The Raspberry Pi Foundation today announced the Raspberry Pi Model B+, which provides faster CPU and higher wireless throughput than previous generations. Model B+ is actually the successor of Model B released two years ago. Although it is not called Raspberry Pi 4, it has a very significant improvement in performance.
The Raspberry Pi Model B+ uses a 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core Broadcom ARM Cortex A53 architecture processor, and a comparable Model B 1.2GHz processor. Although there is not much improvement in the clock frequency, the Foundation indicated a 15% improvement in performance.
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In addition, Model B+ supports dual-band wireless (2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 and Bluetooth Low Energy. The Foundation said that it will be able to release commercial products based on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ more conveniently and easily through dual-band wireless LAN certified by modular compliance.
The Raspberry Pi Model B+ provides four USB 2.0 ports on the port, a 40-pin GPIO header, a full-size HDMI port, monitor and camera ports, quad-stereo output, and composite video port.
The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+’s Gigabit network port provides throughput of up to 300 Mbps, and the motherboard supports 802.11ac WiFi standard, with a throughput that is three times the highest throughput of the Raspberry Pi Model B 2.4GHz 802.11n WiFi.
As previously expected by users, the Model B+ has not changed in size with the previous version, and the price has not changed, meaning that it is still $35/£30.
