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Revised Raspberry Pi 5 chip comes with unexpected power savings (arstechnica.com)
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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Pi 5 doesn't require 5v 5amp. You just get limited power on downstream USB devices (like max 1 or 0.5 amp, not really that bad). It will run just fine on 3 amp PSU.