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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Technical Specifications

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Key Improvements from Pi 2 Model B to Pi 3 Model B:

image Next Generation QUAD Core Broadcom BCM2837 64bit processor

image Processor speed has increased from 900MHz on Pi 2 to 1.2Ghz

image BCM43438 WiFi on board

image Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) on board

image Upgraded switched power source up to 2.5 Amps (can now power even more powerful devices over USB ports)

 

Other Technical Specification:

image 40pin extended GPIO

image 4 x USB 2 ports

image 4 pole Stereo output and Composite video port

image Full size HDMI output

image CSI camera port for connecting the Raspberry Pi cameraRaspberry Pi camera

image DSI display port for connecting the Raspberry Pi touch screen displayRaspberry Pi touch screen display

image Micro SD port for loading your operating system and storing data

image Upgraded switched Micro USB power source (now supports up to 2.5 Amps)

image The same form factor as the Pi 2 Model BPi 2 Model B, - the only difference is the location of the onboard LEDs

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  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to madshenriksen +3
    There's dedicated hardware for lots of things, but I'd certainly be interested in seeing if the Pi3 can be put to this kind of purpose -- my NAS is getting kind of old, and uses a lot more juice than a…
  • madshenriksen
    madshenriksen over 10 years ago in reply to spannerspencer +3
    Exactly Spanner Spencer. The Raspberry approach was chosen because it could fill my need at a very low cost, and with low power (I haven't look at the power consumption of other NAS hardware). I haven…
  • Problemchild
    Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to cstanton +3
    Yes Chris. to be honest the software RAID under Linux has surpassed the speed of the HW implementations for years at least under x86 ... Obviously the ability to off load that function to some H/W is good…
  • e14 Contributor
    e14 Contributor over 10 years ago

    Very disappointing...

     

    Pi 3 should have shipped with 2GB DDR-3 RAM, instead we got trendy "wifi" and "bluetooth".

    We know this could have been the case, because of the Odroid-C2.

     

    As for performance, Raspbian is ARMv6 compiled with gcc 4.6.3

    Pi 2 at 1Ghz + RAM at 500Mhz +  ARMv7 binaries  floating point unit="neon_vfpv4" and -ffast-math + gcc 4.9.3 will bench pretty much the same . . .

     

    It might be theoretically a 64 bit board, but when its running geriatric 32 bit ARMv6, its just marginally over clocked and has crippled hardware by the binaries.

     

    I never thought I would ever have to post such a negative comment, but it is best to be honest.

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    e14 Contributor over 10 years ago

    how can i get a quote for this product?

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  • mconners
    mconners over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    I managed to pre-order one, I don't know when it'll show up.

     

    Mike

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  • Problemchild
    Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to cstanton

    Yes Chris. to be honest the software RAID under Linux has surpassed the speed of the HW implementations for years at least under x86 ...

    Obviously the ability to off load that function to some H/W is good but the Linux implementation is "standard" at least in Linux and can be easily fixed if your system goes off pop unlike a customRaid implementation done on Chip

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  • Problemchild
    Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to rew

    Agreed just got my C2 this afternoon ...I'l link in my review l8r@ the weekend

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  • e14 Contributor
    e14 Contributor over 10 years ago in reply to rew

    Thanks for the recommend, I checked out the Odroid C2.  Looks good; love the gig ethernet, didn't care much about the WiFi, and better processor.

    Thanks man, good find.

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  • rew
    rew over 10 years ago in reply to spannerspencer

    e.g. when speed is not an issue, a raspberry pi can very well function as a NAS+ . The plus because it runs a fully open and accessible OS, so that you can program it to do other things a normal NAS would not be able to do.

     

    A case where speed is not an issue is for example when you want to stream video. As soon as the NAS is able to cope with the throughput of the stream, there is no use in being "even faster".

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  • cstanton
    cstanton over 10 years ago in reply to madshenriksen

    Sweet, I'll look forward to it! Thanks.

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  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to madshenriksen

    Awesome! Can't wait to check it out!

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  • madshenriksen
    madshenriksen over 10 years ago in reply to spannerspencer

    I'll see if I got time this weekend for it image

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