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ROCK 3A is a Raspberry Pi-sized Computer with Wi-Fi 6 Support

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By androidpimp on July 22, 2021 Embedded Computers
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Table of Contents
  1. ROCK 3A
  2. ROCK 3A | Board Layout
  3. Powered with a Brand New RK3568 CPU
  4. WIFI 6 Support
  5. Interfaces
  6. Specification
  7. Price & Availability
  8. Where to Buy

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ROCK 3A

Radxa team has just announced their latest SBC named ROCK 3 powered with a brand Rockchip RK3568 chip. The new hardware also includes a few improvements, such as DDR4 memory and QC/PD power support. In Comparison to the previous Rockchip RK3399, its new CPU can reach up to 2GHZ, plus the GPU is faster than the ARM Mali-T860 MP4, capable of reaching up to a respectful higher frequency of 800-950 MHz.

ROCK 3A is simply an improved version of ROCK Pi 4 with some performance enhancements as well as additional new interfaces.


ROCK 3A | Board Layout

Front-View

Rock 3a Sbc Front

Rear-View

Rock 3a Sbc Rear

Powered with a Brand New RK3568 CPU

Rockchip Rk3568
Rockchip Rk3399

WIFI 6 Support

Radaxa team added an additional M.2 slot with PCIe to ROCK 3A board, so you can basically attach one NVMe SSD and another M.2 module such as a WIFI 6 M.2 card.


Interfaces

The ROCK 3A features an M key socket that supports two PCIe 3.0 lanes for NVMe SSDs and an E key with a single PCIe 2.0 lane. You also have all the typical I/O interfaces you expect from a standard SBC, which include an HDMI port, four USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet, and a compatible Raspberry Pi 40-pin GPIO header.


Specification

  • SoC – RK3568
  • CPU – Quad A55 up to 2GHz
  • GPU – Mali G52 GPU, 0.8T NPU
  • OS: Android 11.0 , Debian 10 / Ubuntu / Slackware
  • Pluggable eMMC module, 2/4/8GB LPDDR4 3200MT/s, dram controller frequency up to 1560MHz
  • QC/PD power support, with a new generation QC/PD protocol IC
  • Two USB2 same as ROCK Pi 4, two USB3(1x OTG+1x HOST), the two USB3 can be configured in SATA mode with a SATA breakout cable
  • GbE with PoE support
  • M.2 M key for NVMe with PCIe 3.0 x2 lanes
  • M.2 E key for connectivity with PCIe 2.0 x1/SDIO/UART, support Wi-Fi 6 cards
  • 1x MIPI DSI, 1x MIPI CSI, compatible with ROCK Pi 4
  • 40P GPIO header, mostly compatible with ROCK Pi 4

Price & Availability

The ROCK 3A is expected to be officially sold by the end of 2021, from US$35 for 2 GB of RAM. As for the highest level configurations. The 4 GB of RAM variant will retail for US$55, and the 8 GB of RAM will sell for US$75.

ROCK 3A is expected to run the latest Android 11.0 as well as Debian 10 / Ubuntu, maintained by the Toybrick team. Other community distributions will probably be also supported too.

Final prices based on different configurations:

ConfigurationRAMPrice
12GB RAM35USD
24GB RAM55USD
38GB RAM75USD

Where to Buy

ROCK 3A

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Not rated! (Currently under production).

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  1. John on February 5, 2022 6:28 am

    Yet another Rpi competitor that looks so good on paper. Yet 7 months later we still have hacked OS’s that only partially work. I am not criticizing the many volunteers that work on these projects, but I am criticizing the companies who offer glorious (potentially) hardware, that needs others working for little to nothing to hack together a workable set of instructions to try to get the board to live up to its potential. I have one of these boards, and some of the connectors are shoddy and fragile to say the least. To verify that all the hardware functions as it should is impossable unless your knowledge level is that of a software engineer, or you wish to wait for a bonified offering from a OS supplier like Manjaro or Ubuntu to write a distro for this board. Would I buy one again, in a word no.

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