Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade To The Raspberry Pi 400
Four years ago already the Raspberry Pi 400 was announced as a Raspberry Pi keyboard computer built around the Raspberry Pi 4, passively-cooled, and all packaged up nicely in a keyboard form factor. Announced earlier this month was the Raspberry Pi 500 as the successor and now built around the Raspberry Pi 5. For $90 USD this keyboard computer is a very versatile and convenient compact Linux PC.
Raspberry Pi sent over a Raspberry Pi 500 review sample that arrived a few days ago and I've begun putting it through its paces with plenty of benchmarks in being curious about the raw performance as well as the thermals with this upgraded keyboard computer. Long story short it's been a mighty fine unit and a big performance upgrade over the Raspberry Pi 400.
The Raspberry Pi 500 features the same quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 Broadcom SoC as found in the Raspberry Pi 5 with VideoCore VII graphics, 8GB of LPDDR4X-4267 memory, dual 4K@60 micro-HDMI display outputs, 802.11ac WiFi, Gigabit Ethernet, RP1 I/O controller, etc in matching the Raspberry Pi 5 specs. Passively cooling the SoC within this keyboard computer is a large aluminum heatsink.
