FriendlyELEC NanoPi NEO3 Plus is a very compact headless SBC featuring a Rockchip RK3528A SoC with 1GB RAM, including main interfaces like a Gigabit Ethernet port, a USB 3.2 port, and a 26-pin GPIO header.
I recall using its predecessor, the NanoPi NEO3, which is based on a Rockchip RK3328, which I reviewed with Armbian in 2020. The updated model shares similarities, with a quad-core Cortex-A53 SoC clocked at 2.0 GHz, and it is offered in a black metal case instead of white plastic. The OS can still be booted from a microSD card, but NanoPi NEO3 Plus includes a socket for an optional eMMC flash module, an RTC battery connector, a speaker connector, and a MASK button for firmware updates.
Specifications of NanoPi NEO3 Plus:
- SoC – Rockchip RK3528A
- CPU – Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 @ 2.0 GHz
- GPU – Arm Mali-450 GPU, supporting OpenGL ES1.1, ES2.0, and OpenVG 1.1 APIs
- VPU – 4K H265/H264 60fps decoding
- System Memory – 1GB LPDDR4
- Storage
- MicroSD Card slot
- Support for eMMC module
- Video Output – N/A
- Audio – 4-pin 1.27/1.25mm connector for stereo speakers
- Networking – Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port
- USB
- 1x USB 3.0 Host Type-A port
- 1x USB 2.0 Host Type-C port
- Expansion – 26-pin GPIO header with I2C, UART, SPI, I2S, GPIO, etc.
- Debugging – Debug UART, 3.3V level, 1,500,000bps