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Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB)

host

$200

Used market: $120*

Manufacturer datasheet

Specifications

3 of 7 values have a recorded source
Os
Embedded·
Port Type
USB-A·
Provides Bus Power
yes·
Requires Asio Driver
no·
Max Usb Power Supply W
3
Default Usb Current m A
600
Release Year
2023·

Expert Audio Engineering Commentary

Headroom Notes

Raspberry Pi is one of the few host makers that publishes the downstream budget instead of the input rating: "5 V at 5 A (25W); or 5 V at 3 A (15 W) with a 600 mA peripheral limit". The 600 mA is the total for all four USB ports together, not per port, and it is what a board fed by an ordinary 15 W supply has to share between an interface, a keyboard and a drive. The 25 W supply raises it; the documentation page states the 600 mA case explicitly and that is the number recorded here.

Production Warning

The Pi 5 has no analogue audio output at all — the 3.5 mm AV jack of the Pi 4 and earlier boards is gone. Every headphone on a Pi 5 goes through USB or HDMI, so the host's own headphone output is not "unpublished" here, it does not exist.

* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~60% retained value). · checked on 8/5/2026