Orange Pi 3 is released - a full-fledged mini-pc for $ 30 on Linux

A new version of the well-known clone Raspberry Pi has been released. The form factor is the same if you do not consider PCI-E.

From the new:

PCIE

• Supports RC mode
• Supports x1 Gen2 (5.0Gbps) lane
• Complies with PCI Express Base 2.0 Specification

WIFI + BT

AP6256, IEEE 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, BT5.0

Full specification:



CPU

H6 Quad-core 64-bit 1.8GHZ ARM Cortex-A53

GPU

• High-performance multi-core GPU Mali T720
• OpenGL ES3.1 / 3.0 / 2.0 / 1.1
• Microsoft DirectX 11 FL9_3
• ASTC (Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression)
• Floating point operation greater than 70 GFLOPS

Memory 4 options

• 1GB LPDDR3 (shared with GPU) + EMMC (Default Empty)
• 2GB LPDDR3 (shared with GPU) + EMMC (Default Empty)
• 1GB LPDDR3 (shared with GPU) + 8GB EMMC Flash
• 2GB LPDDR3 (shared with GPU) + 8GB EMMC Flash

WIFI + BT

AP6256, IEEE 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, BT5.0

LAN

10 / 100M / 1000M, ethernet RJ45

4 USB 3.0 Host + 1 * USB 2.0 Host, 1 * USB OTG 2.0 ports

In comparison with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B +

	Orange Pi 3	Raspberry Pi 3 Model B +
Price	min $ 30 or 40 $ 2 GB RAM + 8 eMMC	$ 40
Proc	H6 Quad-core 64-bit 1.8GHZ ARM Cortex ™ -A53	1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU (BCM2837)
Memory	1 or 2GB LPDDR3	1GB RAM (LPDDR2 SDRAM)
Disk	8GB EMMC Flash	not
WiFi	802.11 a / b / g / n / ac	802.11 b / g / n / ac
BT	BT5.0	4.2 HS low-energy (BLE) (CYW43455)
USB	4 * USB 3.0 2 * USB 2.0	4 * USB 2.0

+ PCI-E in which you can plug in a modem or ssd disk or ...

Of the distributions, they still promise Android7.0, Ubuntu, Debian, and m. Win10 ARM
On the Armbian website, there are no assemblies for this fee yet, but distributions should come up with the same percentage.

UPDATE:

Price on Aliexpress from
2000 rub with 1 GB of memory and without eMMC memory.
2300 rub with 2 GB of memory and without eMMC memory.
2300 rubles with 1 GB of memory and 8 GB of eMMC memory.
2700 rubles with 2 GB of memory and 8 GB of eMMC memory.
3000 rub with 2 GB of memory and 8 GB of eMMC memory + power

UPDATE 2: a list of distributions from the company