Raspberry Pi 5 gets a cheaper 2GB option

There’s a caller Raspberry Pi 5 successful town: a 2GB variant that knocks the terms of the microcomputer down to $50. The little RAM doesn’t needfully mean it comes with less capabilities, conscionable that it won’t beryllium apt to immoderate RAM-intensive tasks. Raspberry Pi Foundation CEO Eben Upton says the instrumentality is “functionally identical to its predecessor.”

When the Raspberry Pi 5 was released past year, it lone came successful a 4GB variant for $60 and an 8GB mentation for $80, making them some $5 much costly than the corresponding models of the Raspberry Pi 4. While the 2GB mentation mightiness not beryllium perfect for doing things like moving AI applications oregon utilizing it arsenic a full-blown media center, Upton says galore customers volition apt find that it “works perfectly well” for less-demanding usage cases.

The Raspberry Pi 5 is the Foundation’s astir powerful, featuring its in-house RP1 I/O controller, on with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor moving astatine 2.4GHz. To make the 2GB model, the Raspberry Pi Foundation built a cost-optimized mentation of its processor that eliminates immoderate functionality it doesn’t need. The effect is simply a cheaper spot with the aforesaid features, including a PCI Express 2.0 interface.

You tin acquisition the cheaper Raspberry Pi 5 enactment from authorized resellers, specified arsenic CanaKit and PiShop.us.