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BCM2835 boards and specs

Broadcom · 2012 · 6 boards

The Broadcom SoC of the first Raspberry Pi boards and the Pi Zero: a single ARMv6 core and a VideoCore IV GPU.

Chip specifications

From the datasheet
ArchitectureArm1176JZF-S (ARMv6)[1]
Cores1[1]
Clock700 MHz on Raspberry Pi 1; 1 GHz on Raspberry Pi Zero[1]
GPUVideoCore IV[1]

BCM2835 datasheet

Boards with the BCM2835

6 boards

Sources

2 sources
  1. BCM2835 ARM Peripherals, Broadcom (hosted by Raspberry Pi)
  2. Processors, Raspberry Pi documentation