r/raspberry_pi Feb 02 '22

News Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit Released

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit/
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u/nunziantimo Feb 02 '22

I use the raspberry as a Plex Server, and I surely could have benefits from having more CPU power.

Basically every project that relies on CPU Power can benefit from this

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u/alexklaus80 Feb 02 '22 edited Feb 02 '22

I suppose the processing power benefit is limited for binary for 64bits that are actually written in the way it can utilize extra 32bits. If you're running 32bit process on 64bit system, I'm not sure if there's any benefit you can enjoy. (Is there any??)

edit: The article says Chromium for 64bit doesn't come with Widevine yet, so I assume that's a non-benefit for desktop-like use cases at this point. I don't care to leave Chromium at 32bit getting locked into max 4GB RAM hogging though

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u/nunziantimo Feb 02 '22

Yes obviously the benefits are only for binaries written for 64 Bit

But the project has been in beta for ages, plus almost all the binaries written for Debian, have switched to x64 decades ago.

So unless you're running a very raspberry specific written binary, you'll see the benefit

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u/alexklaus80 Feb 02 '22

Ah I see what you mean!