The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W review

I got my hands on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. It's more than twice as fast as the original Pi Zero and Pi Zero W, but what other secrets does it hold?

I X-rayed it to find out what's *inside* this little Pi! It's not cheap making these videos, so if you like them, please consider supporting this channel:

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Contents:

00:00 - The Pi Zero 2 W
00:27 - Specs
02:03 - Meet the RP3A0-AU
02:54 - X-rays reveal an easter egg!
04:35 - Performance
06:17 - Overclock and thermals
07:34 - Emulation and Null 2
08:35 - Power consumption
09:32 - Competitors: Radxa and Banana Pi
10:30 - RAM, supply issues, and price
11:27 - Outtro and outtakes

[MagicMoose]

Excited to be unable to buy one of these for the next 3 years!

[wasitacatisaw]

9:51 A wild Chris appears! I love it when tech YouTubers support and reference each other. Such a healthy community.

[linuxrobotgeek]

You, Explaining Computers and ETAPrime all announced the board at the same time lol. Can't wait to get one

[Debloper]

This will fit perfectly for purposes where ESP32 doesn't cut it (you need a general purpose OS for flexibility in your project), and a full Raspberry Pi is an overkill (either from compute or cost perspective). For e.g. as an infra/SRE guy, I want to use half a dozen of Pi Zero 2 to drive (old/salvaged) LCD screens all around my home to display various dashboards & notifications, so I can spend time with my family better without having to constantly check my phone or run to desk intermittently to check for incidents.

If I can actually get my hand on any of those, that is...

[WRIT]

Jeff, I like your channel very much. I also like EC's. I'm very glad to see you give him a mention in support. Glad to see you reinforce another rather than compete against.

[John.z]

To me, this is just highlighting how late the release version of 64bit RasPiOS is! Now there is even a Zero-sized board that could benefit from it (with care about RAM usage).

[rtubedtube]

Love your bloopers Jeff! Thanks for adding them.

[circleofowls]

Nice job on the x-ray microscope images, I have a GE Nanomex at work that we use for failure analysis, it's amazing how useful that kind of detailed imaging of the internal structure of a PCB can be.

[zactron]

That's awesome! Raspberry Pi and Framework are basically the only technology companies I can genuinely get excited about right now, so it's awesome seeing them continue to throw everything they have at their mission statement.

[roblatour]

This is the only channel where I click the thumbs up button before watching the video - well done as always Jeff

[markazkk]

ETA prime got it stable at 1.3 with heat sink. Can’t wait to buy a few of these 😄

[realpolitik]

I really love the bloopers at the end. Keep up the good work.

[BigWin]

I am a big fan of your content. Your approach settles well with me. Thank you very much!

[aschmelyun]

I am so excited to get my hands on one of these. My original Zero W's are still going 3 years strong outside in the Florida heat!

[davidg]

This is great! I love the Pi 0W for low-power projects that need more than a microcontroller. The 02W's extra power will be great for some of my projects that need just a little more oomph improve responsiveness.

[jmlineb]

I always learn so much from your videos. I just bought a Zero 2 W from Adafruit while they are in stock and 1 to a customer. Here today, gone tomorrow, I'm sure.

[jamesfrankel]

Much love to Jeff and Red-Shirt Jeff. Allways love the content and get a big kick from the outtakes.

[keithmiller]

Hi from the UK, another great video Jeff. Knowing it can run 64 bit is incredibly useful. I run either Ubuntu (64 bit only) or Raspberry Pi OS 32 64 bit on my Pi 4Bs depending on the use case. The 512 MB RAM is likely to be a limiting factor but in time hopefully falling memory prices will give us a 1 GB version. For £13.50 at the Pi Hut in the UK it is priced cheaply enough that it can be bought to just ‘play with’. Looking forward to the next video.

[BrianThomas]

LOL... Dude I love love love your channel. Great 👍🏾 man. I've watched this a few times now and I just love how down to earth and real you are.

[siberx]

Thanks for taking power measurements! I gotta get my hands on one of these; I use a Pi Zero to drive one of the HQ cameras in an astrophotography setup (with some complicated USB network trickery to connect it to the main Pi 4 running the whole setup) and download/transfer times for each long exposure are pretty atrocious on the original Zero. A beefed up CPU would probably really help here!