Raspberry Pi 3 is 50% faster than Raspberry Pi 2, and 10 times faster than the orginal Raspberry Pi 1.
This video highlights the difference betwwen the Raspberry Pi 2 and the Raspberry Pi 3.
The main differences are performance and intergrated wireless
| Pi 3 | Pi 2 | |
| Processor | Broadcom BCM2387 chipset Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU 1.2GHz | Broadcom BCM2836 SoC Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU 900 MHz |
| GPU | Dual Core VideoCore IV Multimedia Co-Processor. | Dual Core VideoCore IV Multimedia Co-Processor |
| Integrated Wireless | 802.11 b/g/n Wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.1 (Bluetooth Classic and LE) | No |
| Memory | 1GB LPDDR2 | 1GB LPDDR2 |
| Ethernet | 10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket | 10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket |
| USB | 4 x USB 2.0 Connector | 4 x USB 2.0 Connector |
| GPIO | 40-pin providing 27 GPIO pins | 40-pin providing 27 GPIO pins |
The operating system boots from Micro SD card, running a version of the Linux operating system or Windows 10 IoT.
Note - Please ensure you use the latest version of NOOB's or Raspbian.
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