Developed by Fyde Innovations in collaboration with Radxa and Realtek, the XpressReal T3 is a Raspberry Pi Zero-like SBC built around the Realtek RTD1619B Arm Cortex-A55 SoC. It runs FydeOS/openFyde out of the box, and also supports Linux and Android, making it suitable for enterprise kiosks, digital signage, and multimedia applications.
The board features 4GB LPDDR4 RAM, 32GB eMMC flash, a microSD card, and an M.2 socket for NVMe for storage. Other features include HDMI 2.1a, MIPI DSI, USB 3.2 Type-C, USB 2.0 Type-A, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, a mPCIe slot, and a 40-pin Raspberry Pi-style GPIO header.
XpressReal T3 specifications:
- SoC – Realtek RTD1619B
- CPU – Quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 @ up to 1.7GHz
- GPU – Arm Mali-G57 MP1 with Vulkan 1.1, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0
- NPU – 1.6 TOPS, supports INT4/INT8/INT16, FP16/BF16, TF32
- System Memory – 4GB LPDDR4 @ 3200Mbps
- Storage
- 4MB SPI flash for boot
- 32GB eMMC flash
- MicroSD card slot
- M.2 NVMe SSD slot (see Expansion section)
- Video Output
- HDMI 2.1a up to 4K @ 60Hz, with HDMI CEC, ARC/eARC, HDCP
- MIPI DSI connector
- Networking
- Low-profile Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port with Passive PoE (24V 1A) support
- WiFi 6 + Bluetooth 5.4
- USB
- USB Type-C 3.2 Gen1 port
- USB Type-A 2.0 port
- USB Type-C port for power
- Expansion
- M.2 M-Key, 2280, PCIe Gen2 x1 socket
- Mini PCIe slot for AP or 4G LTE module (NanoSIM socket on the back)
- 40-pin GPIO header compatible with Raspberry Pi’s GPIO header
- Misc – Power button
- Power Supply
- USB-C PD port
- GbE LAN with Passive PoE (24V/1A)
- Dimensions – 96 x 40 mm; note: it’s quite bigger than the Raspberry Pi Zero (65x30mm)
As mentioned earlier, this SBC supports multiple operating systems, including openFyde (an open-source Chromium OS variant from Fyde Innovations), various Linux distributions built with the Yocto Project, and Android (AOSP). Guides to installing, switching, and recovering OS are available on the company’s Wiki page. The wiki page also provides full build instructions to compile openFyde from source or create custom Linux images with Yocto. There are also SDK resources for application and system-level development.
The SBC is very unique and comes with a ton of features in a compact form factor, thanks to the Realtek RTD1619B, which we have previously seen in the TerraMaster F2-212 NAS. We have written about various other single board computers with similar features, including the Radxa Zero 3E SBC, the Sipeed Longan Pi3H, the Geniatech XPI-3566-ZERO, and many others, but those are not as feature-rich as the XpressReal T3.
The XpressReal T3 SBC can be purchased from the Made for FydeOS store for £44.44 (around $60). Some additional information is available on the XpressReal website.
Via Hackster.io
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Very cool board.
Interesting to see if it will have cases and whether it require active cooling.
I doubt it will require active cooling, it runs at about half the performance (despite the higher clock rate) of the BCM2835 in the original Raspberry Pi Zero which doesn’t require cooling. Also the available LTE module is designed to sit directly on top of the SoC, so there really isn’t room for any cooling, even a heatsink.
> it runs at about half the performance (despite the higher clock rate) of the BCM2835
Any source, numbers, scores for this nonsense?
Had a quick glance of the specs for this and Radxa Zero3w that uses RK3566, quad-core 1.6ghz with Lithography of 22nm vs XpressReal T3 with Realtek RTD1619B, quad-core 1.7ghz and 12nm. Both A55.
Radxa Zero3w can run without active cooling quite happily so I think Realtek RTD1619B will have no problem as their PCB design / form factor looks vaguely similar and with 12 nm it’s definitely going to dissipate less heat. They also clock it at 1.7ghz vs 2ghz on specs.
Perhaps with a hot m2 and PCIe peripherals running, it will be throttled, but the educated guess is unlikely.
BCM2835 is A11 and probably 5-8 years older than RTB1619B so above post is wrong I reckon.
Just wonder if this runs openwrt or relevant branches, seems to be a excellent portable 4G-hotspot solution
On paper possible: they provide yocto based on scarthgap https://wiki.xpressreal.io/guides/building-yocto/#fetch-yocto
Which is kernel 6.6 and openwrt 24.10 is also on kernel 6.6 so it already eliminated a lot of headache