Raspberry Pi release higher performance AI HAT+ — 13 and 26 TOPS variants
Raspberry Pi has another new product to introduce this week, a continuation of its AI-centric products for the Raspberry Pi 5. The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ comes in two versions, a 13 and 26 tera-operations per second TOPS and continues its partnership with Hailo.
Fresh from the news that Raspberry Pi now has its own branded SSDs, micro SD cards and a bumper for the Raspberry Pi 5. Raspberry Pi has also announced its third AI-centric product in the form of the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+.
You may be thinking that this looks familiar, and you are partially correct. It looks very similar to the previously released Raspberry Pi AI Kit and it also uses a Hailo-8 neural network inference accelerator. But the AI Kit+ sees the accelerator built into the board, and not via an M.2 interface. However, it still uses the PCIe interface, running at Gen 3 speeds. Much like the Raspberry Pi SSD which also runs at PCIe Gen 3, indicating that Raspberry Pi may shift (if they haven't already) the default PCIe speed from Gen 2 to 3 in a software update.
The new Raspberry Pi AI Kit+ comes in two variants. The 26 TOPS variant provided by a Hailo-8, and a 13 TOPS Hailo-8L version, matching the performance of the Raspberry Pi AI Kit. Raspberry Pi also recently released the Raspberry Pi AI Camera kit, which does not use a Hailo accelerator. Instead the Camera kit uses a Sony IMX500 “Intelligent Vision Sensor” which is not directly comparable to Hailo boards. But, we are working on a benchmark test that we can use to compare the performance of all three devices.
