New Raspberry Pi 3+ Launches With Dual Band Wireless For $35

The official Raspberry Pi Foundation has today announced a new addition to the ever-growing range of Raspberry Pi mini PC systems with the launch of the new more powerful Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ equipped with dual-band wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2/BLE, faster Ethernet, and Power-over-Ethernet support via a separate PoE HAT.

Specifications for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ include a Broadcom BCM2837B0, Cortex-A53 (ARMv8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.4GHz processor supported by 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM, together with Extended 40-pin GPIO header and powerful dual band 2.4GHz and 5GHz IEEE 802.11.b/g/n/ac wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2, BLE support.

Other features include improved thermal management and PXE network and USB mass-storage booting together with a 200MHz increase in peak CPU clock frequency, as well as roughly three times the wired and wireless network throughput when compared to the previous Raspberry Pi 3 mini PC. Check out the videos below to learn more about the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ mini PC which is now available to purchase directly from Raspberry Pi resellers worldwide.

“Dual-band wireless LAN and Bluetooth are provided by the Cypress CYW43455 “combo” chip, connected to a Proant PCB antenna similar to the one used on Raspberry Pi Zero W. Compared to its predecessor, Raspberry Pi 3B+ delivers somewhat better performance in the 2.4GHz band, and far better performance in the 5GHz band, as demonstrated by these iperf results from LibreELEC developer Milhouse.”