The Raspberry Pi just got juicer! Now with a Quad-Core 64bit CPU, WiFi & Bluetooth!
The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is the third generation Raspberry Pi. This powerful credit-card sized single board computer can be used for many applications and supersedes the original Raspberry Pi Model B+ and Raspberry Pi 2 Model B.
Whilst maintaining the popular board format the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B brings you a more powerful processor, 10x faster than the first generation Raspberry Pi.
Additionally it adds wireless LAN & Bluetooth connectivity making it the ideal solution for powerful connected designs.
Raspberry Pi 3 - Model B Technical Specification
Broadcom BCM2387 chipset
1.2GHz Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53
802.11 bgn Wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.1 (Bluetooth Classic and LE)
1GB RAM
64 Bit CPU
4 x USB ports
4 pole Stereo output and Composite video port
Full size HDMI
10/100 BaseT Ethernet socketbr
CSI camera port for connecting the Raspberry Pi camera
DSI display port for connecting the Raspberry Pi touch screen display
Micro SD port for loading your operating system and storing data
Micro USB power source
Raspberry Pi 3 - Model B Features
Now 10x Faster - Broadcom BCM2387 ARM Cortex-A53 Quad Core Processor powered Single Board Computer running at 1.2GHz!
1GB RAM so you can now run bigger and more powerful applications
Fully HAT compatible
40pin extended GPIO to enhance your “real world” projects.
Connect a Raspberry Pi camera and touch screen display (each sold separately)
Stream and watch Hi-definition video output at 1080
Micro SD slot for storing information and loading your operating systems.
10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket to quickly connect the Raspberry Pi to the Internet
Top comments
Unforgettable1
29 Feb 1634#35
Gonna wait for the Pi 3.1415926.....
RexCogidubnus
29 Feb 164#64
You're missing the subtle difference between a b and a B :wink:
USB 2.0 max theoretical 480 Mb/s, typically you won't see more than half of that in actual use. So 240 Mb/s which converted to a B is 30 MB/s. The slowest drive in the graph there is 27.2 MB/s so that would almost max out the USB 2.0 connection....
fishmaster
29 Feb 163#26
Screw Plex, Kodi, media serving, I'm going to use this to make a Robot and a Teasmade and a helicopter and also a Fallout 4 VDU Terminal
praevalens to EN1GMA
29 Feb 163#23
...boobs!
All comments (119)
MrFizzy
29 Feb 16#1
Nice spec increase for the price. I'll take one.
gabesdad
29 Feb 16#2
Already ordered. Expected more trouble ordering after the Pi Zero supply cockup!
welshblob to gabesdad
29 Feb 161#10
Apparently they have 200k already made and capacity to make 100k a week! Looking at the stats it appears they have sold another 3m devices last year which must have been mostly pi2's.
Just to note that the pi hut also has the upgraded 2.5A psu for £6 so I added one of those to my order.
Element14 seem to be sleeping this morning!
Dav1dF to gabesdad
29 Feb 16#58
Apparently they made 300,000 for the launch and don't anticipate the issues they had with zero
stevej1976
29 Feb 162#3
Wonder if this will transcode plex
nublets2k to stevej1976
29 Feb 16#9
It's still using the same videocore gpu.
moelygaer1 to stevej1976
29 Feb 16#19
I have pled server running on a pi b the second
moelygaer1 to stevej1976
29 Feb 161#20
Yes my plex server runs happily on a pi b
oliversthomas
29 Feb 161#4
Also announced by Raspberry Pi organisation (coming later this year) v3 Model A & v3 compute module in the faq's here:
Nice to see another (mostly) fully compatible hardware update.
Built in wifi & Bluetooth will go down well with the kodi team, even if it's wifi-n only. Great for remote controls!
BungalowBill
29 Feb 162#5
Argh still no gigabit LAN, what is holding that back?
oliversthomas to BungalowBill
29 Feb 161#7
I think it's mainly down to chipset, compatibility and cost reasons.
Understandably they want to keep the total cost down and maintain backwards compatibility.
This is mainly designed as an educational tool, despite all of its other weird and wonderful implementations!
joedredd to BungalowBill
29 Feb 16#31
I thought that, then realised 100mbps is fast enough for most applications this is designed for and the CPU would be unlikely to process data quick enough to keep up with processing the incoming stream (depending what you're doing with that much data)
rev6 to BungalowBill
29 Feb 16#37
It wouldn't matter as it would never reach those speeds over USB 2.0
oliversthomas
29 Feb 163#6
The Ethernet is still shared over the USB bus for those wondering.
A couple of benchmark shots courtesy of The MagPi:
More benchmarks and details available on their site here:
Can this hardware decode HEVC? What about a 4K output?
welshblob to DrJogalog
29 Feb 16#15
The Videocore doesn't support the HEVC codec natively. The Pi2 should be able to decode 720p using the arm cores and sometimes up to 1080p but it all depends on bitrates. So I'd expect the Pi3 to be better at both of those but not 4k.
rev6 to DrJogalog
29 Feb 16#40
No.
hugh1988 to DrJogalog
29 Feb 16#53
I'd like to know too. I don't know if the decoding is done on the CPU or GPU. If it's GPU then I doubt it because that hasn't been upgraded. The PINE64 does support h265 4K output however.
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Opening post
The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is the third generation Raspberry Pi. This powerful credit-card sized single board computer can be used for many applications and supersedes the original Raspberry Pi Model B+ and Raspberry Pi 2 Model B.
Whilst maintaining the popular board format the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B brings you a more powerful processor, 10x faster than the first generation Raspberry Pi.
Additionally it adds wireless LAN & Bluetooth connectivity making it the ideal solution for powerful connected designs.
Raspberry Pi 3 - Model B Technical Specification
Broadcom BCM2387 chipset
1.2GHz Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53
802.11 bgn Wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.1 (Bluetooth Classic and LE)
1GB RAM
64 Bit CPU
4 x USB ports
4 pole Stereo output and Composite video port
Full size HDMI
10/100 BaseT Ethernet socketbr
CSI camera port for connecting the Raspberry Pi camera
DSI display port for connecting the Raspberry Pi touch screen display
Micro SD port for loading your operating system and storing data
Micro USB power source
Raspberry Pi 3 - Model B Features
Now 10x Faster - Broadcom BCM2387 ARM Cortex-A53 Quad Core Processor powered Single Board Computer running at 1.2GHz!
1GB RAM so you can now run bigger and more powerful applications
Fully HAT compatible
40pin extended GPIO to enhance your “real world” projects.
Connect a Raspberry Pi camera and touch screen display (each sold separately)
Stream and watch Hi-definition video output at 1080
Micro SD slot for storing information and loading your operating systems.
10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket to quickly connect the Raspberry Pi to the Internet
Top comments
USB 2.0 max theoretical 480 Mb/s, typically you won't see more than half of that in actual use. So 240 Mb/s which converted to a B is 30 MB/s. The slowest drive in the graph there is 27.2 MB/s so that would almost max out the USB 2.0 connection....
All comments (119)
Just to note that the pi hut also has the upgraded 2.5A psu for £6 so I added one of those to my order.
Element14 seem to be sleeping this morning!
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale/
Nice to see another (mostly) fully compatible hardware update.
Built in wifi & Bluetooth will go down well with the kodi team, even if it's wifi-n only. Great for remote controls!
Understandably they want to keep the total cost down and maintain backwards compatibility.
This is mainly designed as an educational tool, despite all of its other weird and wonderful implementations!
A couple of benchmark shots courtesy of The MagPi:
More benchmarks and details available on their site here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-3-specs-benchmarks
I get £30 with free p&p