storage: microSD card; NVMe via the PCIe connector and an M.2 HAT
Wireless: 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5; Bluetooth 5 and BLE
I/O voltage: 3.3 V
Released: September 2023
Status: In production

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Specifications

15 specs

Chip / SoC: Broadcom BCM2712 with Raspberry Pi RP1 I/O controller^[2]
CPU: 4 × Cortex-A76 (Armv8-A, 64-bit)^[2]
Clock: 2.4 GHz^[2]
RAM: 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 GB LPDDR4X^[2]
Storage: microSD card; NVMe via the PCIe connector and an M.2 HAT^[6]
GPU: VideoCore VII^[2]
GPIO: 40-pin header^[1]
I/O voltage: 3.3 V^[3]
Input voltage: 5 V, 5 A via USB-C (5 V, 3 A with a 600 mA USB limit)^[1]
Wireless: 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5; Bluetooth 5 and BLE^[1]
Ethernet: Gigabit, with PoE+ support^[1]
USB: 2 × USB 3.0, 2 × USB 2.0^[1]
Video: 2 × micro-HDMI, dual 4Kp60^[2]
Expansion: Single-lane PCIe connector; 2 × combined camera/display connectors; UART, fan and RTC battery connectors^[1]
Launch price: US$60 (4 GB), US$80 (8 GB)^[5]

Can I still use it?

3 platforms

Raspberry Pi OS: Supported^[7]32-bit and 64-bit images.
Mainline Linux: Supported^[10]A device tree for this board is in the mainline kernel; features may still be missing.
Zephyr RTOS: Supported^[9]

As published by each project, checked weekly. A platform not listed has no published information here, which is not the same as no support.

Datasheets and documents

3 documents

Raspberry Pi hardware documentationGuide
Raspberry Pi 5 product briefProduct page
Raspberry Pi 5 mechanical drawingMechanical drawing

Pinout

40 pins

Raspberry Pi 40-pin GPIO header^[3]

Power
Ground
GPIO
Special
Not connected

Pin table (40 pins)

J8 (40-pin GPIO)
Pin	Label	Kind	Functions
1	3V3	Power
2	5V	Power
3	GPIO2	GPIO	I2C1 SDA
4	5V	Power
5	GPIO3	GPIO	I2C1 SCL
6	GND	Ground
7	GPIO4	GPIO	GPCLK0
8	GPIO14	GPIO	UART TXD
9	GND	Ground
10	GPIO15	GPIO	UART RXD
11	GPIO17	GPIO
12	GPIO18	GPIO	PCM CLK, PWM0
13	GPIO27	GPIO
14	GND	Ground
15	GPIO22	GPIO
16	GPIO23	GPIO
17	3V3	Power
18	GPIO24	GPIO
19	GPIO10	GPIO	SPI0 MOSI
20	GND	Ground
21	GPIO9	GPIO	SPI0 MISO
22	GPIO25	GPIO
23	GPIO11	GPIO	SPI0 SCLK
24	GPIO8	GPIO	SPI0 CE0
25	GND	Ground
26	GPIO7	GPIO	SPI0 CE1
27	ID_SD	Special	GPIO0, HAT EEPROM I2C SDA
28	ID_SC	Special	GPIO1, HAT EEPROM I2C SCL
29	GPIO5	GPIO
30	GND	Ground
31	GPIO6	GPIO
32	GPIO12	GPIO	PWM0
33	GPIO13	GPIO	PWM1
34	GND	Ground
35	GPIO19	GPIO	PCM FS, SPI1 MISO
36	GPIO16	GPIO	SPI1 CE2
37	GPIO26	GPIO
38	GPIO20	GPIO	PCM DIN, SPI1 MOSI
39	GND	Ground
40	GPIO21	GPIO	PCM DOUT, SPI1 SCLK

Gotchas

5 known issues

A 3 A supply caps USB at 600 mA. With anything less than a 5 V, 5 A supply, the Pi 5 limits all downstream USB devices to 600 mA combined. Use the 27 W supply for USB drives.^[4]
GPIO moved to the RP1 chip. Libraries that poke the old Broadcom GPIO registers, such as RPi.GPIO, do not work on the Pi 5; use gpiozero (with its lgpio backend) or libgpiod.^[8]
Cooling for heavy loads. It handles typical desktop use without active cooling but can throttle under continuous heavy load; the Active Cooler or the official case fan prevents that.^[5]
3.3 V only. The GPIO pins are 3.3 V. Do not connect 5 V signals or components to them.^[3]
Little current per pin. Each GPIO pin can supply up to about 16 mA and all pins together about 50 mA; drive motors and other loads through a transistor or driver board.^[4]

What changed

From the specs

Since the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Spec	Raspberry Pi 4 Model B	Raspberry Pi 5
Chip / SoC	Broadcom BCM2711	Broadcom BCM2712 with Raspberry Pi RP1 I/O controller
CPU	4 × Cortex-A72 (ARMv8, 64-bit)	4 × Cortex-A76 (Armv8-A, 64-bit)
Clock	1.5 GHz at launch; 1.8 GHz in the current product brief	2.4 GHz
RAM	1, 2, 3, 4 or 8 GB LPDDR4	1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 GB LPDDR4X
Storage	microSD card; USB boot	microSD card; NVMe via the PCIe connector and an M.2 HAT
GPU	VideoCore VI	VideoCore VII
Input voltage	5 V, 3 A via USB-C	5 V, 5 A via USB-C (5 V, 3 A with a 600 mA USB limit)
Wireless	2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac Wi-Fi; Bluetooth 5 and BLE	2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5; Bluetooth 5 and BLE
Ethernet	Gigabit; PoE+ with a separate PoE+ HAT	Gigabit, with PoE+ support
Video	2 × micro-HDMI; composite on the 3.5 mm AV jack; DSI display connector	2 × micro-HDMI, dual 4Kp60
Expansion	CSI camera connector	Single-lane PCIe connector; 2 × combined camera/display connectors; UART, fan and RTC battery connectors
Launch price	From US$35 (1 GB)	US$60 (4 GB), US$80 (8 GB)

Power and battery

3 facts

Recommended supply: 5.0 A^[4]
USB peripheral budget: 1.6 A (600 mA with a 3 A supply)^[4]
Typical bare-board draw: 800 mA^[4]

Size and mechanical

1 facts

Board size: 85 × 56 mm^[6]

Mechanical drawing (PDF)

History and use today

Editorial

History

Announced in September 2023 and shipping that October, the Pi 5 was the first flagship Pi with silicon designed in-house: the RP1 south bridge handles USB, Ethernet, GPIO and cameras, freeing the BCM2712 for computing.^[5]

Still useful for

The fastest Pi and the one to buy for desktops, NVMe-based servers, AI accelerators on PCIe and anything that strained a Pi 4.

Projects from the archive

2 builds

Sources

10 sources

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