Review Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Review: Plenty of memory

[Admin]

The Raspberry Pi 5 becomes the first Raspberry Pi with a 16GB RAM option but is it worth the extra money?

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[evdjj3j]

Will it play a 1080p Youtube stream without studdering?

 

[Mangocats]

What about power consumption and thermal performance of the various models? If we are operating a big CPU intensive app that utilizes more than 8GB of RAM, what happens thermally? Does a 'standard' 5A power supply keep up? Is there any significant difference in current draw / leftover capacity for peripherals?

 

[usertests]

Will it play a 1080p Youtube stream without studdering?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/can-raspberry-pi-5-handle-4k

What about power consumption and thermal performance of the various models? If we are operating a big CPU intensive app that utilizes more than 8GB of RAM, what happens thermally? Does a 'standard' 5A power supply keep up? Is there any significant difference in current draw / leftover capacity for peripherals?

It's going to use less power than the 8 GB model because it has the newer version of the silicon that the 2 GB model also uses. I doubt the 16 GB RAM package makes much of a difference.

 

[evdjj3j]

What about power consumption and thermal performance of the various models? If we are operating a big CPU intensive app that utilizes more than 8GB of RAM, what happens thermally? Does a 'standard' 5A power supply keep up? Is there any significant difference in current draw / leftover capacity for peripherals?

I would think 25W would be plenty of power.

 

[snemarch]

I’ll admit, opening 50 browser tabs is absurd

Apparently, my everyday work situation is absurd 😉

 

[Alex/AT]

Definitely for those who want to do speedy parallel builds of software for RPi on RPi. 8GB is just not enough for all-core builds with LTO.