Quote Originally Posted by Harrison View Post
Here is a link to some extensive early benchmarks.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/rasp...i-5-benchmarks

It's a massive performance increase over the existing RPi4. And as you said, the new in-house southbridge has really helped it.

Regarding PiStorm, I've been told they have no plans to support or utilise the RPi5. One reason being that the Amiga can't see more then 2GB ram (32bit address limited I'm assuming). Shame with such a performance increase.

It has got me wondering if the RPi5 would be the perfect hardware for the future of AmigaOS. They keep plowing on with tunnel vision with PPC. It's a dead technology and most are not prepared to pay silly money for proprietory motherboards. AmigaOS running on the RPi5 seems like it would be a great solution.
The CPU is in a different location on the PCB. I guess they've had to shove it over/lower for the Southbridge implimentation. This will cause issues on an A1200 for sure.
However, the CM 4 module is a different animal all together & I am sure there will be a CM5 released eventually. The Compute Modules sit very differently to the regular Pi boards.

Despite this, the pic of my hardware above pushes the Amiga A1200 to almost 2000 (Two Thousand) times faster than a stock A1200. It doesn't really need to be any faster; ....Or does it?
The I/O speed up would be nice though & the real beauty of my set up above is I can run Linux on my Amiga as well.