Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 Mini PC - Which Is Right For You

In this video, we compare the Raspberry Pi 5 and the Intel N100 mini PC to help you decide which one is best suited for your needs. We'll dive into the specs, performance, and features of both devices to give you a clear understanding of what each has to offer so that you have all of the information you need to make an informed decision.

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0:00 Intro
1:02 Pi 5 & N100 Setups
4:03 Test Process
8:02 Results & Final Thoughts

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[LivingLinux]

YouTube playback on a Pi 5 is not a software issue, it's a hardware issue. The Pi 5 has no hardware decoders for VP9, nor AV1. You can force YT fall back to h264 with the browser plugin h264ify.

[iankester-haney]

The real advantage of the N100 is compatibility. Some server software doesn't support Arm. Especially if you want to use OpnSense or PfSense.

[JeffGeerling]

9:13 - I think that hits the nail on the head. I see the resistors for indicating 1/2 GB of RAM on the board... I have to wonder if they're sitting on a 1 or 2 GB Pi 5 model that could be sold for $40 or $45. That would make the low-end Pi 5 a great option and bring back some of the price advantage if you don't need lots of RAM for projects, but want some of the speed or CSI/DSI lane performance of the Pi 5.

[achraf_hnaien]

I recently sold my new pi 5, it was my first experience with raspberry pi
Ssd won't work i had to edit config files etx
I bought firebat ak2 with n100 8gb ram for 90€ new and it works sooo good 👍🏻

[Luke-san]

I bought a Beelink S12 Pro .. only supports 16GB, not, I inserted a 32GB memory module as some others also did this and it seems to work just fine. Been playing with Proxmox a couple of days now and seriously impressed.
I had/have all PI's just not the 5. Price seems very hard to justify. Ok power consumption is a bit higher except for the fact that I just eliminated 2 running PI4's and I have plenty more power and memory left according to Proxmox. And the most important thing. It has a nice case, and more importantly, it all just seems to work. Great PI community except for the fact that for most things I had to spend hours or days to get stuff working sometimes. I like those N100 mini things.

[Smittron]

Thanks for the video. I'm using an RPI Zero 2w to run Volumio, an RPI 3B+ to run LibreElec (Kodi) and an RPI 4 with 2 GB RAM to run Home Assistant. I'm using a Beelink N100 to dual boot Windows 11 Pro and Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. Life is good.

[DrB]

Excellent comparative review. Thank you.

[MikkeleTech]

The comparison is quite well made, thank you.

[SKIPWIRE]

N100 is very good. Asrock N100M owner, poor pcie support in Linux kernel 6.69. Do not recommend N100M. Recommend N100.

[RichardEricCollins]

Wow did not expect the CPU score to be so close. I would have thought higher CPU and a more mature CPU arch would have given Intel a bigger win.

[thegreyfuzz]

The Pi's are great, early adopter starting with the original Pi model A, I have over a dozen Pi's running up to the 4 8G, as the Pi 5 has steadily grown out of the 'acceptable pi price range'. I love my Pi's but I've started buying N100 boards for computing and using more ESP32 microcontrollers for projects.

[TimHunold]

Let's admit we outgrew RPi. Most got them for cheap tinker projects, maybe a small fraction used GPIO, but they are too limited. Hey, they are still pretty cool, like your first car, but now you know what you need and RPi came too little too late.

[Colin_Ames]

Great comparison. If I was looking for something like this I would choose the N100 over the Pi5. I have an 8GB Pi4 for dabbling with I/O and simple gaming.

[AlexanderWeurding]

Thanks! Great work! was looking for this.

[erikkarsies]

The DDR5 version of the N100 is up to 30% faster! The only scenario's that the Pi5 makes sense is if a SD card is sufficient and especially if you dont need much memory.

[hafenauer]

I have proxmox running on N100 which is mostly used for arr stack apps and jellyfin. It handles 1 video transcode 4k HDR to SDR or multiple without HDR or lower resolution. Good enough for me.

[bjarkekorsgaard]

Thank you very much for the nice benchmark comparison of the RPi/N100 computers. It gives a nice knowledge of what to select regarding the performance needs of CPU, GPU etc.

[oleurgast]

For GPIO: If you use ready2go projects (like building a PiStorm for an Amiga) definitly they are a plus. For theese projects you need the Pi anyways (and the correct version). But if you do your own projects as a beginner, it is quite simple to destroy GPIOs or the whole Pi. So using external hardware might be the better option. Esp. the PiPico is available extremly cheap and contains enough for most DIY experiments.

[impuls]

I have the T8 Firebat with ddr5 16gb 4800Mhz. In bios you set it to 4800Mhz and increase TDP from 15w stock to 30w. It cost less than the Pi5 mentioned here..Its faster at browsing than my 14900k on 1000mbit cat6. It must be something with the browser optimizing for this mini pc making browsing lightning fast. If you blink you wont see a new page loaded. The bios is pretty advanced so you can adjust how fast the cpu will ramp up its frequency. It also accepted undervolting so I can run turbo speeds for longer. The included copper heatpipe onboard is so much better than any of those poorly made you see on the Pi, and its included rofl. The network coverage isnt superb out of the box, but if you loosen the 1 of the 2 internal sticker wifi antennas inside it can become really good. I mounted each one in vertical plane and horizontal plane inside the housing. Since its just a sticker antenna it was an easy mod. (instead of both beeing parallell on top, I put one vertical on the sidewall). The best thing is that it just works, no insane hassle that some of the Android or Linux gives you.. I had one problem caused by win update, it reinstalled the wrong network driver so I had to redownload the correct one from Realtek site. Other than that it has been working fine.

[SISPX]

I have 2 Peladn WI-4's, I have been running open media vault on one of them for over a year 24/7 and it's never missed a beat. The other one runs proxmox with 3 VM's (1 x MS Server 2022, Home Assistant and Pi-Hole) no problem,
I would defo reccomend running these Mini PC's as they cost pennies per day.