[TriEmbed] Fwd: New Raspberry Pi Zero 2!

[Ed Blackman]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 03:11:15AM -0400, Scott Hall via TriEmbed wrote:
> From Elektor Magazine's YouTube channel: "The new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W!"
> https:// <https://youtu.be/3m--7hGiTcE>https://youtu.be/3m--7hGiTcE
> 
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> > In many cases, the Zero 2 W can be used as a drop-in replacement for the
> > Zero W and when doing so it will greatly speed up the host application. It
> > is about 5 times as fast as a Zero W. According to Raspberry Pi, the Zero
> > 2W has about 85% of the performance of a Raspberry Pi 3.

Note that extra performance comes at a power cost, if that's important for your application.  The Zero 2 W has a higher default power consumption: about a third higher at idle, and almost 3X higher under high load.  You can turn things off to reduce power consumption, but not as low as the original Zero W.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/look-inside-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-and-rp3a0-au
(at the bottom of the "Performance" section).

-- 
Ed Blackman