When the Raspberry Pi 4 was released ... That includes the 4 GB Pi 4, the power supply, heatsink, an SD card, the USB3 to SATA adapter, a cheap SSD drive, and a pair of Micro-HDMI cables.

With the older Raspberry Pi 4, you can get away with a simple passive cooler in the form of an aluminum heatsink. We found that the Pi 5 will thermal throttle within minutes if you don’t add a ...

With reviews of the performance of the heatsink being very positive ... be the overall spec improvements in the Raspberry Pi 500. The jump from the 4/400 to the 5/500 is pretty significant ...