G'day, Graham here from Core Electronics. Raspberry Pi Foundation have just dropped the mic on a brand new board. It's called the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. That plus at the end means it's a major revision to the Model B board. So let's do a quick unboxing and check out what this board is all about.

So here's a boxed Pi 3 Plus and open it from the side and then here is the new piece of hardware. So let's do a quick orientation of this board to see what the differences are. In fact, I'll grab a Pi 3, the previous model, and we'll put them side by side.

So let's look at the big visual changes between the two boards. On the Pi 3 B+, we've got a new BCM chip. Now it's very similar to the existing BCM chip but it also includes some better thermal management and it's a little bit faster. It's about 16.6% faster than its predecessor. Over here we've got some new wireless hardware so we can see that the chip antenna that used to be on the Pi 3 is now gone and we've got this PCB antenna instead. Much of the rest of the board is quite similar between the two of them but let's put the Pi 3 aside and for those people that are new to Raspberry Pi, I'll just do a quick walk around to show you all the peripherals.

So starting down here we have the power connector. Again, it's 2.5 amps, 5.1 volts recommended. We have the HDMI connector, we have the CSI connector, here we have the 3.5mm 4-pin audio and composite video jack. Ethernet, it is faster Ethernet, 300 megabit. We have USB 2 still. The standard 40-pin GPIO header. Over here we have the display connector. The bottom of the Raspberry Pi 3 B+, is much the same but for those who are new to it, FYI, that's the microSD card slot for your operating system and file storage and over here we have the RAM.

So here's the product guide from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. I'll include a link to this in the description. It's got some wonderful photos of the new board. More importantly, it's got all the features. So in this first paragraph it really does wrap it up in a nutshell. The core processor is running at 1.4 gigahertz so that's a 200 meg increase. It's dual band wireless 2.4 gig and 5 gig which includes wireless AC as well. On top of that it's fast Ethernet and has PoE compatibility via a PoE hat. Now it's important to note that connector there will be provisioned for use with the PoE hat. It's worth noting as well that the wireless module does come with a modular compliance certification which is a pretty big deal. Like if you're building a product around Raspberry Pi, having that compliance testing reduced to a minimal fashion is a bit of a game changer when it comes to building a commercial product.

So on page three we have the specifications. I won't read through all of them because the first paragraph does sum up the really juicy stuff for this new board. Press pause now on the video if you'd like to look at this in more detail or check out the link below and then come on back.

On page four of the document we have the physical specifications. Now it is the Model B board so it includes all the standard layout that you would expect for the Model B. This board will fit in existing Pi 3 cases. In fact the only thing to really be concerned about is this Broadcom chip which is a little bit taller and if for some reason in the unlikely chance that you've designed something in this area over here in your case that the new wireless hardware might interfere with.

So there you have it, some of the new features of the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus. This board is so new that we're still getting hands-on with it. Expect some more guides to come out shortly and if you have any questions leave them below. We'll be checking them out, answering them and if you want to see more information about this board follow the links in the description and all the best with your projects.