- Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache
- VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2
- Dual 4Kp60 HDMI® display output with HDR support 4Kp60 HEVC decoder
- LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM (4GB and 8GB SKUs available at launch)
- Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi®
- Bluetooth 5.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
- microSD card slot, with support for high-speed SDR104 mode
- 2 × USB 3.0 ports, supporting simultaneous 5Gbps operation
- 2 × USB 2.0 ports
- Gigabit Ethernet, with PoE+ support (requires separate PoE+ HAT)
- 2 × 4-lane MIPI camera/display transceivers
- PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals (requires separate M.2 HAT or other adapter)
- 5V/5A DC power via USB-C, with Power Delivery support
- Raspberry Pi standard 40-pin header
- Real-time clock (RTC), powered from external battery
- Power button
No actual PCIe or M.2 connector on the board, the M.2 hat won’t be available at launch, and it appears to block the required(?) coolers from being fitted.
Why anyone bothers with Pi Foundation boards any longer is beyond me, there are so many better SBCs. The rockpro64 launched a full year before the Rpi4, back in 2018, and had PCIe, SATA cards, NICs, and a sweet NAS case to go with it. It could boot from USB drives right away, unlike the Rpi4, it didn’t have power supply issues unlike the Rpi4, and it had eMMC support unlike the Rpi4, among many other benefits like a faster CPU, again having launched a full year prior.
I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the Pine64 I bought from their Kickstarter. The thing lasted 4 months before it stopped booting. I have no faith in any subsequent products.
You shouldn’t weight your opinion so heavily with anecdotal evidence… you should really realize that was just unlucky, and a statistical anomaly.
There were reports that many of the original Pine64 Kickstarter boards had this bootloop problem. While I understand this was one of there first products, I still don’t want to sink money into something when better and more stable options are available.
If that’s true then they fixed any quality issues on subsequent boards, so you questioning the stability and quality of the current boards is no longer substantiated… but I’m curious what you would consider a more stable option? Surely not anything from the Pi Foundation, as they have had numerous issues with the PSU to USB booting to many others problems as recent with their last major board, the Pi4, which I find unacceptable in my opinion.
Meanwhile, anyone that supported their Kickstarter got screwed.
Why would I bother when you’re obviously just going to pick it apart, just like you did with the Pi immediately after asking that question. You like the Pine64, great. Good luck with that. I won’t touch them with a 10 foot pole. That’s my opinion. Have a nice day.
No, I’m going to look at the actual reliability and quality of the boards objectively. I’m questioning your opinion, and asking you about it, and you’re getting offended and insecure by basic questioning and fact checking.
The fact is that Pine64 boards have been better than Pi boards since the Pi3 when the Rock64 had a real gigabit port, unlike the Pi3 (even though they lied and said it did)… and could boot from eMMC, unlike the Pi3. I still can’t believe people actually run an OS on sdcards. And it was faster. The separation grew drastically on the launch of the Rockpro64, which launched an entire year prior to the Pi4, could boot from USB right away, could boot from eMMC, had a PCIe slot instead of a stupid hat system so it could take legit SATA cards and NIC cards on it. And it had a faster CPU and was cheaper. And did I say, launched an entire year prior. Let me put that into perspective, because the Pi4 struggled with USB booting for an entire year after launching. So you could have better boot options, better hdd interfacing, better mainline Linux support, and a faster CPU for a full two years before Pi4 even got USB booting and fixed their shitty PSUs.
Be objective. In what way am I wrong? How am I being unfair?
Not required. And it might block the OFFICIAL cooling case, but it’s a Raspberry Pi. There will be a hundred different custom cooling options soon.
The problem is that the M.2 thing still is a HAT, and basically sits about 10mm above the main board, leaving no room for proper active or passive cooling - or at least making it very complicated to achieve. Putting the M.2 slot at the bottom of the main board would have been a good solution that would have avoided a lot of problems.
I still can’t get over the tower cooler available for the Pi 4.
It’s completely unnecessary and I love it