ASUS unveils the Tinker Board 3/3S development board, powered by the Rockchip RK3566 quad-core ARM processor

Recently, ASUS “again” released the Tinker Board 3 development board, which has a design scheme similar to that of a Raspberry Pi.

Tinker Board 3

Note: ASUS launched the Tinker Board 3 development board in March 2023. It is powered by the Rockchip RK3568 quad-core ARM processor and has a dual network port design.

The board was renamed the Tinker Board 3N after its launch, and the Tinker Board 3N Plus and 3N Lite were launched in February of this year.

The new Tinker Board 3

The new board released this time uses the Tinker Board 3 name and features a Raspberry Pi-like design.

The development board chip is upgraded from the Rockchip RK3568 of Tinker Board 3N to RK3566, and the relevant information is attached as follows:

• 4 Arm Cortex-A55 processor cores clocked at up to 2GHz
• An Arm Mali-G52 graphics processor
• A video processing unit with 4k60 H.264 / H.265 / VP9 decoding and 1080p60 H.264 / H.265 encoding
• An INT8 precision calculation of a neural processing unit with 0.8 TOPS.
• 2GB or 4GB LPDDR4x memory
• One quad-channel MIPI display serial interface (up to 1080p60)
• One full-size HDMI 2.0 port (supports up to 4k60 displays)
• One Gigabit Ethernet port
• One USB 3.0 host and two USB 2.0 hosts
• One USB 2.0 Micro-B On-The-Go port (operates in device mode only)
• An additional USB 2.0 port on a wafer connector
• Commonly used 40-pin universal input/output (GPIO) headers
• One M.2 E-Key slot (provides single PCI Express Gen 2 lane)

ASUS has also introduced the Tinker Board 3S board, which differs in the onboard 16GB eMMC enclosure and a standard microSD card slot.

Both boards contain analog audio inputs and outputs, are powered by a DC outlet, and support voltages up to 19V.

Link to Official Release