General discussion • Pi5 8GB vs 16GB - Geekbench 6

After my last post, which was only about visual changes, the question now is whether there are any changes in performance.

I bought the new Pi5 with 16GB 3 days ago and have been waiting for possible firmware updates. Now I installed Geekbench 6 on a new SD card (Samsung Evo 2024 128GB) and tested it on both models.

Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB):
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9890308

Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB):
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9890474

Results (8GB vs 16GB):
Single-Core: 837 vs 796
Multi-Core: 1711 vs 1584

YES! The new 16GB is slower than the 8GB... and the CPU on the 16GB model is up to 2 degrees hotter than my older model with less RAM and uses the same amount of watts (idle and load).

Do you have the same results?

Statistics: Posted by BitByte — Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:37 pm

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