Earlier this month the [1]Raspberry Pi 5 16GB was announced for finally pushing the Raspberry Pi single board computers beyond an 8GB limit for RAM. This opens up the Raspberry Pi 5 to new use-cases, more multi-tasking, and other applications where 8GB of RAM / 2GB per core was a bottleneck. In my tests thus far of the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB it's been working out well and helping the performance of some workloads by reducing the memory pressure / swapping.

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Raspberry Pi kindly sent over a Raspberry Pi 5 16GB review sample that I have been putting through its paces the past week thus far. It's been working as intended with 16GB of RAM allowing for more demanding workloads/applications to now comfortably run on the Raspberry Pi or even for those wanting a simple ARM-based Linux desktop and want to do a lot of multi-tasking or simply a lot of web browser use.

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The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB specifications are otherwise the same as the existing 2GB / 4GB / 8GB RAM versions in using a Broadcom BCM2712 SoC with quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 2.4GHz processor, VideoCore VII graphics, dual 4K@60 HDMI output, and all of the same connectivity. Though one minor difference is the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB reporting a board version of 1.1 rather than 1.0 and in turn using the D0 stepping of the BCM2712 SoC. Regardless of the RAM capacity/model, it's LPDDR4X-4267 memory being used across the different versions.

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The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is priced at $120 USD, compared to $80 USD for the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-16GB-Model

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=raspberry-pi-5-16gb&image=raspberrypi5_16gb_2_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=raspberry-pi-5-16gb&image=raspberrypi5_16gb_3_lrg

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=raspberry-pi-5-16gb&image=raspberrypi5_16gb_5_lrg