Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Launches At $50 USD

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Launches At $50 USD

To date the Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer has been offered with either 4GB or 8GB of system memory. The Raspberry Pi 5 4GB has retailed for $60 USD while the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB at $80 USD. For those needing something a little cheaper and not needing as much system memory, the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB model launched today...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-2GB-Launches

[monkeynut]

Be cool to see if there's any power consumption differences.

[StarterX4]

Now 1GB for $45 and 512MB for $42.50 😆

[AkulaMD]

Be cool to see if there's any power consumption differences.

Hope there is. Otherwise there's no point as the price of the 2GB version is a bit too high for many people.

[Quackdoc]

this seems way to high honestly, gonna be a hard pass, and im no stranger to low ram systems.

[ddriver]

Great for anyone looking to put money into something needlessly castrated into near uselessness.

[sdack]

Be cool to see if there's any power consumption differences.

Yep. Worst part of R-Pi 5 is the power draw and need for active cooling. The new R-Pi Zero variants are more interesting.

[uid313]

Raspberry sucks, it used to be cheap, now it is expensive.
Every single Raspberry generation have been plagued with problems from poor Ethernet performance, shitty power delivery, to heat problems, cooling difficulties and performance throttling, and Raspberry Pi Foundation is always very late to upstream patches and drivers into mainline Linux kernel and Mesa.

[ddriver]

It's become another arduino, asking a hefty brand premium. Nothing like asking 15$ for a 3$ bom product. Even crapple can't dream of them margins.

[schmidtbag]

Be cool to see if there's any power consumption differences.

In memory-intensive workloads, I would actually expect power consumption to go up, since cycles have to be wasted swapping things in and out of memory.
For everything else, the difference is likely negligible; I'd estimate not even a half watt. Perhaps it'd be another whole watt if they included a 2nd module, but I'm sure the 4GB+ variants are just drop-in replacements for the RAM.