Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ review and demo, including processor speed and thermal performance tests compared to the previous Raspberry Pi 3.

If you like this video, you may enjoy some of my other single board computer reviews:

Tinker Board S:

Odroid-XU4:

Rock64:

LattePanda:

UDOO x86 Advanced Plus:

[PaulFeakins]

"It's not in an anti-static bag - that's a bit of a shock!" no pun intended? lol

[evanj]

Very nice vid Mr. Barnatt! I really enjoy each and every one of your vids. You are my favorite because you put humor in your vids which really makes my day. Thank you very much :)

[uroborous]

And with that, my dreams of entering narnia have been shattered... Guess i'm just going to have to occupy myself by tinkering around with the new pi3b+!

[MetallicBlade]

My birthday today + New EC video about the Pi = Pretty good start for the day.

[perrymcclusky]

Thanks for this particular review. Your review is ‘spot on’ and I agree with you. Although it isn’t the Raspberry Pi 4 I wish for, I must say it is a step in the right direction. I look forward to any other videos on this SBC. The odds are pretty high that I may add it to my Pi collection. Thank you.

[ricky_pigeon]

"it's not in a anti-stacking bag, that's abit of a shock" .. thanks for making me choke on a chip lol

[darrylmay]

Because of your reviews and a lack of technological progress with the Raspberry platform I just bought an ODROID-XU4. In your comparison review you contributed the performance differences with a less developed OS. The OS is much easier to modify and will develop rapidly due to the open source concept. I therefore bought the much more powerful ODROID-XU4. Thank you and keep the content flowing!

[techtruth]

I've been using my Pi 3 B+ since I got it the day after launch day and despite the small step up I'm really pleased with it. Add an USB SSD drive and change the boot from SD card to SSD and it's a very usable desktop computer for general purpose work.

[MrTbill]

USB 3 and Gigabit is not a deal-breaker for me; doubt it is for the vast majority of users. Kudos on the heat tests, thank you! A much bigger concern for the average user.

[jackeyniraula]

I was in the future and zapped right back here to tell you that you were reviewing Raspberry Pi 4 =)

[mhayward]

Thanks for the review, Chris, glad Stanley the Knife made an appearance :) The feature I'm hoping for in the Pi 4 is 2 Gb of DD3 memory instead of the 1 Gb of DDR2.

[andljoy]

Now we can de-lid our Pis and replace the TIM with liquid metal!

[freesaxon]

Thanks for the comparison, it's not one giant leap for raspberry kind, more shuffle in the right direction

[rubinmiddleton]

Delightful video Sir. I enjoyed it very much, and I am still smiling 10 minutes later:)

[AnttiNannimus]

Rpi 3 B+ brings us exceptionally superior quad 8-finger-crossing as well! I cannot do that yet.

[johnc]

As an engineer I receive leads, plugs, sockets and all sorts of passive components in anti-static bags. It's comforting if nothing else. It's a no brainer. I hate seeing the Raspberry Pi arrive naked in a box. That was a poor decision by someone..

[JosephMassimino]

Very good comments on the B+, let's hope they can adopt some of the higher performance of the Asus Tinker board before the Tinker board gets more traction in the hobby area, The Asus Tinker board did not workout so well with my attempt to get it to work with DireWolf as a TNC for APRS. However, I did turn it into a nice desktop PC for web, email, PCB design, and many other things that work around USB ports and Linux. One thing that the Tinker board excelled at that did work for me, was when I connect a SSD drive to it, and it just took off. I opened a mkv rip of a Blueray movie and the output to my 32" Samsung HDTV was blue ray quality, I was blown away by the great detail and sharpness of the image. It was the only thing I did that got the processor a bit hot to the touch. So I got a small 12v muffin fan and ran it with 5v, and stuck it on top. The small fan in the case I had would never keep that thing as cool as I would like it. The Tinker board audio control needs some work. I can get audio to my HDTV through HDMI, but not reliably to the self powered speaker connected to a 3.5mm jack on the Tinker board. I got the audio out of the 3.5mm jack once, and it was not so good, but then it stopped and I could not get it back again. The Tinker board needs more work, and their support is terrible. It's not that they are not responsive, and polite, it is that they are either idiots, or they don't understand English. It took me 5 or 6 return emails to get them to break down the 3.5mm jack to tell me what is one each ring. It was simple enough, but it is taking way to long for that, so I am afraid to ask them a really complicated question about GPIO control, which is required for DireWolf control of PTT on the radio it controls. I never got the audio to work, so I skipped going into anything more complicated.

[jjk-]

Very tempted to buy one but im sticking with the Pi3 until Pi4 comes out, I mainly use it as a Kodi machine so it does well enough right now.

[philos]

Ah something to watch on my lazy sunday! Thanks!

[mikecalderon]

Hello Mr Barnatt, I have the latest version of Raspbian running on my 3b+ with a fan and heat sink and while running YouTube at 1080HD it maintains 34C in a room with ambient temperature of 24C. I am thrilled with the performance and cannot wait to see the new hats coming for the board.