Updated with official info!
It's the fourth birthday of the start of sales of the first Raspberry Pi model. What better way to celebrate this than to release Raspberry Pi 3?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale/
The main improvements from the Pi 2 appear to be built in WiFi and Bluetooth, as well as a new SoC. The old one was based around a quadcore A7 cluster running at 900 MHz. The Pi 3 has a quadcore 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 (which is a 64-bit capable CPU). With the increased frequency and the faster CPU core, that should translate into 50-60% increased single thread performance, according to the link above. I would actually have guessed the difference to be even larger, but I guess it depends on the workload.
What are your feelings? Will you get one? I will, but I'm waiting for some more shops to get it so that prices stabilize.
EDIT: Adding a few articles with performance tests:
https://www.element14.com/community...ensive-raspberry-pi-comparison-benchmark-ever
http://blog.pimoroni.com/raspberry-pi-3/
It's the fourth birthday of the start of sales of the first Raspberry Pi model. What better way to celebrate this than to release Raspberry Pi 3?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale/
The main improvements from the Pi 2 appear to be built in WiFi and Bluetooth, as well as a new SoC. The old one was based around a quadcore A7 cluster running at 900 MHz. The Pi 3 has a quadcore 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 (which is a 64-bit capable CPU). With the increased frequency and the faster CPU core, that should translate into 50-60% increased single thread performance, according to the link above. I would actually have guessed the difference to be even larger, but I guess it depends on the workload.
What are your feelings? Will you get one? I will, but I'm waiting for some more shops to get it so that prices stabilize.
EDIT: Adding a few articles with performance tests:
https://www.element14.com/community...ensive-raspberry-pi-comparison-benchmark-ever
http://blog.pimoroni.com/raspberry-pi-3/
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