Should you get a 4GB Raspberry Pi 5?

Depends on what you need it for. Simple Desktop use and retro gaming seem to work fine on a 4GB Pi 5. They seem to be in stock nd available at different times.

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[CyberDunk]

I remember when the PS1 was cutting edge tech, now you can play the games in a browser on a computer that can fit in your pocket! I got my RPI5 in the post yesterday from pimoroni and have been rewatching all your videos to get it set up right. Really happy with it so far, I got the 8gb version but it looks like the 4gb version would have been good enough. Gives me another excuse to buy a second one! Great video, I look forward to seeing more.

[Mister-Gee-]

I picked up a couple (4GB and 8GB) in The Pi store on their Black Friday discounted event last week. Although I already had a press pack of both models I find the 8GB is better for a desktop replacement and the 4GB fine for RetroPi, or Home assistant .

Will you be doing a video showing the RTC and deep sleep, etc. For me it's a game changer.

[tafkawac]

Thanks Lee, another great video. Really informative.
My opinion on the RPi5 - I'm a little disappointed with it. It's a 720/1080 device at best. I was hoping I'd be able to hook up to a TV and use as a nice native 4k media player but It's poor. Playing 4k apart from the stuttering which I could put down to the fact we're early to the OS, the thermals are worrying. I'm not convinced about the long term viability of the silicon - it runs too hot even with the officer heatsink/fan on. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong case-use for it and I should use for less resource intensive usages.

[_marblewater]

Exactly what i was looking for! Дякую!

[teamskeet]

Depends on your needs, I got the 4gb version, headless, dual NVME, installed Dietpi, qbittorrent server, SFTP server and Jellyfin...I can't get memory usage to break 800 mb at peak. The Pi is not economical vs mini PCs' and best bang for the buck, but the Pi 5 is one fast and fun little SBC

[zacmitchell_]

No, it's too much. 640k is more than anyone should ever need.

[SmithyScotland]

Yes, because coolcomponents had 50 in stock this morning.

[DarkestVampire]

In my honest opinion: Get an 8GB, the price difference isnt huge and its always good to have more ram when you need it, as oppsed to running out of it.

[bomberman]

4gb are more than enough to emulate old system with 2mb of ram at the best. Maybe doing other tasks can be a problem, but i don't think there is any problem emulating anything up to the ps2. Try yuzu, maybe there something can change. Emulating a ps2 will probably just get less than 100mb.

[MrGadankh]

Maybe you should compare, RPI 5 with ORPI5, which one is better. Price looks similar.

[uncaringbear]

I'd be happy if I could get any RPI5 right now, nevermind 4 or 8GB.

[mrbb]

In the USA we can't even get the 8GB Pi5 yet. Only the 4GB model is shipping from pre-orders

[pgtmr]

My experience with Pi4s was 8GB models were faster, they could be overclocked higher. That was with 3 4GB models and 3 8GB models. My 4GB models were all older though. I don't expect it to make a difference with Pi5, unless somehow whatever you're doing loads up on the ram. I mean even games don't load the whole game into memory. Also, tabs in the browser? Just open another Pi instead of having a thousand tabs across the top on one browser on one computer. Try closing them occassionaly too. 😀 Smoother than having 2 browsers on 2 screens on one pi. Playing Hulk on Gamecube as per your Retropie 64bit OS lite install. Pi OS seems to like 2900 instead of 3000. Retropie so far stable at 3000/900 for me, going to push it a little more. Hulk gameplay feels fine, sound is a little skippy. Very playable. I'm not picky on counting frames.

[peejae]

I wish there's a retro emulation handheld based off of this chipset. It just needs a 3:2 display and a large fast charging battery.

[RafaCoringaProducoes]

ETA prime did a video pointing pi4 8gb ram was kinda useless, but seen the coments here, i guess 8gb ram could be useful for: servers, windows wor, etc

[Toobielove]

Hihi I'm thinking of getting 1 for retro gaming for my 4k tv but I'm don't know if it can do the CRT-Royale shaders well in retroarch for consoles up to PS1/Saturn. If it wouldn't be too much troublesome, can you do a video of retro gaming featuring the CRT-Royale shaders? 😅Veri thanks in advance! XDDD

[essetee]

The only problem is to buy 1. I gave up on raspberry pi and switched over to orange pi 5. The orange-pi5 still blows away the raspberry qua performance.

[ralphmcmahan]

before watching I'd say the 4GB is probably fine for gaming, I'd rather have the 8GB for desktop daily use
since I am still waiting for mine to arrive, I have to guess

[Sternhammer]

Stumbled across this video as I am about to buy a Pi5 and wondered whether I need an 8GB. Couple of questions, are you running a multi boot OS? I see you switched the OS to boot off of an SD card for the PS2 emulator. What case do you have the Pi 5 in?

[kamalkarnati]

Bottom line is price matters. I need to know whether price goes up or down in near future....