Raspberry Pi 5 16GB — Benchmarks & Specs

Bottom line: how fast is the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB?

SpecPicks median: 2.1 tokens/sec across 5 cited single-user runs of 7-9B dense models at 4-bit (Q4) under ollama (range 2.0–2.6 tok/s), from Local AI Master (2 runs), Jeff Geerling (2 runs), It's FOSS. At the $369.99 Amazon price of the cheapest linked listing (checked 2026-10-22 04:13 UTC; prices change), that is a SpecPicks Value Index of 5.68 tok/s per $1,000. At 1080p Medium, the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB averages 61 fps in SuperTuxKart, per Raspberry Pi Forums. For local LLM inference it generates 1.4 tokens/sec running llama2:13b at q4_0 under ollama, per Jeff Geerling. In 7-Zip Multi-Thread it scores 10,944 MIPS, per Electronics For You. It has 16 GB of memory shared by the CPU and GPU, and the llama2:13b run above (13B parameters) is the largest model on file at 4-bit quantization on it. A second published run of the same setup measured 1.5 tokens/sec, per Jeff Geerling again, so expect 1.4-1.5 tokens/sec. Larger models have no sourced run on file.

Every figure above is a row in the tables below, and each row links out to the review or public benchmark database the number was taken from; the memory size is the on-paper spec; the SpecPicks median is computed here from the runs it names, each a row in the AI table, and the per-$1,000 figure divides it by the dated listing price. SpecPicks aggregates published measurements; it does not report first-party benchmark runs.