Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: New $15 board offers up to 5x the performance of its predecessor

guest · Oct 29, 2021

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: New $15 board offers up to 5x the performance of its predecessor
October 28, 2021
https://www.zdnet.com/article/raspb...-up-to-5x-the-performance-of-its-predecessor/

The cheapest member of the Raspberry Pi computer family now has a successor: the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W , a 64-bit, quad-core follow-up to Zero W costing just $15.

Launched today by British computer-maker Raspberry Pi, the Pi Zero 2 W features a 1GHZ CPU that the manufacturer claims packs 5x the performance for multithread workloads than 2015's Raspberry Pi Zero.
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The 65mm x 30mm board features a quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 CPU, clocked at 1GHz. At its heart is a Raspberry Pi RP3A0 system-in-package (SiP), integrating a Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC (the same used in the Raspberry Pi 3, albeit clocked-down slightly) with 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM.

It's also a firm favorite of Raspberry Pi co-founder, Eben Upton. "Of all the products we've launched, Zero is still the one I'm proudest of: it most perfectly embodies our mission to give people access to tools, and to eliminate cost as a barrier," Upton wrote in a blog post announcing the new device.
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That said, the discerning may notice some differences in heft: to compensate for the higher performance of the Zero 2 W, Raspberry Pi has had to pack in more heat-conducting copper to help keep the device cool while running. "If you hold a Zero W and a Zero 2 W in your hands, you can really feel the difference in weight," said Upton.
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To accompany Zero 2 W, Raspberry Pi has also launched a new official USB power supply. It looks a lot like the original power supply unit for Raspberry Pi 4 PSU, but with a USB micro-B connector in place of the USB-C connector.
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Raspberry Pi: New product: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15

It’s been nearly six years since we unleashed the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero on an unsuspecting world.
We’ve sold nearly four million units of Zero, and its $10 wireless-enabled big brother Zero W, and they’ve made their way into everything from smart speakers to hospital ventilators. But where our larger products have grown steadily more powerful over the years, we’ve never found a way to pack more performance into the Zero form factor.

Until today.
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