4K Gaming on Raspberry Pi 5

4K Gaming on Raspberry Pi 5

It works! I got an AMD GPU running externally on the Pi 5’s PCI Express bus, and it lets me game in 4K. At least with games as old as the card I’m using. But there’s a lot of promise here. Can we do hardware video transcoding? Maybe! More info in my...
My Raspberry Pi has a better GPU than Apple’s M4 Pro

My Raspberry Pi has a better GPU than Apple’s M4 Pro

Go to https://surfshark.com/redshirtjeff for 4 extra months of Surfshark at an unbeatable price! The Pi 5 can now game at 4K Ultra, with Ray Tracing: ON. Check out my blog post for the complete guide to setting up your own AMD 7000-series graphics card on a Pi:...
Tiny Radxa X4 unites Intel x86 with Raspberry Pi GPIO

Tiny Radxa X4 unites Intel x86 with Raspberry Pi GPIO

The Radxa X4 unites an Intel N100 SoC with a Raspberry Pi RP2040. The best of both worlds, right? Let’s explore thermals, power delivery, peripheral and OS support, and even take Linux and Windows for a spin on the PCIe Gen 3×4 NVMe SSD! I purchased all the...
EXTREME Overclock (requires hacking Raspberry Pi firmware)

EXTREME Overclock (requires hacking Raspberry Pi firmware)

WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! Code is here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-overvolt If you attempt to replicate this experiment, your warranty will most certainly be void, and there’s a good chance you kill your Pi attempting this overclock. You’ll...
NUMA NUMA make Raspberry Pi go ZOOMA

NUMA NUMA make Raspberry Pi go ZOOMA

Raspberry Pi 5 gets 10-15% speedup with 100 line Linux kernel patch. And what if we could save 50 megawatt-hours of power annually, just with a software patch for older Pis? I’ll walk through the NUMA Emulation patch that supposedly boosts Pi 5 performance, as...