The 16GB option might be overkill for the average home gamer, but it’s a welcome addition for edge cases that truly need the extra RAM.
Are you a power user wishing you could get a Raspberry Pi 5 with even more RAM? Well, now you can pick up one with a whopping 16GB of RAM.
This capability means there are now 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB boards for everything from the lightest tasks to more demanding, memory-intensive workloads.
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If you’ve been keeping up with the Raspberry Pi 5 news, there isn’t much in this release to surprise you. These boards all run the new optimized D0 stepping of the Broadcom BCM2712 processor, which includes support for memory capacities greater than 8GB.
The 16GB Pi is possible because RAM maker Micron has supplied a single package containing eight of its 16Gbit LPDDR4X die, allowing the 16GB of RAM to be placed on a single chip.
