DRAM is pretty expensive these days. In the latest issue of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine, we rounded up a range of project ideas that make good use of the 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, helping you select the right amount of RAM for your applications. This article forms part of a larger feature on how to make your memory go further.

With the same powerful BCM2712 system-on-chip (SoC) as the other Raspberry Pi 5 models, the 1GB variant offers a more affordable entry point for users who need extra processing grunt and/or features, such as a PCIe connector to add a Raspberry Pi NVMe SSD or AI HAT+. To this end, we’ve rounded up a range of project ideas that make good use of the 1GB variant’s performance without requiring a large amount of RAM.

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