The Raspberry Pi 5 Compute Module 5 (CM5) is here! 🧵

The CM5 retains the same form factor (and mostly the same pinout) as the CM4, meaning it's a drop-in replacement. Just... it's 2-3x faster in every benchmark, and 1.5x more efficient!

But it also has PCIe Gen 3 support (unofficial, but it works great), boosting from 5 to 8 GT/sec, and two USB 3.0 ports, providing 10 Gbps of USB bandwidth (the CM4 only had 480 Mbps *total*!).

The IO board's been updated too, with an M.2 NVMe slot, a power button, USB-C power input, and a 4-Pin Pi fan header, while retaining other niceties like full-size HDMI and GPIO headers.

If you enjoyed this thread, make sure to check out some of my *other* videos on YouTube, on Level2Jeff:

And read my blog post, with full benchmarks and even more CM5 info!

And finally, *ALL* my test data (as always) is published in my GitHub repo: — that includes links out to all test runs, etc.

Good thing I’m awake for this real-time 😎

Are we finally getting out of the hole: "Too weak for desktop and too powerful to replace ESP32"? I never find any real use for Rasberries except at development and testing.

I really disappointed with my work on MirkoPC (2021), knowing that it can't run CM5 with NVMe, and other CM4-compatible boards can do it. It looks like as a soldering issue (mezzanine connectors were a nightmare). I'll check and replicate this issue on my board.

Cool! Love to hear an update on your battle with the time lord 😀. I have to revisit your video on Turing rk1. Maybe I can do a transition to infrastructure like you! BTW, this is the first long(ish) form video I watched on X. It still had a couple hiccups, but played fine.

Thanks for watching! And still working out the details on the time lord thing ;)