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title: "Single Board Computer, VIM3 With 5.0 Tops.Switchable PCIe and USB 3.0,"
brand: "khadas"
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# 5.0 TOPS NPU AI power 2T2R AC Wi-Fi + BT 5.0 USB-C PD & Gigabit Ethernet Single Board Computer, VIM3 With 5.0 Tops.Switchable PCIe and USB 3.0,

**Brand:** khadas
**Price:** € 349.97
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Power your projects with the Khadas VIM3 — where performance meets endless possibilities!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Single Board Computer, VIM3 With 5.0 Tops.Switchable PCIe and USB 3.0, by khadas
- **How much does it cost?** € 349.97 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Best For

- khadas enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted khadas brand quality
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## Key Features

- • **Expand & Customize:** Stackable design, 40-pin GPIO, M.2 PCIe slot, and programmable LEDs for ultimate hardware hacking.
- • **Powerful & Efficient:** 6-core Amlogic A311D SoC with 12nm tech delivers desktop-grade performance with low heat output.
- • **Versatile OS Support:** Run Android, Ubuntu, LibreELEC, or Khadas OOWOW out of the box — flexibility that fits your workflow.
- • **AI at Your Fingertips:** Harness blazing 5.0 TOPS NPU for next-gen machine learning and edge AI projects.
- • **Seamless Connectivity:** Dual-band 2T2R AC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0 keep you effortlessly connected in any workspace.

## Overview

The Khadas VIM3 4+32GB is a premium single board computer powered by the Amlogic A311D 6-core SoC, featuring a 5.0 TOPS NPU for AI acceleration, dual-band AC Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, USB 3.0, and Gigabit Ethernet with Wake-on-LAN. It supports multiple OS options including Android, Ubuntu, and LibreELEC, and offers extensive I/O with a 40-pin GPIO header, MIPI interfaces, and an M.2 PCIe slot for expansion. Designed for professionals and makers, it balances high performance with energy efficiency and a stackable, hackable form factor.

## Description

desertcart.com: Khadas VIM3 4+32GB Amlogic A311D Single Board Computer with 5.0 Tops NPU Mini PC Desktop Run Khadas OOWOW/Android/LibreELEC/Ubuntu : Electronics

Review: Powerful SBC with features worthy of the premium price - This is a very powerful and energy-efficient SBC, with features that well justify the premium price. I'm using this for an SDR project. It's perfectly capable of running gqrx and moderately complex GNURadio flows, and with a little tweaking can handle SDRTrunk P25 decoding, using an RTLSDR or even a hackrf at 10 Msps. It's typically compared to Raspberry Pi 4 and some of the ODROID boards, but this one sort of defines its own class. It's perhaps less "user-friendly" than the RPi, but as with most things in this world, if you want to live on the bleeding edge, you have to work for it. The board is based on the Amlogic A311D, an ARM64 SOC intended for TV boxes. Its architecture features four high-performance cores and two power-efficient cores. This arrangement is perhaps better than the more common arrangement of many little cores and few big ones (or equal numbers), as it lets you have your device always active handling background tasks with minimal power drain, and summon massive power on demand. There's also a suspend-to-RAM mode that drops power consumption to near zero, with several wakeup options available. Out of the box, you can power it up and it'll boot a perfectly usable version of Android from eMMC. Or you can put a Linux image on an SD card and boot that, then install it to the eMMC, or not. They've engineered this to be fairly difficult to hard-brick, it has a ROM loader that can be summoned by pushing buttons at power-on, and Khadas provides a "rescue" SD image that can fix the bootloader, backup/restore/erase/upgrade the eMMC, etc. On the Linux side, it can be a little rough around the edges, but there's a very active team of open source developers supporting it, and it's possible to run latest or nearly-latest Linux kernels on it. Khadas has active forums on their site where you can get support from the devs and other users. Best features: Low (!) power draw: With the ondemand CPU governor, and without making any special efforts like disabling cores, this thing idles around 2.2W, connected to 5GHz WiFi and Bluetooth, and sitting at the GNOME desktop. Power usage can be dropped even lower by tweaking CPU governor settings, disabling cores, disabling WiFi/BT, putting the HDMI to sleep, etc. I've seen it idle down around 1.3W, but with most of the goodies turned off. On the other end of the spectrum, it can surge over 10W under heavy load, and deliver the sort of performance you'd expect from an ARM at that wattage. Onboard power regulator: You provide a fairly clean source of 5-20VDC, it takes care of itself. If you're on the lower end of that range, you have to allow for brief spikes of high current, which is why they recommend a 4A adapter. You can use a USB-C Power Delivery adapter, the VIM3 will request what it wants, or you can provide suitable voltage through the USB port or through the header behind it. If powering externally from more than 5V, do NOT plug your computer or anything else you want to keep into the USB-C port, the power rails are common. The two USB-A ports provide regulated 5V regardless of supply voltage, and with a little poking around in the kernel device trees, you can even turn the power to them on and off under software control. Power & reset buttons, and a Function button that's used at bootup to enter recovery mode, and also can be read in software. There's an onboard IR receiver too, for use with Khadas's remote, or other ones with a bit of hacking. USB in abundance: The two Type-A connectors are standard USB. One is USB2, the other is USB3 (unless you enable the PCIe port, then it falls back to USB2). The Type-C carries a USB2 OTG port, and there are two others available with a little work: one hiding on the PCIe/M2 connector (?) and one on the GPIO connector. That PCIe/M2 port: You can turn that on instead of USB3, and use a pretty good variety of one-lane M2 PCIe cards or SSDs (not SATA ones though!). Support for most of the basic functionality is in the mainline Linux kernel, and the open-source dev team provide a bunch of patches to add more. The vendor provided kernel-4.9 based Ubuntu image is a bit long in the tooth, but does work fairly well and has support for all the bells and whistles. And... Full schematics and IC datasheets on Khadas web site. If you want to know how something works, how you can hack it to do something else, or what its voltage limits are, it's there. And the website and forums are full of useful info on how to use most of the board's features. Some caveats: You need a heatsink. The Khadas passive one is fine for light load and engineered to fit nicely without bulking up a very slim board. If you're going to run sustained heavy load you need more, or you'll hit thermal throttling and core shutdowns. Khadas has a heatsink-with-fan option, or you can roll your own, and there's a PCB header for a PWM variable fan. The white "heartbeat" LED speeds up as temps rise, a nice touch. Clean power is a must, especially if you're using 5V since there's very little headroom for the regulators to work with. The RMS current is quite low, but it can surge over 10W under load. If your VIM3 appears to be booting but has no video, check your power first, the HDMI really doesn't like power sags. Some of the I/O pins are 3.3V and some are 1.8V, and the docs aren't super clear on which. The schematic appears to be the ultimate authority on this matter. The forums are helpful too. Some of the advanced stuff (notably the NPU) doesn't work well (or at all) with the closer-to-mainline Linux kernels, you need to use the vendor-provided 4.9 kernel or do a lot of hacking to get it going. I didn't try out the NPU, since I don't need it for my project. The vendor 4.9 kernel didn't support my (third party) touchscreen for some weird reason, but the newer 5.12 does, so I didn't put a lot of effort into figuring out why. Overall, I'm duly impressed with this board, will probably buy another to experiment with after I finish my project (I kind of want to see that NPU do something), and will be keeping an eye out for new products from Khadas.
Review: Very good quality, worked right out of the box. - I bought the Vim3 because of its flop speed, wanted to use it for thermal imaging, but so using Android it won’t completely interface. But the board itself worked great right out of the box and passed all other tests. Just need to write code for the interface to app configuration.

## Features

- High Performance: Amlogic A311D - x4 2.2Ghz Cortex A73, x2 1.8Ghz Cortex A53 12nm SoC fabrication process for low heat 2T2R AC Wi-Fi with RSDB Features Bluetooth 5.0 USB 3.0 Available Gigabit Ethernet with WOL support LPDDR4/X USB-C PD for heavy applications
- Neural Network Accelerator: NPU: Supports a maximum frequency of 800MHz at 5.0 TOPS INT8 inference up to 1536 MAC Internal L2 cache (512KB) and system workspace buffer (1MB) Supports all major deep learning frameworks including TensorFlow and Caffe
- Maker Friendly: Stackable Design Programmable MCU 3 Programmable LEDs (Blue, Red and White) XPWR for external Power button Onboard SPI Flash Khadas TST Khadas KBI
- Business Applications Dual independent displays with GSensor H.264 / H.265 Encoding Supports multi-video decoding up to 4Kx2K@60fps+1x1080P@60fps VIN Power Input
- Rich IO: 40 Pin GPIO Header (USB, I2C, I2S, UART, ADC etc) 8-ch I2S for Microphone Array application (over M.2 Connector) MIPI-DSI MIPI-CSI Designed with GPIO Extender Chip

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B07WCS4Z6V |
| Best Sellers Rank | #2,350 in Single Board Computers (Computers & Accessories) |
| Brand | Khadas |
| Built-In Media | WiFi Antenna*2 |
| CPU Model | Cortex |
| CPU Speed | 2.2 GHz |
| Compatible Devices | Devices with HDMI, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or Gigabit Ethernet connectivity |
| Connectivity Technology | HDMI |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 64 Reviews |
| Manufacturer | Shenzhen Wesion Technology Co., Ltd. |
| Memory Storage Capacity | 32 GB |
| Model Name | VIM3 Pro |
| Operating System | Android/LibreELEC/Ubuntu |
| Processor Brand | Amlogic |
| Processor Count | 6 |
| Processor Speed | 2.2 GHz |
| RAM Memory Installed | 4 GB |
| RAM Memory Technology | LPDDR4 |
| Ram Memory Installed Size | 4 GB |
| Total Usb Ports | 5 |
| UPC | 724873165276 |
| Warranty Description | 1 |
| Wireless Compability | 802.11a/g/n/ac |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Khadas
- **CPU Model:** Cortex
- **Memory Storage Capacity:** 32 GB
- **Model Name:** VIM3 Pro
- **Ram Memory Installed Size:** 4 GB

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Does it support dp alt mode thru type-c?**
A: Both the VIM3/3L and Edge/-V support USB-C PD(Power Delivery) protocol, but only Edge/-V support DisplayPort and VIM3/3L not.

**Q: Windows 10 compatible?**
A: Hello Austin

VIM3 is an ARM architecture CPU, currently supported systems are Android/Ubuntu/CoreELEC, etc., can not directly run the windows system.

**Q: can i connect 4g lte module at m.2 slot withlout M2X extension board?**
A: Nope.

Actually the standard 4G LTE M.2 module is B-Key but the M.2 connector on VIM3/3L is M-Key one.

As the M.2 connector on the VIM3/3L designed with both PCIe and USB signals, and the M2X Extension board just devide the signals into two parts:

PCIe Signal: for SSD
USB Signal: for 4G LTE
Tips: As the Edge-V SBC not built-in the USB signals which is required for 4G LTE module, so only the SSD feature is available when connected to the M2X Extension Board.

**Q: What version hdmi does this have? does it support 4k60 with hdr?**
A: Thwe web site says:

Displays & User Input
These items are useful when you need to connect your VIM3 SBC to an external display + keyBoard mouse + remote control, for use as a desktop computer or media center.

4K HDMI 2.0 Cable
HDMI-Compatible 1080P/4K Monitor
Wireless USB KeyBoard + Mouse
CEC-Compatible Remote Control
Note: Please do not attach multiple cables with large heads that interfere with each other, as that may bend or twist the connectors, and this will cause intermittent connectivity issues after some time.

Also

Amlogic Video Engine (AVE-10) offloads the Cortex-A53 CPUs from all video CODEC processing. It
includes dedicated hardware video decoder and encoder. AVE-10 is capable of decoding 4Kx2K resolution
video at 75fps with complete Trusted Video Path (TVP) for secure applications and supports full formats
including MVC, MPEG-1/2/4, VC-1/WMV, AVS, AVS+, AVS2 RealVideo, MJPEG streams, H.264, H265-
10, VP9 and also JPEG pictures with no size limitation. The independent encoder is able to encode in
JPEG or H.265/H.264 up to 1080p at 60fps.
A311D integrates all standard audio/video input/output interfaces including a HDMI2.1 transmitter with 3D,
Dynamic HDR, CEC and HDCP 2.2 support, stereo audio DAC, a CVBS output, 4-lane MIPI DSI interface,
multiple TDM, PCM, I2S and SPDIF digital audio input/output interfaces, and 8 channel far-field PDM
digital microphone (DMIC) inputs. A 4-lane MIPI-CSI and DVP interface is available to support up to 8MP
camera input with the built-in high-quality ISP.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Powerful SBC with features worthy of the premium price
*by V***D on June 23, 2021*

This is a very powerful and energy-efficient SBC, with features that well justify the premium price. I'm using this for an SDR project. It's perfectly capable of running gqrx and moderately complex GNURadio flows, and with a little tweaking can handle SDRTrunk P25 decoding, using an RTLSDR or even a hackrf at 10 Msps. It's typically compared to Raspberry Pi 4 and some of the ODROID boards, but this one sort of defines its own class. It's perhaps less "user-friendly" than the RPi, but as with most things in this world, if you want to live on the bleeding edge, you have to work for it. The board is based on the Amlogic A311D, an ARM64 SOC intended for TV boxes. Its architecture features four high-performance cores and two power-efficient cores. This arrangement is perhaps better than the more common arrangement of many little cores and few big ones (or equal numbers), as it lets you have your device always active handling background tasks with minimal power drain, and summon massive power on demand. There's also a suspend-to-RAM mode that drops power consumption to near zero, with several wakeup options available. Out of the box, you can power it up and it'll boot a perfectly usable version of Android from eMMC. Or you can put a Linux image on an SD card and boot that, then install it to the eMMC, or not. They've engineered this to be fairly difficult to hard-brick, it has a ROM loader that can be summoned by pushing buttons at power-on, and Khadas provides a "rescue" SD image that can fix the bootloader, backup/restore/erase/upgrade the eMMC, etc. On the Linux side, it can be a little rough around the edges, but there's a very active team of open source developers supporting it, and it's possible to run latest or nearly-latest Linux kernels on it. Khadas has active forums on their site where you can get support from the devs and other users. Best features: Low (!) power draw: With the ondemand CPU governor, and without making any special efforts like disabling cores, this thing idles around 2.2W, connected to 5GHz WiFi and Bluetooth, and sitting at the GNOME desktop. Power usage can be dropped even lower by tweaking CPU governor settings, disabling cores, disabling WiFi/BT, putting the HDMI to sleep, etc. I've seen it idle down around 1.3W, but with most of the goodies turned off. On the other end of the spectrum, it can surge over 10W under heavy load, and deliver the sort of performance you'd expect from an ARM at that wattage. Onboard power regulator: You provide a fairly clean source of 5-20VDC, it takes care of itself. If you're on the lower end of that range, you have to allow for brief spikes of high current, which is why they recommend a 4A adapter. You can use a USB-C Power Delivery adapter, the VIM3 will request what it wants, or you can provide suitable voltage through the USB port or through the header behind it. If powering externally from more than 5V, do NOT plug your computer or anything else you want to keep into the USB-C port, the power rails are common. The two USB-A ports provide regulated 5V regardless of supply voltage, and with a little poking around in the kernel device trees, you can even turn the power to them on and off under software control. Power & reset buttons, and a Function button that's used at bootup to enter recovery mode, and also can be read in software. There's an onboard IR receiver too, for use with Khadas's remote, or other ones with a bit of hacking. USB in abundance: The two Type-A connectors are standard USB. One is USB2, the other is USB3 (unless you enable the PCIe port, then it falls back to USB2). The Type-C carries a USB2 OTG port, and there are two others available with a little work: one hiding on the PCIe/M2 connector (?) and one on the GPIO connector. That PCIe/M2 port: You can turn that on instead of USB3, and use a pretty good variety of one-lane M2 PCIe cards or SSDs (not SATA ones though!). Support for most of the basic functionality is in the mainline Linux kernel, and the open-source dev team provide a bunch of patches to add more. The vendor provided kernel-4.9 based Ubuntu image is a bit long in the tooth, but does work fairly well and has support for all the bells and whistles. And... Full schematics and IC datasheets on Khadas web site. If you want to know how something works, how you can hack it to do something else, or what its voltage limits are, it's there. And the website and forums are full of useful info on how to use most of the board's features. Some caveats: You need a heatsink. The Khadas passive one is fine for light load and engineered to fit nicely without bulking up a very slim board. If you're going to run sustained heavy load you need more, or you'll hit thermal throttling and core shutdowns. Khadas has a heatsink-with-fan option, or you can roll your own, and there's a PCB header for a PWM variable fan. The white "heartbeat" LED speeds up as temps rise, a nice touch. Clean power is a must, especially if you're using 5V since there's very little headroom for the regulators to work with. The RMS current is quite low, but it can surge over 10W under load. If your VIM3 appears to be booting but has no video, check your power first, the HDMI really doesn't like power sags. Some of the I/O pins are 3.3V and some are 1.8V, and the docs aren't super clear on which. The schematic appears to be the ultimate authority on this matter. The forums are helpful too. Some of the advanced stuff (notably the NPU) doesn't work well (or at all) with the closer-to-mainline Linux kernels, you need to use the vendor-provided 4.9 kernel or do a lot of hacking to get it going. I didn't try out the NPU, since I don't need it for my project. The vendor 4.9 kernel didn't support my (third party) touchscreen for some weird reason, but the newer 5.12 does, so I didn't put a lot of effort into figuring out why. Overall, I'm duly impressed with this board, will probably buy another to experiment with after I finish my project (I kind of want to see that NPU do something), and will be keeping an eye out for new products from Khadas.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very good quality, worked right out of the box.
*by A***R on November 4, 2025*

I bought the Vim3 because of its flop speed, wanted to use it for thermal imaging, but so using Android it won’t completely interface. But the board itself worked great right out of the box and passed all other tests. Just need to write code for the interface to app configuration.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's ok, this is truly a "hobbyist" board.
*by D***E on December 13, 2019*

The hardware is sound, however, software/operating system is very "Beta". This is geared more towards to the "hobbyist" market - it's for guys/gals who want to tinker with operating systems, hardware - in particular NPU, etc. If you are into tinkering at the hardware/API level, this is a board for you.

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