New RK3566 Android Tv Box with 8GB of Ram! The New SOC We Needed?

[@SelectStart89]

From the thumbnail I thought it was a Sega Megadrive.

[@QwecySlim]

Me too

[@SethPinnock]

I was expecting more based on the chipset specs. I am hoping you will be able to get software more suited to bring out better compatibly and greater emulation support.

[@ThunderDragonRandy]

9:44 The storage selection issues is definitely from Android 11. Ever since my Moto G Stylus upgraded from Android 10 to Android 11, RetroArch Plus couldn't find my SD card while browsing unless if I change the browsing default location to my SD card on the ini file.

[@la1sh]

I would love to see a TV box with a high end snapdragon chip, it could be good enough to replace a desktop computer for people who doesn't need specific windows apps and a true low power emulation machine to have in your TV.

[@mapz00]

This!!! 💯

[@yeet8044]

A snapdragon 865 or 888 android tv box would be great and could even replace xbox/playstation for some people

[@la1sh]

@@yeet8044 It could play xcloud just fine.

[@thefadebeta580]

I'm honestly thinking about using a used phone

[@la1sh]

@@thefadebeta580 I think this is the best alternative, I just tested an Android tv certified tv stick and was really upset with the lack of flexibility it provides and a generic tv box are just too janky and underwhelming in it's performance.

[@michaelc5019]

Amazon's New Fire HD 10 Tablet comes out soon. Hope you plan on testing it

[@ETAPRIME]

Preordered it, I can’t wait

[@der-Troet]

@@ETAPRIME 👍😉 my Hero!

[@polarnasu]

If I was just using it for comics/books is it overkill?

[@Kimgapryong1]

@@polarnasu nah I use my iPad to read comics

[@polarnasu]

@@Kimgapryong1 I hate apple products

[@JhostinToscano]

Keep it up, Eta. Your amazing work in every video results kind of addictive to me. Mega fan here ✌️

[@MrFlashpan]

Looking at the PPSSPP god of war performance, I wouldn't bother getting any device that is powered by the new rocky cpu! looks mega weak. Thanks for the tip though.

[@JuanGarcia-lh1gv]

The KZbin viewport info isn't very accurate. It often reports OS scaling. So if the text and images are scaled up to 200 or 300% it's going to show a lower resolution like 1080p or 720p even though the video is actually playing at 4k.

[@hcgvr27]

Hey ETA, I was wondering if you could review more of those emulation consoles that you find on Amazon. Those things really interest me. Great job with your channel btw!

[@djutmose]

U might want to check out Wicked Gamer & Collector channel he does a lot of reviews of dedicated emulation devices. Spoiler: most of them are terrible.

[@AdvancedGamingYT]

Hey ETA Prime you should really review a RTX 3050(ti) laptop. Really curious what it can do especially since it's meant for affordable laptops 👍

[@RamgXP]

It would be nice to see how it can a RTX 3050 and 3050 ti Compares to a RTX 3060

[@AdvancedGamingYT]

@@RamgXP 3060 would crush them both

[@IceCream-uy4mc]

@@AdvancedGamingYT but... How about compare it with 2060 or 2070

[@AdvancedGamingYT]

@@IceCream-uy4mc even a 2060 would beat the 3050 it's comparable to the 1660ti

[@lucasgagnon7644]

“affordable laptops”...

[@tongoso]

Thanks for this!!, what Benq model monitor is that one? it looks really good, also you keep saying "monitor" so i wanna know haha

[@gabrielprandini2629]

Waiting an Android tv box that will outperform Nvidia Shield, 6 years and counting.

[@Krayziebone1991]

If you already have a Nvidia shield tv but want more emulation performance I'd say your best bet is to get a older business PC with something like an i5. You'll have no issues at all with PSP, N64, Dreamcast, or GameCube. Also depending on what cpu you get you can even get playable Wii.

[@gabrielprandini2629]

@@Krayziebone1991 yes, that would be the next step, even cheaper than a shield. But nothing beats how convenient it is having your it in my tv box which is already in use every day...

[@paherbst524]

Can you load linux on these things?

[@llusty78]

Apparently, Viewport is just the resolution of the UI. Your KZbin test seemed to be working at 4K.

[@sjftech]

Came here to say this, the viewport is the UI resolution.

[@octolimar]

Do you think you could try some more games on this device? I'd love to see genshin on here!

[@Carbine64]

that's pushing it far too much I think, that's why he didn't test it

[@pickleeggs3340]

just cause it got 8gb ram,i dont think cpu gpu ran do it like an ipad pro,wonder wot genshin is like on new apple tv box.

[@gypsyzz]

genshin is way too harsh on this chip. Not even the best phone chips can run it at 60 FPS for more than a few minutes.

[@pickleeggs3340]

@@gypsyzz not even the latest iphone can run 60 fps,wonder about the new gaming phones with 12/16 ram 🤣

[@gypsyzz]

@@pickleeggs3340 there are tests showing some android phones can run 60 fps for about 5 mins. Ram is not the issue here, it's the processor, and heat.

[@titotv28]

How did you root that? I can 't open folders, access denied to locate ppsspp games.

[@PrinsessePeach]

From what I understand Viewport is just the app interface, Current resolution is the actual resolution of the video. The Nvidia Shield TV has a Viewport of 1080P when watching 4K videos. I believe it is true 4K.

[@luiscarlosgm123]

I don't know I've seen another tv box reviews withe the same software that shows the resolution with viewpoint of 4k on KZbin.

[@MickeyMishra]

A box like this is good for something like a car PC. It has Optical out, and HDMI, & would be PERFECT for a car audio build. If you could load up some DSP software on this, and enable some Linux software on it so that it would do the crossover points, and DSP through a sound card? You would be GOlden! Just use a Tablet as its Interface, and you are set. The Fact that you have HDMI? Means Perfect VIDEO in the car. Optical? You can take that 2 channel audio, right to a outboard DSP and have a PERFECT noise free audio signal that is going to support 24/192 (if the board can do it) so you get the killer app for this board. Plus its LOW POWER! So its better then most Car PC options. And unlike most Phones? It should not overheat as some Head Units also do. I'm not surprised by the shaky streaming support.

[@toytulog576]

I bought a lot of Android TV Box for Kodi.. I found the best is just used a SFF Ryzen 5 3400G APU + FydeOS..You should try FydeOS on your SFF.

[@Zastrutzki]

So the answer is NO. Gotcha.

[@CZARNYEU]

Great Review Brother 👍😃❤✔ Regards from Europe from my channel

[@dorion9111]

soon as it doesn't play god of war I was done...

[@ETAPRIME]

Lol

[@cbrunhaver]

I wish that they would hurry up and release the 3588. It appears to be 1.5 years behind

[@harshbarj]

If it's really that far behind, it may be best for them to cancel it and release a new version.

[@tubeslats]

I left after "It's not a google certified box".

[@BRIC3MAN]

Any emulator frontend like lakka, batocera or other for rk3566 anyone?

[@gumbyx84]

Can you try EmuElec to see if it helps with emulation performance?

[@ETAPRIME]

I tried a few DTB files but nothing is booting yet

[@srvuk]

EMUElec is AMLogic only.

[@Seichii_God]

@@srvuk Only exists build from emuelec supporting only old rockchip processor,the new iterations processors from rockchip doesnt support it and the dev from that emuelec rockchip doesnt want to update it from new processor rockchips.

[@Shane71170]

This box is no good, I bought a 8 core 4GB about 4 years ago so I expect to find an 8 core 8GB with the newest Android OS. I am surprised to see there has not been any upgrades to these boxes since my previous purchase of 4 years ago. So by the looks of it I still have the best box on the market, so sad.

[@weaselgunsru]

Same boring shit as the Amlogic S905X boxes.

[@7PitBullz]

I love how you test and review tech on your channel. There's a new Allwinner h618 chip and the rumor is that it can handle Android 12. Would be cool to see a breakdown on that

[@nach0x]

@ETA_PRIME just a heads up its been reported that Android 11 has compatibility issues with certain apps and native android games also some users have reported problems with wireless gamepads/controls in general

[@radiomanjk]

I really don't get it..... it has no wi-fi support, so you can't stream 4k videos but it does have gigabit ethernet, normally that would support 4k easily but you tell me it doesn't support 4k. Or do you use any other connection instead? I'm really confused and since you kept mentioning this doesn't help either.

[@FranklyPeetoons]

You might get better KZbin 4K results if you used an alternative app, such as SmartTubeNext. It's an ad-free front end for KZbin that works beautifully. Its UI and video player control is nicely granular. You can specify codecs, frame rates, and so on. It's updated very often. I got a FireStick just to use SmartTubeNext.

[@TBWTOBI]

Thanks just got the app for my box doesn't have any ads.

[@srvuk]

No AV1 support, which on it's own spells doom for the SOC (especially as Google is reported to be mandating AV1 support as being a pre-requisite for new hardware, with Netflix expected to follow) and the fact that it is no better than the S905X3 makes it looks like a virtual dinosaur out of the box.

[@Richie016]

High performance gaming for an Android TV Box.

[@MegaManNeo]

The TV you used here looks real good on camera.

[@hotasianstepsister3039]

that's not a tv! it's a computer monitor!!!

[@MegaManNeo]

@@hotasianstepsister3039 Eh... nowadays I see no difference.

[@DJMcMahon6740]

Giggity ethernet 👀 0:49

[@TheEuropeanFox]

If you have an 8k tv, I doubt you need one of these.

[@ricardochavan9671]

God of war emulation very bad

[@BlutoSlice]

Thanks for the review ..I have the mekotronics rk3588 8gb on order which is the only soc that can topple my 2017 shield. This box seems too weak... edit .. i thought this was a new vid.

[@fherny77]

Hello good vídeo but I'm looking for a smart box that I can download apps for watch movies and TV and that support HDR and Dolby vision and Dolby audio which do you recommend me

[@SurprisedBacon]

Downgrading to android 10 or lower will fix that gta sa issue 👍 edit: San Andreas doesn’t work on android 11 unless someone that hasn’t posted anything has it working on 11

[@raelliebenberg4008]

Can you flash EmuELEC onto it? Bet you'd get much better performance on Dreamcast and PSP that way. Android is not great for Emulation

[@armtara3809]

As always, great review. Is it possible to use a USB flash drive in this Android box to transfer data from the box to the flash drive or is the usb port read-only?

[@GTAandApplechannel]

6:33 it's trash

[@Synplex]

2022 RG360 preview right here

[@anakbangsa2417]

Abang saya niat beli x88 pro 20 Tapi saya ragu tidak ada nya bahasa indonesia di perangkat, Mohon infonya apakah unit tersebut bagus untuk saya yg hobby youtube dan nonton tv

[@likethewind5088]

No joke i was searching around to see if the RK3588 had finally made is way into any devices. Nice to see it may be coming soon.

[@kamertonaudiophileplayer847]

How does it compare to Shield? I can't go less performance since listen to DST. Okay, got it, it performs poorly.

[@mynotekungs]

X88 pro20 and mecool km6 which is better? what should i buy ? Or is there another one that is better than recommended?

[@warr1]

I just purchased the new Fire TV stick, however it lags so much, I can't stand it, I need something with more ram

[@iSamYTBackup]

when a cheap android tv box beat up my p10 lite wirh 4gb if ram in antutu the p10 lite glot 101k points and that phone is broken

[@aceentertainment2172]

Misspelt "Storage" and wrote *Storege

[@catconsumer]

can this specs emulate 3ds good? CPU: Core 2 Duo E7500 GPU: GTS 450 1gb RAM: (2x4gb) 8gb 1333mhz ddr3 Pls comment! Luv ur vids

[@onysfx8484]

That graphics card is too old, you'll have rendering errors in 3DS emulation unfortunately (I've tried with older cards, you need something at least something after 2012). The CPU might be able to do it ok, depends on the game of course, I've used a Core 2 Quad Q8300, and it ran twilight princess HD on cemu full speed (but not mario kart 8 or wind waker HD)

[@catconsumer]

@@onysfx8484 ok, i just want to play pokemon games with it lol

[@scottishgamer7210]

@@catconsumer Buy a cheapest GTX 1050 good to go

[@animedrawer69]

Was hoping for better PSP and dreamcast performance. Disappointed

[@Datenschutz_Datenschutz]

Dolby Vision MKV support? If, wich profiles supported?

[@henriquehff]

i have this tv box, and it keeps rebooting and randomly closing apps, what do I do? system is already updated

[@aaadeejay]

It’s a piece of shit, it reboots randomly. Save your money

[@Mototijorola]

im looking for compatible retro system for rk3566 like emuelec ?! anyone knows ?

[@maxxmich]

You get what u pay for.....ddr4 will be more money. Android boxes are always cheap

[@MegaMeatGrinder]

Storege ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )

[@ETAPRIME]

😂 I didn’t even notice this, copied right from the listing. Lol

[@nikkopt]

Ffs.. the number of chips has nothing to do with the number of channels. All these cheap mobile socs are single channel

[@skip741x3]

if it doesnt do 4k netflix or prime, why would anyone buy one of these? its shot itself in the foot right there...

[@engchoontan8483]

The new-school have found the holy-grail of matching batch-numbers and shortest path between RAM and CPU for better performance~! We now have the SoC with matched CPU and IGP and RAM just like a daughter-board, blade, graphics-card as a node, TV-box as a node... beowulf cluster node IPC (inter-process/inter-processor kompewsion) signalling pins and tracing on-board/off-board/outside-box/, ...

[@engchoontan8483]

What if the shape is a rombus. Will it be more acceptable than a rambus.?

[@ginsengjin]

definitely not worth the money though. The x88 company/model version are terrible because you can't use your own launcher and things just generally run terrible on their roms. I don't know what it is but if you can find another rom that runs on rk3566 I bet it'll run a lot faster.

[@siamahmed6896]

Can to use this tv box on my hd monitor? Display resolution 1366*768

[@askdavidhow]

Thanks for the video!

[@ConcealedCarrier]

Just bought a POCO X3 Pro - Let me know if you’re interested in a loan/review. Same design as the NFC but with a better chipset (Snapdragon 860) and higher RAM/ROM (6gb/128gb for the base model). $250 delivered.

[@ZainullahKhan-xb7gb]

Dont buy this it isnt android tv wont get updates cant even play 720 p only 480p

[@harinisrinivas2889]

Can Install raspberry pie or diet pie on this and can I work as desktop, can do partition on the drive and do it?

[@sharkboy980]

Better off buying the Pi-4 then this but great review as always!

[@АлексейДмитриев-ш1ф]

Yep, better software and performance. By the way, what is 8 GB of RAM for in this TV box? Looks like absolute overkill

[@andresvaldevit3692]

WTF how prolific is this guy, does he even have a life to release a new video almost twice a day??? Good job 👍

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Hopefully we see a box like this with that DDR4 RAM that could be real interesting if it's significantly improves performance.

[@avinadadmendez4019]

There are lots of these around, I designed and made one actually. I was impressed by seeing the video using DDR3, it's very uncommon on this platform

[@nuttyl283]

Can It play Farmville 3? Please test Thank you very much.

[@IRWPD]

Has been awhile since I heard about a new Android box

[@microlinux]

Jay, just for the record: having multiple chips doesnt mean you are running on dual channel. N2/C4 have multiple chips and they doesnt work on dual channel

[@memadmax69]

Man... DDR3... and no widevine... Why bother with this thing? I guess its one of them boxes to sucker the knownothings out of a quick buck....

[@AsTheCrowFlies745]

I would understand your argument if this thing was crazy overpriced but for cheap it's not such a bad thing especially for people who just buy this type of stuff to watch KZbin on their TV lol

[@JoelFabiani]

Thanks for the video. The gameplay doesn’t look so different from what we already got on RG351P.

[@raelliebenberg4008]

Yeah but he didn't try any custom firmware like EmuElec, android is terrible for gaming and emulation

[@KINGLIFERISM]

Not a shield thats for sure. Unless it's better than shield makes no sense to unbox it.

[@FriedFinn]

San Andreas hasn't been updated in over 2 years. It needs an update bad. Same goes for the rest of the GTA games on android.

[@chuack]

Have you try black desert mobile game? is it running smooth?

I'm confused on why part of the specs Is censored

[@MiMayonGo]

Android "11" boxes that are not google certified are not android TVs

[@WebLeoTV]

question! can you test it with SMARTTUBE? (youtube clone) i mean it let you choose the quality and the codec you want to used.

[@xorkatoss]

wow this box with 8GB/128GB config for only €82.43 ??? damn android boxes have come a long way! I still use my ancient "Sunvell R69 Allwinner H2 1GB/8GB" and it lags hard 😂 maybe now is a good time to upgrade....unless they release CHEAP Ryzen android boxes :D I mean come on how hard is it for a 4c/4t ryzen cpu to be put in these?

[@TheOriginalJAX]

Try impossible actually, ARM SOC's are RISC based architecture, Android is written for RISC hence why it's runs on your phone so well , Windows is written for x86 architecture which AMD/Intel use. so you have to emulate android in Windows, Bluestacks is a popular option for android gaming on windows for example. until there is a x86 based android distro the answer is no and knowing google that means never.

[@justacasualgamer5774]

Can it handle Genshin Impact? My gut telling me that it can't~

[@AppliedCryogenics]

Haven't watched yet, but initial impression is that the RK3566 looks worse than RK3399, and RK3399 is five years old! The GPU is clocked higher and is newer, but only MP2 vs MP4?

[@Untilitpases]

4:40 Nvidia Shield also shows Viepoint as 1080p... So?

[@ibrahimbader]

hi, thank u, i just received mine, do u know how to switch between running apps? on the old box, i keep the HOME pressed, also the ESC button on my Bluetooth keyboard is not accepted by x88 pro 20..! 🙄🤔 thanx

[@bonzobanana1]

I buy rockchip devices but only because they are super cheap, they are fairly low end performance and often on a more primitive fabrication process. They are fit for purpose though. My tablet is RK3326 I think and two android boxes I have are RK3318 both identical models for different rooms of the house. I'm quite happy with them to be honest. I paid £38 for the tablet with 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage and about £14 for the android boxes with 4GB and 32GB of storage. There was nothing cheaper available except for devices that were too weak to run the software and media I wanted to run.

[@stevenharrison6908]

Does the X88 Pro 20 8gb RAM support the touch function of touchscreen monitors through the USB 3.0 port as is delivered from the factory? Android box reviewers never address this question.

[@jameslewis2635]

Dissapointing that this new SOC can't beat the S905 chips, especially since TV boxes with the S905x3 are available for literally half the price that even the cheapest box based on the RK3566 is available for. For the same price as these chips you can get boxes based on the S905x4 so unless this thing is really being held back with drivers not being ready or something then I can't see any reason for buying one.

[@aminproduct]

Old pc with chromium os is better than this

[@TheOriginalJAX]

Dude, you should include some chipset performance comparison tables and graphs from your benche's. so yeah like how reviewers with pc side of thing. what performs well compared to what and why, beats me personally when it comes to the android tv boxes. for example if this thing is meant to be cpu wise trading blows with S905X3 then I'm out lol cause I can't make head nor tail of these boxes.

[@kattz753]

Chigz reviewed this box too and wasn't particularly impressed either. Nothing beats the Shield in the high end so you might as well spend the extra money and get that if you are going to spend over $100. If you aren't a gamer and really don't want to spend more, Mecool has all of the licenses now. I just don't really see a market for a box like this anymore.

[@mrpugster]

Anyone else getting confused with the whole "Android TV" phrase? Google's official Android TV vs something a cheaper box uses. Makes it hard to find fixes. Just me ranting. Great video as usual.

[@_________-__________-_______]

2:00 why was the internal storage was censored ?

[@magnum.4490]

You should do a review of the latest HK-1 RBox R2 that comes with the exact same processor (RK3566) and 4GB of DDR4. The box itself is the coolest I've seen to date with 3 led strips on top of the box of which you can control the colors or set it to random. You can also turn it off all together. I'm curious as to how well this box will perform with Google Play games being it has DDR4 + the newest processor. The Nvidia shield only provides 3GB of DDR4 and the newest Shield released last year only provides 2GB of DDR4 Just about every Android box on the market claims to be a gaming Android box when the truth is that's the last thing it is because of the hardware. There are Android boxes with 2GB of DDR3 claiming to be a gaming box knowing it couldn't possibly be. The HK-1 on the other hand has the memory so it's just down to the processor .... We shall see. I hope you do a review of it. This box can even be purchased on the wish Network for $60 so it falls into the cheaper boxes BUT the biggest bang for the buck that I have found to date with Android 11. Only one other person "reviewed" it here on KZbin and in all fairness Stevie Wonder could have done a better job. His video was as useful as a screen door on a submarine.

[@stefanobaretti8948]

RK Soc are "powerful" on the paper.....but GPU android driver are not optimized at all (i experienced it with RK3288 in 2015!!!)

[@AllenGuarnes]

How is the 5GHz performance? Maybe for tv boxes you will test in the future, can you test out the 5GHz WiFi and play PC games via Moonlight to see if it's viable for local game streaming?

[@jong2359]

I have never had good luck with these cheap android devices. I have had a few over the years, and they always have some dreadful bugs such as corrupted video output or random crashing (probably bad RAM chips.)