The 2GB Raspberry Pi 5, a new member of the Raspberry Pi 5 family that continues what the company says is its mission to bring high-performance general-purpose computing to the widest possible audience, is now available for purchase from approved resellers for only $50, Raspberry Pi has announced. The new variant joins the older 8GB and 4GB models, which remain available for $80 and $60, respectively, according to retail listings.
Key specs include:
- Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache
- VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2
- Dual 4Kp60 HDMI display output with HDR support
- 4Kp60 HEVC decoder
- LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM (2GB, 4GB, and 8GB)
- Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 5.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
- microSD card slot, with support for high-speed SDR104 mode
- 2 × USB 3.0 ports, supporting simultaneous 5Gbps operation
- 2 × USB 2.0 ports
- Gigabit Ethernet, with PoE+ support (requires separate PoE+ HAT)
- 2 × 4-lane MIPI camera/display transceivers
- PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals (requires separate M.2 HAT or other adapter)
- 5V/5A DC power via USB-C, with Power Delivery support
- Raspberry Pi standard 40-pin header
- Real-time clock (RTC), powered from external battery
- Power button
Some promos for the Raspberry Pi 5:
Raspberry Pi on the benefits of its OS and who the 2 GB model is aimed toward:
When running on modern hardware, the practical result has been a modern operating system with a dramatically lighter resource footprint than most general-purpose Linux distributions. So, while our most demanding users — who want to drive dual 4Kp60 displays, or open a hundred browser tabs, or compile complex software from source — will probably stick with the existing higher memory-capacity variants of Raspberry Pi 5, many of you will find that this new, lower-cost variant works perfectly well for your use cases.
Discussion (4 replies)
Join Discussion →Who is so cheap that they need to get the 2GB model just to save $10?!
Purpose built use case. Ex, I really don’t need more than 2GB for a pi hole, and I can even run some distributed computing on it with 2GB
Yeah but with a $10 difference, does it even matter? I feel like this is kind of a useless SKU.
I mean, if I need 2GB or less of ram, why would I spend $10 more?
I’ve actually been buying 8gb pi 5s, but I’ve been slow adding them to my distributed computing setup. Thinking about it, 4GB model may be the odd one out. If you need ram or don’t really know what you need, just spend the 79 and get the 8gb model. If you don’t need ram, get the 2GB version and in a pinch, use zram. Use cases where you really need 3-3.5GB ram are the probably the window where you get the 4GB version