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What would you do with 16G of RAM on a Raspberry Pi 5?

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dougw 7 months ago
  1. Would you run a larger operating system?
  2. Would you use it for some larger model AI?
  3. Would you use it for running a larger number of concurrent applications?
  4. Would you use it for robotics and ROS or autonomous systems?
  5. Would you use it for video editing?

I would like to see if it is suitable for video editing...

Please comment on what you would use it for or what you think it would be good for below. 

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    0 cstanton 7 months ago

    I never really had a problem with the Raspberry Pi's 1GB to 8GB variants until I realised that swapping to storage probably contributed to the death of my SDCards.

    Now that I run Raspberry Pis for longer periods, such as using them for proxy/DNS servers, Minecraft servers, and automatic mapping, I find that I hammer both the RAM and the Swap a bit more as log files increase in size and data is moved in/out of RAM.

    I can see it also helping for using a web browser with multiple tabs, but then I would have thought that would be a given.

    Devices such as Valve's Steam Deck have 16GB of RAM, which it allocates between VRAM and system RAM dynamically, allowing up to 8GB of texture memory, and I can see that being a 'thing' on the Raspberry Pi where it's used for games.

    Valve's derivative of Wine, Proton, is being ported to arm64, and that's going to have implications for the Raspberry Pi.

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    0 cstanton 7 months ago

    I never really had a problem with the Raspberry Pi's 1GB to 8GB variants until I realised that swapping to storage probably contributed to the death of my SDCards.

    Now that I run Raspberry Pis for longer periods, such as using them for proxy/DNS servers, Minecraft servers, and automatic mapping, I find that I hammer both the RAM and the Swap a bit more as log files increase in size and data is moved in/out of RAM.

    I can see it also helping for using a web browser with multiple tabs, but then I would have thought that would be a given.

    Devices such as Valve's Steam Deck have 16GB of RAM, which it allocates between VRAM and system RAM dynamically, allowing up to 8GB of texture memory, and I can see that being a 'thing' on the Raspberry Pi where it's used for games.

    Valve's derivative of Wine, Proton, is being ported to arm64, and that's going to have implications for the Raspberry Pi.

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    0 shabaz 7 months ago in reply to cstanton

    The latest Apple laptops call it unified memory I believe. I've been planning to migrate to Apple but the old Windows laptop seems to have self recovered for a little while longer!

    16GB is kind of getting useful for running a few VMs, but wish there was a much bigger option, say 48GB Pi for £200 for AI and for VM purposes would be a bit of a game changer!

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