Pineboards, maker of many hardware boards for the Raspberry Pi, has demonstrated just how far PCIe support has come in the Raspberry Pi 5.
Using one of their latest HATs, Pineboards managed to not only run an external AMD GPU on the Raspberry Pi 5, but also play an open source 3D racing game.
Here's the setup, which Pineboards says took about an hour. The Raspberry Pi 5 with the Hat uPCIty Lite board was used. The board allows you to connect any PCIe card to the PCIe bus on the Raspberry Pi 5. It has one PCIe X4 slot, but it's open - meaning you can connect an X16 card to it.
Pineboards connected an AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU (the particular card appears to be manufactured by Gigabyte) to the uPCIty Lite. A 400W power supply was used to power the GPU.
After some minor driver fixes provided by Coreforge and some minor tweaking, the Pineboards staff was able to play SuperTuxKart, an open source 3D racing game on a Raspberry Pi 5 with full 4K display support.
Pineboards plans to detail the process on their website and also demonstrate it at Maker Faire Hannover. More information is now available on Pineboards' Twitter account.
Here's the setup, which Pineboards says took about an hour. The Raspberry Pi 5 with the Hat uPCIty Lite board was used. The board allows you to connect any PCIe card to the PCIe bus on the Raspberry Pi 5. It has one PCIe X4 slot, but it's open - meaning you can connect an X16 card to it.
Pineboards connected an AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU (the particular card appears to be manufactured by Gigabyte) to the uPCIty Lite. A 400W power supply was used to power the GPU.
After some minor driver fixes provided by Coreforge and some minor tweaking, the Pineboards staff was able to play SuperTuxKart, an open source 3D racing game on a Raspberry Pi 5 with full 4K display support.
Pineboards plans to detail the process on their website and also demonstrate it at Maker Faire Hannover. More information is now available on Pineboards' Twitter account.