/g/ - Is raspberry pi 5 16gb worth the price in 2025? if - Technology

Anonymous

08/30/25(Sat)21:42:00 No.106438623

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Anonymous 08/30/25(Sat)21:42:00 No.106438623 Archived

Is raspberry pi 5 16gb worth the price in 2025? if there are better devices for browsing please post em

Anonymous
08/30/25(Sat)21:43:58 No.106438642

Anonymous 08/30/25(Sat)21:43:58 No.106438642

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>>106438623
get one of these for $100 and upgrade the RAM to 16GB. later down the line put a 45 watt xeon in it. i love mine (m73 tiny)

Anonymous
08/30/25(Sat)21:43:59 No.106438643

Anonymous 08/30/25(Sat)21:43:59 No.106438643

>>106438623
Odroid h4 invalidates it's existence at that price point. Why even bother when you can get x86 boards just as efficient with way more power.

Anonymous
08/30/25(Sat)21:45:54 No.106438661

Anonymous 08/30/25(Sat)21:45:54 No.106438661

>>106438642
high power draw for shit network services. my 4 draws 5W or smth

Anonymous
08/31/25(Sun)02:09:23 No.106440218

Anonymous 08/31/25(Sun)02:09:23 No.106440218

>>106438623
orange pi with an 8 core cpu, 32gb ram and working hardware video decoders/encoders

Anonymous
08/31/25(Sun)05:11:45 No.106441110

Anonymous 08/31/25(Sun)05:11:45 No.106441110

I've been using a Pi 5 16GB as a desktop recently. It's performs decently for most use cases, but web browsing is honestly trash. Ok for lightweight websites, but anything with a lot of JS will kill performance.

Not sure why, but I figure browser's JS runtimes just aren't optimised for the Pi's ARM.

I'm now using a ThinkCentre USFF and it's vastly better and cheaper for the purpose.