Raspberry Pi has one other new product to introduce this week, a continuation of its AI-centric merchandise for the Raspberry Pi 5. The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ is available in two variations, a 13 and 26 tera-operations per second TOPS and continues its partnership with Hailo.
Recent from the information that Raspberry Pi now has its personal branded SSDs, micro SD playing cards and a bumper for the Raspberry Pi 5. Raspberry Pi has additionally introduced its third AI-centric product within the type of the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+.
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You could be considering that this seems to be acquainted, and you might be partially appropriate. It seems to be similar to the beforehand launched Raspberry Pi AI Package and it additionally makes use of a Hailo-8 neural community inference accelerator. However the AI Package+ sees the accelerator constructed into the board, and never through an M.2 interface. Nevertheless, it nonetheless makes use of the PCIe interface, operating at Gen 3 speeds. Very like the Raspberry Pi SSD which additionally runs at PCIe Gen 3, indicating that Raspberry Pi might shift (in the event that they have not already) the default PCIe pace from Gen 2 to three in a software program replace.
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The brand new Raspberry Pi AI Package+ is available in two variants. The 26 TOPS variant supplied by a Hailo-8, and a 13 TOPS Hailo-8L model, matching the efficiency of the Raspberry Pi AI Package. Raspberry Pi additionally lately launched the Raspberry Pi AI Digital camera package, which doesn’t use a Hailo accelerator. As a substitute the Digital camera package makes use of a Sony IMX500 “Clever Imaginative and prescient Sensor” which isn’t straight similar to Hailo boards. However, we’re engaged on a benchmark check that we are able to use to match the efficiency of all three units.
| Mannequin | TOPS Efficiency | Worth |
|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ Hailo-8 | 26 | $110 |
| Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ Hailo-8L | 13 | $70 |
| Raspberry Pi AI Package | 13 | $70 |
| Raspberry Pi AI Digital camera (Sony IMX500) | Not identified | $70 |
The 26 TOPS variant is made to deal with bigger networks, operating them faster than different Raspberry Pi accelerators. The 26 TOPs variant may also run a number of networks concurrently, one thing that we are going to be testing with our 26 TOPs overview mannequin.
In case you are operating the most recent model of Raspberry Pi OS, then it is going to mechanically detect the on-board Hailo accelerator, making it obtainable to be used in AI functions together with rpicam-apps and Picamera2.
The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ comes with 16mm spacers (offering clearance for the Lively Cooler), stacking header and flat flex cable to connect with the PCIe connector on the Raspberry Pi 5. We’ve bought one on the desk, and we will be testing and evaluating it to the opposite Raspberry Pi AI merchandise in a full overview.
