The specifications and prices have gradually increased as the years passed after the 2012 launch. Customers can buy a 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 for around $80 yet the 16GB version pushes that list price past the $100 barrier to $120.
Pi supremo Eben Upton told The Register, "We've had people interested in building cost-effective clusters for applications like computation fluid dynamics, and the feeling there is that 4GB/core is a good balance."
Also, "while Raspberry Pi OS is very polished from a memory footprint perspective, more generic distros tend to use a bit more space: you could imagine someone who wanted to run Ubuntu selecting the 16GB variant to offset this."
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