Raspberry Pi 500+ Benchmarks: Mechanical Keyboard Computer, 16GB RAM & NVMe SSD
Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 25 September 2025 at 03:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 6. 28 Comments.
While still having the same four Cortex-A76 cores, the Raspberry Pi 500+ with NVMe storage and 16GB of RAM was able to perform much faster code compilation now than with the Raspberry Pi 500.
The Raspberry Pi 500+ is much more capable now for serving as a developer desktop with being able to compile code much faster now thanks to the increased RAM and faster and more reliable storage.
👁 PyBench benchmark with settings of Total For Average Test Times. Raspberry Pi 500 was the fastest.
👁 PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: json_loads. Raspberry Pi 500+ was the fastest.
Of course, for pure CPU bound workloads like 7-Zip compression or Python scripting there isn't much of a difference going from a Raspberry Pi 500 to Raspberry Pi 500+ given the same SoC.
Similarly, the PHP performance was unchanged with the Raspberry Pi 500+.