Enthusiast JeffGeerling Successfully Overclocks Raspberry Pi 5 to 3.4 GHz

TapTechNews July 31st news, enthusiast JeffGeerling in the newly uploaded video, overclocked the Raspberry Pi 5 motherboard main frequency (2.4 GHz) to 3.4 GHz.

Geerling used the new firmware and NUMA simulation patch, and had previously increased the main frequency of the Raspberry Pi 5 to 3.14 GHz in the 2024 Pi Day event, and now he has pushed the main frequency of the Raspberry Pi 5 up to 3.4 GHz again, and frankly admitted in the video description: This way will lead to loss of warranty, ordinary users should not try at home.

Geerling said there are also constitution differences among Raspberry Pi 5 motherboards, and their abilities to overclock are different. In the test, he picked a golden sample and then continuously adjusted the voltage settings, and finally overclocked to a maximum of 3.4 GHz. TapTechNews attached the relevant video as follows:

In the GeekBench6跑分, the single-core score of the Raspberry Pi 5 before overclocking was 794 points, and the multi-core score was 1612 points. After overclocking, the single-core score of the Raspberry Pi 5 reached 1121 points, increasing by 41.2%, and the multi-core score was 2219 points, increasing by 37.6%.