According to user reports, a Raspberry Pi Foundation chip can be massively overclocked, which can provide a significant boost in performance. However, this doesn’t suddenly turn the Raspberry Pi RP 2350 processor into a performance monster.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation offers various single-board computers as well as microcontrollers. The RP 2350 is a further development of the RB 2040 processor, but its computing performance must be put into context. Compared to a modern processor from AMD or Intel, it is a very slow chipset. They are not designed to run full desktop operating systems or even games, or in most cases even to provide video output. Instead, they are intended to control external sensors and actuators.
However, Lilybooting now reports that the RP 2350 can apparently be overclocked very well and by an almost unimaginable factor for desktop CPUs. The official clock speed is 150MHz, but exceeding 500MHz seems possible without any additional cooling. With additional cooling and increasing the voltage to 1.9V, the Raspberry Pi processor can exceed 600MHz.
If the voltage of the RP 2350 processor powering the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board is increased to 3.05V, it is possible to achieve clock speeds in excess of 800MHz, which corresponds to an overclock of more than 5x. Whether it makes sense to run the processor at such extreme overclocking for long periods of time is questionable. More wear and therefore shorter life is to be expected, and this is likely to be more pronounced at higher core temperatures if cooling is not upgraded.
