Thundercomm RUBIK Pi 3
The RUBIK Pi 3 is Thundercomm’s QCS6490 board, launched at CES 2025. Thundercomm is a joint venture of ThunderSoft and Qualcomm. It has the same SoC as the Radxa Dragon Q6A and takes Raspberry Pi HATs. Canonical maintains an optimized Ubuntu image for it.
Hardware
Specs
| SoC | Qualcomm QCS6490 |
|---|---|
| Process | 6 nm |
| CPU | 1× Cortex-A78 @ 2.7 GHz 3× Cortex-A78 @ 2.4 GHz 4× Cortex-A55 @ 1.9 GHz |
| Memory | LPDDR5-6400 / LPDDR4X-4266 32-bit Dual-channel (2× 16-bit) non-PoP |
| GPU | Adreno 643 @ 812 MHz Vendor: OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 2.2, DirectX 12 Mesa: OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.3 (Freedreno, Turnip, drm/msm kernel) |
| NPU | 6th gen Qualcomm AI Engine, 12 TOPS Combined Hexagon DSP + Tensor Accelerator figure (from the Radxa Dragon Q6A) Compute Hexagon DSP with dual Hexagon Vector eXtensions (HVX) Hexagon Co-processor (Hexagon CP) 2.0 Hexagon Tensor Accelerator |
| VPU | Decode: 4K@60fps H.264, H.265, VP9 Encode: 4K@30fps H.264, H.265 |
| SoC page | QCS6490 / QCM6490 |
Interfaces
| Board | Thundercomm RUBIK Pi 3 |
|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X 8 GB |
| Camera | 2× 4-lane MIPI CSI D-PHY |
| Display | 1× HDMI (4K@30), 1× DisplayPort via USB-C (4K@60) |
| Storage | 128 GB UFS 2.2 |
| PCIe | 1× M.2 M-Key 2280: PCIe Gen 3 x2 (NVMe SSD) |
| USB | 1× USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C (DisplayPort Alt Mode (4K@60)) 2× USB 3.0 Type-A 1× USB 2.0 Type-A 1× USB 2.0 micro USB |
| Ethernet | 1× 1 GbE |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 |
| GPIO | 40-pin header (Raspberry Pi HAT compatible) |
| Audio | 3.5 mm headphone jack |
| Power | 12 V / 3 A via USB Type-C PD |
| RTC | Yes |
| Dimensions | 100 × 75 mm |