It looks like a big improvement over the 4 but sadly needs active cooling or it throttles under load quickly. It has a new form factor which requires a new case too. Still there are a lot of great additions that make it a good upgrade.
RaspberryPi 5 Review
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-5
7 Comments
lysdexic@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
So, is anyone itching to buy one?
lud@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
I am but it's a bit too much money for "just because".
I also bought a pi 4 very recently.
lysdexic@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y
I'm on the same boat. I have a RPi4 that I briefly used as a personal computer, and even though I'd love to get a RPi5 I'm struggling to justify it. It sounds like it's around €100 for a 8GB version (board+case+power supply) and that's already in x86 MiniPC territory.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
They are a hard sell over tiny x86 systems still. Even my 3d printers don't use the gpio and the only thing I have used it for before, which is flashing coreboot to a laptop, is no longer needed both due to having a USB device for it as well as flasher only actually being needed the first time and some edge cases.
Most server things I just run vms on xcp-ng and containers on the vms. I'm also trialling nixos on some netbooks that were free for some misc stuff like home automation.
samus7070@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
For me it’s about power consumption. I wish there were more powerful arm based socs available. x86 is so inefficient compared to anything risc based that it feels wasteful.
agilob@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y
Exactly, for me RPI was supposed to be about low power consumption. Rpi4 is stretching it already, rpi5 with cooling won't be worth it .
ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev · 0 pts · 2y
I feel like it doesn't necessarily fit the market for a raspberry pi - I bought mine bc I needed little computing power running really small applications for me and my friends, but with better hardware on a raspberry pi, I feel like it strays from why a lot of people bought it: small computer, small computing power