[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 3 already!

Marc Lijour marc at lijour.net
Wed Mar 2 18:21:07 UTC 2016


What about the GPU? Is it supporting OpenGL?

On 16-03-02 04:13 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> and just two months after I bought a Pi 2 from Microsoft Store.
>
> Here are some highlights, possibly inaccurately remembered.
>
> Better
> - Arm A53: significantly faster than the A7(?) in the Pi 2.  64-bit
>
> - built in bluetooth and WiFi.  These apparently go through SDIO,
>    bypassing the USB bottleneck.
>
> - faster clocking for the GPU (I think)
>
> Worse:
>
> - takes more power to run.  You might need a new power supply
>
> Same:
>
> - no price increase!
>
> - same case and peripherals as Pi 2 (but LEDs move)
>
> - all USB is 2.0 (no USB 3.x)
>
> - too much goes through a single internal USB 2.0 bus (ethernet,
>    4 usb ports)
>
> - although the processor is 64-bit, the software is still 32-bit.  I hope
>    that this will change.
>
> - 1G of RAM
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