Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Reality Check
Is the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 actually an AI accelerator? In this video I run real benchmarks and test Hailo 10H performance on Raspberry Pi 5, including time-to-first-token, VLM inference, and large prompt prefills. I verify the official claims with practical tests and share if this GenAI HAT makes sense — and when. Test scripts: https://gist.github.com/AIWintermuteAI/e3409667a3d01df500c2248bb3b40a0f Official Pi AI Hat+ 2 page: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-hat-plus-2/ Some alternative option (RK3576) https://github.com/airockchip/rknn-llm/blob/main/benchmark.md#rk3576 https://youtu.be/a8OT3hG45o0 Waveshare Luckfox Core3576 Edge Computing Development Board,Rockchip RK3576 Octa-Core 2.2GHz,6 TOPS Computing Power NPU https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_EJRFo00 Sources: https://hailo.ai/blog/bringing-generative-ai-to-the-edge-llm-on-hailo-10h/ https://hailo.ai/products/hailo-software/model-explorer/generative-ai/ https://github.com/hailo-ai/hailo-apps/tree/main https://hailo.ai/developer-zone/documentation/hailort-v5-2-0/?sp_referrer=api/python_genai_api.html https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/when-and-why-you-might-need-the-raspberry-pi-ai-hat-plus-2/ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/20/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2-review-a-40-tops-ai-accelerator-tested-with-computer-vision-llm-and-vlm-workloads/ https://youtu.be/jRQaur0LdLE?si=qeHEoWAhLs5lShH3