The ultra-cheap, ultra-hackable Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W offers a bump in both multi- and single-threading performance compared its 2015 namesake.
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 packs a 1GHZ CPU that the manufacturer claims packs 5x the performance for multithread workloads than 2015’s Raspberry Pi Zero. 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 with 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM. As well as offering a significant jump in multi-threading, Raspberry Pi says the upgraded processor in the Zero 2 W delivers a 40% performance boost in single-thread executions.
