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RASPBERRY PI 3 IS OUT NOW!


SPECS, BENCHMARKS & MORE
Get the low down on the brand new Raspberry Pi 3 and see how its
new features compare to previous Raspberry Pis
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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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Quake III Arena timedemo

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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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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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Chad Wheatley > Krzysztof Sycha

9 days ago

Not while we're still piggybacking off a USB 2.0 channel :(


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Steven Nevermore > Krzysztof Sycha

10 days ago

I see what you did there


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Christian Hilton > Krzysztof Sycha

6 days ago

>>Raspberry 3.1415926
...bit confusing, surely that's RPi1
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SriVishnu Totakura > Krzysztof Sycha

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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Anders Jackson > Krzysztof Sycha

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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John Wallace > Anders Jackson

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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Siddhu Arevindh > Krzysztof Sycha

9 days ago

Me too waiting for gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0

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Danilo Dene > Krzysztof Sycha

9 days ago

Me too


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Tyler Collins > Krzysztof Sycha

10 days ago

Raspberry Pi^2

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Bo Thid > Krzysztof Sycha

10 days ago

Me too!


David Nelson

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10 days ago

Nice complaining. Lots of capability for the cost.


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Neil Lees > David Nelson

10 days ago

Unbelievable amounts of whinge for so much for so little, be happy coders.


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Wolfgang > David Nelson

4 days ago

Yup, they want performance you can't even touch under $200.
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prairienyx

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9 days ago

> its only unused feature is a disconnected FM radio receiver.


You know... that would have been a cool feature to keep! :-)
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Now you've got me thinking...


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

10 days ago

Woha! WiFi onboard is absolutely amazing. Thousand thanks for that!


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Semanur Glen

9 days ago

Wifi onboard <3


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Steve > Semanur Glen

8 days ago

Sadly on Wi-Fi N which is very limiting since AC is now the standard


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Anders Jackson > Steve

8 days ago

Sigh... Be happy of WiFi in the $35 price range...


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surja

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10 days ago

Was expecting 2 GB RAM, otherwise seems cool.


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Neil Lees > surja

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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10 days ago

No native SATA port again :(


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Anders Jackson > Peter

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

10 days ago

Wow :D ! This is going to be a game changer.


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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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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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Christian Hilton > Christian Hilton

6 days ago

Panic over, I reformatted & [ergo] reseated, one of which has sorted it :)


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Steve C. Yang, P.E.

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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chris wheeler > Steve C. Yang, P.E.

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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Nate Pinkston (MC Survivalist)

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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Anders Jackson > Nate Pinkston (MC Survivalist)

8 days ago

And I prefer it to keep the size, as it will not obsolete my cards.


Already done that once...
If you want expansion, there are things to connect and use these serial busses that exists.


johnno12345

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8 days ago

That's it! I'm getting a Chromecast 2 instead

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That was a relevant compare... ;-)

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johnno12345 > Anders Jackson

7 days ago

Anything unrelated to elephants is irrelephant.


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David md

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8 days ago

Any chance to connect an external Wi-Fi antenna ?

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Anders Jackson > David md

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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Anders Jackson > Bert Sierra

8 days ago

It is, except the LEDs for power etc has moved.


With the usual exception that some few cases has some non standard ways of connecting directly to the
card...


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Bert Sierra > Anders Jackson

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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Anders Jackson > Jayro Jones

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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