<story><title>New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/new-2gb-pi-5-has-33-smaller-die-30-idle-power-savings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alxjsn</author><text>I rather just buy used Lenovo Thinkcentere PCs on eBay. Way more power, cheaper and relatively small. There’s a lot of different CPU&amp;#x2F;RAM&amp;#x2F;DISK configurations you can find.&lt;p&gt;I’ve been buying these, throwing Fedora IoT, docker, and Tailscale on them and running them from different locations for personal projects.</text></comment>
<story><title>New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/new-2gb-pi-5-has-33-smaller-die-30-idle-power-savings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0cf8612b2e1e</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Some of the power savings could be chalked up to less RAM, because more RAM requires more power. But that doesn&amp;#x27;t explain all the results.
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Is there a calculation to estimate RAM power consumption? I keep wanting to get a low powered N100, and have been wondering if I use say 8 vs 16GB RAM, would that make a measurable power difference?</text></comment>