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The Raspberry Pi 1, 2 and 3 compared

BY STE 8TH MARCH 2016

The Raspberry Pi 3 has now launched. The 3rd generation has many improvements over its
predecessor. Lets see how it compares to the older models.
Ste Wright
Raspberry Pi evolution I'm a PHP developer based in Manchester,
England. Music fan, mountain climber,
Originally, this site was hosted from a Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 1, and surprisingly it was very traveller, beer and red wine drinker.
capable. The only issue was the 256mb RAM which would quickly fill. To overcome this, I changed the
boot device to be a high-quality USB flash drive (find out how in this tutorial) where swap took over
once the memory was full.

The rev 2 of the Model B saw an increase to 512mb of RAM which made all the di"erence. The
Raspberry Pi 2 launched with a welcomed performance boost with a multicore processor and an
increase in memory to 1GB. Raspberry Pi has now launched with another boost in processing power,
and the addition of WiFi.

Tech specs dfferences between Raspberry Pi 1, 2 and

3
Above Ive summarised some of the di erences, below are the actual di erences between each of the
models.

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Pictured, le" to right: Raspberry Pi 3, 2 and 1

Pictured le to right: Raspberry Pi 1, 2 and 3

What next?
Over the next few weeks, Ill be benchmarking the models and adding a tutorial on how to create a
Ubuntu-based web server on Raspberry Pi 3.

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Ste
Web Developer living in Manchester, working for Studio Skylab (http://www.studioskylab.com).

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Michael Lush 8th March 2016 at 8:09 am

What do you mean the formfactor has not changed? Try fitting a Pi 1 into a Pi 2 case (and what no love for the B+?)
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Ste 9th March 2016 at 12:07 pm

Yea I need to revise this article, it was rushed!
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Distrace 13th February 2017 at 4:02 pm

Article is still the same btw
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