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Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB)

At $305 for the bare board the 16GB Pi no longer undercuts an N150 mini PC. Buy it for GPIO and tinkering, not value.

$305 starting price, checked 2026-10-26

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MakerRaspberry Pi
TypeSingle-board computer
ChipBroadcom BCM2712, 4x Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz
Memory16GB LPDDR4X
StoragemicroSD / NVMe via HAT (not included)
Starting price$305 (16GB board only)
Barebone price—
Stock when checked—
Price sourceOfficial store, checked 2026-10-26
Agent tierCloud-model agent
Power5V/5A USB-C supply recommended (27W) (source)
Benchmark4.4 tok/s generating with Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (Q4_K_M); llama.cpp b9307, CPU/OpenBLAS, tg128. Measured on: Raspberry Pi 5 16GB. (source)

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