# 5.0 40-pin 800x480 TFT Display without Touchscreen

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This 5.0" TFT screen has lots of pixels, 800x480 to be exact, and an LED backlight. Its great for when you need a lot of space for graphics. These screens are commonly...

## Pricing

- **Price:** $52.10 (inc GST) — $47.36 AUD, exc GST
- **Quantity discounts:** 10+ $45.95 (exc GST) · 50+ $45.00 (exc GST)

## Availability & dispatch

- Available with a lead time — expect dispatch between Aug 19 and Aug 24.

## Description

This 5.0" TFT screen has lots of pixels, 800x480 to be exact, and an LED backlight. Its great for when you need a lot of space for graphics. These screens are commonly seen in consumer electronics, such as miniature TV's, GPS's, handheld games car displays, etc. A 40-pin connector has 8 red, 8 green, and 8 blue parallel pins, for 24 bit color capability. **This version does not have touchscreen attached** [It's exactly the same TFT display as PID 1596 but without the resistive touch panel so it is a little less expensive.](https://core-electronics.com.au/5-0-40-pin-tft-display-800x480-with-touchscreen.html) This is a "raw pixel-dot-clock" display and does not have an SPI/parallel type controller or any kind of RAM. The display is supposed to be constantly refreshed, at 60Hz, with a pixel clock, V sync, H sync, etc. There are some high end processors such as that used in the BeagleBone that can natively support such RGB TTL displays. However, it is extremely rare for a small microcontroller to support it, as you need dedicated hardware or a very fast processor such as an FPGA. Not only that, but the backlight requires a constant-current mode boost converter that can go as high as 24V instead of Adafruit's other small displays that can run the backlight off of 5V For that reason, [Adafruit are carrying it as a companion to the Adafruit RA8875 driver board in the store, which is a chip that can handle the huge video RAM and timing requirements, all in the background. That's the best way to interface this display to just about any microcontroller](https://core-electronics.com.au/ra8875-driver-board-for-40-pin-tft-touch-displays-800x480-max.html) (including Arduino & friends) [If you want to control with from an HDMI or DVI output, check out Adafruit's TFP401 driver board.](https://core-electronics.com.au/tfp401-hdmi-dvi-decoder-to-40-pin-ttl-breakout-without-touch.html) If you are an advanced electronics enthusiast [you can try wiring this directly to your processor, but it Adafruit don't have any support or tutorials for that purpose.](https://core-electronics.com.au/40-pin-tft-friend-fpc-breakout-with-led-backlight-driver.html)

5.0" 40-pin 800x480 TFT Display without Touchscreen (14:55)

## Technical Details

- Dimensions with Screen Backing: 120mm x 75mm / 4.7" x 3.0"
- Screen Dimensions: 110mm x 67mm / 4.3" x 2.6"
- Weight: 61g
- [There is no resistive touch screen so pins 37-40 are NC. ](https://core-electronics.com.au/attachments/localcontent/KD50G21-40NT-A1_927051bd24e.pdf)
 
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