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Raspberry Pi 5

Raspberry Pi 5

Tested by Bret Weber Last updated

Geekbench 6

1,901

multi-core · 890 single-core

Power draw

6.1W load

Peak temp

87°C

stock cooling, sustained load

Price

$82.38

Performance Summary

Raspberry Pi's 5 runs on the Broadcom BCM2712, an ARM chip with 4 cores, and ships here with 2GB of RAM. Our benchmarks put its Geekbench 6 result at 1,901 multi-core and 890 single-core, with 7-Zip compression reaching 11,521 MIPS. Raw floating point throughput came in at 28.18 GFLOPS in Linpack. Thermal testing recorded a peak CPU temperature of 87°C under sustained load.

Specification
Basic Specifications
Price
$82.38
RAM2GB
SoC
VideoCore VII
ArchitectureARM
CPU Cores
4 cores
4× Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz
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Price History

£62.00 at The Pi Hut, up from £52.00 on 1 October 2026. Shown as $82.38: we convert at the daily exchange rate and only update the dollar price when the rate moves noticeably. Checked daily since 12 September 2026 (45 days). Low $70.24, high $82.38 in this window.

Recent price changes

  • 22 October 2026Official store · The Pi Hut: out of stock
  • 1 October 2026Official store · The Pi Hut: £52.00 → £62.00 ($70.24 → $82.38), price rise
Out of stock at that pricePrices are before tax and shipping. Non-US stores are converted at the daily ECB rate, and the dollar price only changes when the rate moves noticeably; hover a point for the store’s own price.

Every figure above comes from hardware run in-house by Bret Weber, on the exact OS build, kernel, firmware and boot device listed here. Boards are tested to a fixed procedure so results stay comparable between them: see our testing methodology for how each benchmark is run.

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Detailed Reviews

Full write-ups on bret.dk, using the same benchmark data:

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)890 #17 of 72
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)1,901 #32 of 72

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)3,334 MIPS #14 of 118
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)11,521 MIPS #32 of 113

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)28.18 GFLOPS #30 of 80
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)2.78 GFLOPS/W #14 of 74

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)1,642 #9 of 118
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)4,309 #29 of 109

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)2,297 #30 of 96

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)3.86 kH/s #14 of 108
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)15.42 kH/s #39 of 104

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)1,169 #26 of 87

AI & LLM Performance

Large Language Model inference performance

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)9.94 tok/s #14 of 66
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)1.07 tok/W #11 of 64
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)0.12 tok/$ #5 of 59

Storage Performance

Disk I/O throughput measured with FIO

fio Storage Performance - microSD

Higher Speeds are Better • Raspberry Pi 64GB (64GB microSD)

4K Random Read
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)22 MB/s
4K Random Write
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)14.9 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - M.2 NVMe

Higher Speeds are Better • Crucial P5 Plus (1024GB M.2 NVMe)

4K Random Read
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)866.1 MB/s
4K Random Write
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)590.9 MB/s

Network Performance

Ethernet and WiFi throughput measured with iPerf3

iPerf3 Network Performance

Higher Speeds are Better

Ethernet Up
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)937 Mbps
Ethernet Down
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)941 Mbps
WiFi Up
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)254 Mbps
WiFi Down
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)204 Mbps

Power & Thermal

Power consumption at idle and under various workloads

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)6.1W #60 of 105
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)9.3W #35 of 64
Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB)10.1W #39 of 75

Frequently Asked Questions

How fast is the Raspberry Pi 5?

In our testing the Raspberry Pi 5 scored 1,901 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 890 in single-core, with 11,521 MIPS in multi-core 7-Zip compression.

How much power does the Raspberry Pi 5 use?

We measured the Raspberry Pi 5 drawing 6.1W under sustained CPU load.

How much does the Raspberry Pi 5 cost?

The Raspberry Pi 5 sells for £62.00 ($82.38) at the official store (The Pi Hut) as of 25 October 2026 for the 2GB RAM configuration, although it was out of stock at the last check. Since we began tracking it on 12 September 2026 the price has ranged from $70.24 to $82.38. Dollar prices are converted at the daily exchange rate; all prices are before tax and shipping.

See how the Raspberry Pi 5 stacks up against another board, side by side.