Raspberry Pi’s 16 GB Pi 5 completes their lineup: from 2 GB ($50) to 16 GB ($120).
Raspberry Pi sent me the Pi 5 used in this video for testing and review. They did not pay me to make this video, nor have any editorial input or review before the video was live.
Mentioned in this video:
– Raspberry Pi 5: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/
– 52Pi Armor Lite: https://52pi.com/products/armor-lite-v5
– All my Pi 5 16 GB benchmarks: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/21#issuecomment-2579400396
– D0 Stepping of BCM2712 SoC: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/new-2gb-pi-5-has-33-smaller-die-30-idle-power-savings
– SDRAM Tuning Benefits for Pi 5: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/raspberry-pi-boosts-pi-5-performance-sdram-tuning
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Contents:
00:00 – Are they out of their minds?
01:10 – Not too much, not too little
02:27 – N100: a better deal?
02:57 – Cosmetic improvements
03:53 – Keeping up with the Joneses
04:30 – LLMs and AI
05:12 – Better performance
06:46 – Consolidation
07:50 – Fun and 4K Gaming
09:04 – Should you buy it?
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