New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120

Re:New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 by klibertp on Thursday January 09, 2025 @09:15AM (#42645734)

Pi 4, depending on the environment, also needed active cooling, in my experience. Especially in summer, with room temperature above 28*C, it couldn't handle any load until I added a fan. (The good thing about it was that I could control the fan with PWM easily - it was fun :))

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Re:New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 by nottorp on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:08AM (#42646977)

But the Pi 3 didn't. You'd think with the process improvements they'll be able to have more performance in the same heat envelope, but they want to do their own Pentium IV...

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Re:New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 by rbanffy on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:38PM (#42650040)

Process improvements can only go that far - register banks, speculative execution, instruction reordering, many execution units and so on use power, but are needed because the processor can be faster, but the memory is still much slower.

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Re:New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 by nottorp on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:34AM (#42655455)

I'd agree except the laptop i'm typing this on seems to use 4.5 W right now, the whole system :)

I don't expect Apple like power/performance ratio from everyone, but they could at least try...

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