# What RAM capacity?

**URL:** <https://community.info-beamer.com/t/what-ram-capacity/1384>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 19, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/what-ram-capacity/1384 "2026-02-19T13:37:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![info.sarredis](https://community.info-beamer.com/user_avatar/community.info-beamer.com/info.sarredis/32/355_2.png) [@info.sarredis](https://community.info-beamer.com/u/info.sarredis)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/what-ram-capacity/1384/1 "2026-02-19T13:37:03Z")

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Hello, is there any advantage to getting a Raspberry Pi 5 with a lot of RAM for simply streaming videos/photos?

And if so, 4 or 8 GB?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![infobeamer-fw](https://community.info-beamer.com/user_avatar/community.info-beamer.com/infobeamer-fw/32/3_2.png) [@infobeamer-fw](https://community.info-beamer.com/u/infobeamer-fw)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/what-ram-capacity/1384/2 "2026-02-19T14:03:07Z")

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If you only play videos and images, even 1GB of RAM is would probably be sufficient. For a bit more flexibility and headroom I would still recommend the 2GB variant as that also allows more RAM to be used as IO cache. 4 or 8GB are only needed if you want to run a [browser locally](https://info-beamer.com/pkg/41861) on the device.

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**Author:** ![info.sarredis](https://community.info-beamer.com/user_avatar/community.info-beamer.com/info.sarredis/32/355_2.png) [@info.sarredis](https://community.info-beamer.com/u/info.sarredis)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/what-ram-capacity/1384/3 "2026-02-20T13:41:11Z")

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> [@infobeamer-fw](#):
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> If you only play videos and images, even 1GB of RAM is would probably be sufficient. For a bit more flexibility and headroom I would still recommend the 2GB variant as that also allows more RAM to be used as IO cache. 4 or 8GB are only needed if you want to run a [browser locally](https://info-beamer.com/pkg/41861) on the device

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Thank you for these answers.

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