Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB)

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Class
SoC
Memory
8 GB LPDDR4X
Runs (Q4_K_M)
—
Bandwidth
17 GB/s
Released
2023-09-28
Price (US)
$175 new as of 2026-08
Price (Canada)
CA$244.95 new sourced, as of 2026-08
Sourcing and disambiguation notes

CPU-only decode on 1-3B models is reported across several blogs in the low single digits to low teens of tok/s, and the AI HAT+ NPU figures found were too inconsistent between sources to record. 17 GB/s is a straightforward LPDDR4X-4267 32-bit-bus calculation (4267 MT/s x 4 bytes), not a vendor headline figure. The 8GB board rose $30 to $145 in February 2026, from $80 at launch, in the second of two DRAM-shortage price increases since December 2025; the 16GB board nearly doubled to $205. Raspberry Pi Ltd has said these increases are meant to be temporary once DRAM pricing normalises. Re-checked 2026-08-28: prices rose further and the $145 announcement figure no longer holds at retail. Two Raspberry Pi Approved Resellers were verified in stock on that date -- PiShop US at $175 (SKU 8GB-9028) and Adafruit at $200 (product 5813, schema.org offer) -- so the recorded figure is the lower of the two and real street pricing spans $175-$200. raspberrypi.com's own product page returns 403 to automated clients, so the manufacturer's current list price could not be read directly. The Canadian price is from the official Canadian reseller, board only rather than a kit.

Specification sources

Measurements

Decode is token generation — the speed you feel while an answer streams. Prefill is prompt processing — the wait before it starts. Why bandwidth predicts decode speed.

What verified, single-source and estimated mean, and the same rows with every filter and sort in the benchmarks explorer.

Speed over time

What it can run

Fit is arithmetic, not a measurement — how it is computed. Against 8 GB; models that fit are listed largest first.