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The Raspberry Pi 3 is here! Hopefully some of you were still surprised by the announcement today.
Over the past four years, the Raspberry Pi has sold eight million units three million in the last year
alone and now on its fourth birthday a brand new upgraded Pi has been released. You can read
absolutely everything youd want to know about it in issue 43 of the magazine coming out on
Thursday but for now we thought wed give you the hard facts about this brand new Raspberry Pi.
And yes, it has wireless internet.
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Specifications
SoC: Broadcom BCM2837
CPU: 4 ARM Cortex-A53, 1.2GHz
GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV
RAM: 1GB LPDDR2 (900 MHz)
Networking: 10/100 Ethernet, 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.1 Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy
Storage: microSD
GPIO: 40-pin header, populated
Ports: HDMI, 3.5mm analogue audio-video jack, 4 USB 2.0, Ethernet, Camera Serial Interface (CSI),
Display Serial Interface (DSI)
Wireless radio
So small, its markings can only be properly seen through a microscope or magnifying glass, the
Broadcom BCM43438 chip provides 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless LAN, Bluetooth Low Energy, and
Bluetooth 4.1 Classic radio support. Cleverly built directly onto the board to keep costs down, rather
than the more common fully qualified module approach, its only unused feature is a disconnected FM
radio receiver.
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Wireless radio
Antenna
Theres no need to connect an external antenna to the Raspberry Pi 3. Its radios are connected to this
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chip antenna soldered directly to the board, in order to keep the size of the device to a minimum.
Despite its diminutive stature, this antenna should be more than capable of picking up wireless LAN
and Bluetooth signals even through walls.
Antenna
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SoC
Built specifically for the new Pi 3, the Broadcom BCM2837 system-on-chip (SoC) includes four highperformance ARM Cortex-A53 processing cores running at 1.2GHz with 32kB Level 1 and 512kB Level 2
cache memory, a VideoCore IV graphics processor, and is linked to a 1GB LPDDR2 memory module on
the rear of the board.
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SOC
GPIO
The Raspberry Pi 3 features the same 40-pin general-purpose input-output (GPIO) header as all the
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Pis going back to the Model B+ and Model A+. Any existing GPIO hardware will work without
modification; the only change is a switch to which UART is exposed on the GPIOs pins, but thats
handled internally by the operating system.
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GPIO
USB chip
The Raspberry Pi 3 shares the same SMSC LAN9514 chip as its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi 2, adding
10/100 Ethernet connectivity and four USB channels to the board. As before, the SMSC chip connects to
the SoC via a single USB channel, acting as a USB-to-Ethernet adaptor and USB hub.
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USB Chip
Benchmarks
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Want to know just how much faster the new Raspberry Pi 3 is? See it pitted against its siblings in our
benchmark series.
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Sysbench
Offering support for multi-threaded operation taking advantage of the four processing cores on the
Pi 2 and Pi 3 SysBench reveals just how far weve come since the original Raspberry Pi design. While
single-threaded performance has improved greatly, the biggest gains go to multi threaded
programs.
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Python GPIO
The Raspberry Pis GPIO pins are most commonly used with Python, but this leads to a CPU bottleneck.
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In this test, a simple RPi.GPIO program toggles a pin as rapidly as possible while a frequency counter
measures how quickly it actually switches.
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The classic twitch shooter from industry pioneer id Software, Quake III Arena is heavily tied to the
CPU performance of the Pi. The standard timedemo was run at 12801024, high geometric,
maximum texture detail, 32-bit texture quality, and trilinear filtering to obtain these results.
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Whetstone
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Developed by B.A. Wichman in the 1970s as a means of measuring a computers speed, the Whetstone
benchmark concentrates on floating-point performance. Despite its age, the benchmark offers a good
insight into the peak floating-point performance of a processor.
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Dhrystone
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Where Whetstone measures floating-point performance, Dhrystone was developed in the 1980s by
Reinhold P Weicker to measure integer or whole-number performance. As with its floating-point
equivalent, Dhrystone is still a useful synthetic benchmark for comparing different chips.
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Power draw
You cant get extra performance without a few sacrifices. The Pi 3 draws the most power of the test
group, but its extra performance means it spends more time at idle. Those looking for maximum
battery life should look at the Model A+ or the Pi Zero as an alternative.
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Excited by all this and the possibilites of the Raspberry Pi 3? Want to get one right now? Subscribers to
the print version of The MagPi can jump the queue at The Pi Hut to get priority handling on your
orders. The good news is, if youre already a print subscriber, you should be getting an email about it
right now. The better news is, if you subscribe to The MagPi before Sunday 13 March 2016 you too can
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get a code to jump the queue. Subscribe today, jump the queue and never miss another issue.
Find out more about the Raspberry Pi 3 on the Raspberry Pi website, including other places you can
try to buy it from.
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Krzysztof Sycha
10 days ago
Nice, but not revolutionary - I'm still waiting for the gigabit ethernet port. Maybe in Raspberry 3.1415926? ;)
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6 days ago
>>Raspberry 3.1415926
...bit confusing, surely that's RPi1
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6 days ago
True, I have been waiting for it too. But then I went with BananaPi. It got that. However, the CPU ain't this
good.
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8 days ago
I'm not, as it would probably not be able to fill the Gb Ethernet. If anything, USB 3 would have been nice, if
CPU chip supported it.
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2 days ago
Just a thought - if you think the Pi 3 can't fill a 1 Gbit Ethernet, how is it going to fill a 5 Gbit USB 3
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Me too
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10 days ago
Raspberry Pi^2
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10 days ago
Me too!
David Nelson
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4 days ago
Yup, they want performance you can't even touch under $200.
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Steve Hanson
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9 days ago
Very nice specs for the price. Now hopefully there will be more attention paid to 3d acceleration and possibly a po
android with 3d acceleration.
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Johannes Bergs
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Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API
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10 days ago
The 1GB Ram pack will be out later this year by mail order. Just don't move it around when it's plugged in
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Peter
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8 days ago
There are other options if you really want that. Like BananaPi.
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Christopher Fortin
10 days ago
more ram would be better than proc upgrades at this point, although the ram is a power suck, hopefully they go
through, with an eye to power managment in the next gen also, I think GBE is done and could be skipped.
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Aman Srivastava
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phoenix6142
19 hours ago
The memory has a much faster clock frequency. I just ordered one and I can't wait!
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Mayank Raj
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what is the power requirement of the Pi3 and also could can one suggest any alternate ways to power the same.
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Baxy
3 days ago
So, I understand that the FM radio receiver doesn't work? If I want to build a car PC I need to connect separately
FM radio receiver?
Falon
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5 days ago
Can't wait till they implement a NVidia GPU gddr5 chip for awesome graphics. ... ... ... its coming just wait.
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Christian Hilton
6 days ago
Just before I totally panic - I had a RPI2 that one night suddenly spat a MicroSD out and the spring in the socket h
gone which then prevented one being reinserted, but this was replaced under warranty and normal service has
resumed - I've just taken delivery of a new RPI3 though and there doesn't appear to be a spring mechanism, but
will the device boot - I'm using NOOBS which is the first I've come across stating it's RPI3-friendly and have to a
this is the same problem, or am I doing something else wrong. The simple fact is that the RPI2 goes straight into
setup with the NOOBS image, and while other preexisting [e.g. Berryboot] SDs that I use without issue on the RP
will not load on the RPI3 either, just the colour pallette loading screen - i.e. the [hardware] lights are on but there's
nobody home..., any pointers?
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6 days ago
Panic over, I reformatted & [ergo] reseated, one of which has sorted it :)
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7 days ago
You can't please every one, but in this Internet of Things trend, the lack of analog input is a glaring omission.
natural world talks analog! Computing power can be spread over anywhere in the digital cloud, let's get the Pi the
ability to read its own environment with analog input and a few sensors!
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3 days ago
I agree, an onboard ADC would be very nice. That would mean breaking compatibility with the old gpio pin
though
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8 days ago
I wouldn't mind if they made it a little bit bigger next time around, and gave it more i/o. It's pretty limited as it is righ
now.
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8 days ago
You could probably make a hack. Or put a dongel with a connection instead of the one on the Pi 3.
Bert Sierra
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9 days ago
Im guessing the form factor is the same between the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and new Raspberry Pi 3.
mean the cases are likely to be compatible. Can anyone with a Raspberry 2 and 3 confirm that the cases are
interchangeable??
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7 days ago
Good to know as I do occasionally pop the top of my RPi 2 case to check the microSD activity LE
particular. I just wanted to make sure the RPi 2 and RPi 3 cases were swappable, which it sounds
they are, and Im not averse to drilling a couple of new holes to make universal cases considerin
the LED change.
I spotted the Raspberry Pi 3 here in the US on CanaKit (now listing on Amazon, though with prices
about $10 to $15 what I would like to see) and MCM Electronics on Ohio. I scored a nice kit from
CanaKit which should be here Tuesday; Im so excited.
Jayro Jones
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9 days ago
Still waiting for USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet... Until then, I'm holding off. I want to build a small and cheap portab
Emulator MAME machine, but USB 2.0 read speeds are abysmal at best.
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8 days ago
Well, as that would mean another more expensive CPU chip to even handle USB 3 and Gigabit, I think it i
good choice. Especially because the RPi 3 probably wouldn't have the speed to handle Gb Ethernet, it wo
be a total waist and probably make the network slower because of that. But the WiFi is faster than 100 Mb
use that. Then there will be less load on the USB buss as the Ethernet will not use it.
If anything, a USB 3 would be usefull, not 1 Gb Ethernet. Or a buss to connect eMMC.
AB
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9 days ago
I was really looking forward to Gigabit LAN and 2GB RAM (at least). I would definitely go for a 4GB RAM option.
Guess i'll wait for the Rpi 4...
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Krtsi Pter
9 days ago
I'm still missing a SATA... :( But this improvement is better than nothing. :)
tulo
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9 days ago
Nice on 64-bit CPU, but why don't you make an higher spec-higher cost board? Something with USB3, 2-4 Gb R
5G WI-FI, SATA, eMMC?
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