GoPro’s New GP3 Chip Could Make It the Action Camera Leader Again — Here’s What We Know

Good day folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. So, by recent activity on the GoPro website and on their YouTube channel and social media, it appears that GoPro perhaps might be launching a new camera. Now, historically, GoPro always releases their updated action camera in the fall, usually mid to late September, sometimes early October. But according to GoPro themselves, they are writing their next generation camera that could be released in Q2. So, we’re looking at anywhere from April, May, or June.

The GP3 Chip: What GoPro Is Claiming

Now, this isn’t coming from a random leak on the internet. GoPro published an article on their website a couple of weeks ago talking about introducing their brand new chipset, the GP3. And from what it looks like, it’s going to be quite the impressive chip. It’s a five nanometer chip and GoPro claims that it has two times the pixel processing. They also state that this new chip is expected to lead the competition when it comes to resolution, frame rate, low light performance, and thermal performance.

Competition is great. When one company starts to push the boundaries, it kind of forces everybody to follow suit. The competition has no choice but to at least match their product and of course push the boundaries themselves, trying to get the edge.

More Than Just an Action Camera — 360, Vlogging, and Cinema

Now really in this article there were two points that I found really interesting. One was that we are going to perhaps get an early release date as mentioned in Q2, but the other point was that they brought up some other information about potential new cameras. They talk about the GP3 powering their next generation cameras including 360 cameras, action cameras, vlogging cameras — which is kind of interesting — and they also talk about an ultra premium compact cinema grade camera. So again, that’s going to be very interesting to see what they do there.

GoPro Already Posted a GP3 Teaser Video

Now, on top of this article that GoPro posted a couple of weeks ago, just the other day, they posted a little bit of a teaser on their YouTube channel — supposedly video that was captured with the new GP3 chip. Really short little video, but some really excellent video quality.

Can GoPro Reclaim the Top Spot?

For myself and my channel, I tend not to use my GoPros as much as I have in the past. I still use them, but they have been kind of pushed to the side by companies like DJI and Insta360. So hopefully with this new chipset, that could definitely position GoPro to be the leader of the pack again. So it’ll be interesting to see what happens.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the new potential GoPro with the GP3 chip. Let me know down in the comments. Hopefully you enjoyed this video and found value in it. Thanks a lot for watching and we’ll see you in the next one.

This article is based on a video by Air Photography on YouTube. You can also find more of Shawn’s work on his DroneXL author page.