Raspberry Pi 4 overclocked to 2.1 GHz

Amin Mahpour, PhD
1 min readOct 7, 2019

When you think Raspberry Pi has reached its maximum performance, you are reminded again that you are wrong. You now can overclock you credit-card sized single board computer CPU to 2.1 GHz!

If you are ready to give it a try, steps to overclock your Raspberry Pi are detailed in Tomshardware website. Be warned that the overclocking without proper cooling can damage your Raspberry Pi. It is worth noting that not all Pi boards can reach to the maximum CPU clock of 2.1 GHz because of the silicon lottery phenomenon. Luckily, I was able to successfully overclock my Pi 4 as can be confirmed in a screenshot below.

Have fun experimenting on your Pi!

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Amin Mahpour, PhD

Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. I write about science and technology.