Amlogic have released the successor to the immensely popular Amlogic S905X – the Amlogic S905X2. The new chipset add support for USB 3.0 for faster data transfers and HDMI 2.1 – allowing for higher resolutions. So how does the new Amlogic S905X2 compare with Amlogic’s other popular chipset – the octa-core Amlogic S912 SoC. Let’s compare the S905X2 vs S912 to find out which is the best chipset. Amlogic S905X2 vs S912: Specifications: Let’s take a look at the specifications of these two popular Android TV box chipsets: Amlogic S905X2 vs S912: Performance: It’s interesting to see that despite the Amlogic S912 chipset boasting more cores thanks to its 8 Cortex-A53 ARM cores in a big.LITTLE design, the Amlogic S905X2’s 4 cores are clocked faster at up to 2.0Ghz. Whilst this means that the Amlogic S912 performs better in multi-core workloads such as multi-tasking, the faster single core performance of the Amlogic S905X2 should provide a slightly better experience when using Android apps, navigating the UI and other day-to-day tasks. It’s also important to call out that the Amlogic S905X2 is the first Amlogic processor to include support for high-speed USB 3.0, offering much faster transfer speeds – perfect for playing high resolution movies from your USB drive or hard drive.
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Amlogic S905X2 vs S905X vs S905D, is S905X2 TV box worth buying?
Amlogic S905X2 vs Amlogic S905X, what is new? Many people know that Amlogic S905X is the most successful CPU in the OTT TV box market. Amlogic S905X2 is actually an updated version of Amlogic S905X. Amlogic S905X2 has a NEW thing compared with S905X: it support for USB 3.0 and HDMI 2.1 (in theory capable of supporting up to 10K resolutions), although HDMI 2.1 is not a practical point at this moment. To be simple, Amlogic S905X2 has USB 3.0 while Amlogic S905X has USB 2.0 only. S905D is a variant of the S905X2 (they come with the same hardware configuration), but it has native support for TDT, satellite and Cable tuners. With the new process at 14nm this type of TV Box will have a more controlled temperature, something that is appreciated since they tend to be products that get very hot. In short, both Amlogic S905X2 and S905D have support for USB 3.0 and HDMI 2.1. Amlogic S905X2 Main Specifications: * USB3.0/PCIE2.0 (PCIE or USB3.0 with multiplexed IO) * Enhanced 8-ch I2S interface * HDMI 2.1: 4Kx2K@75 * Support multi-video decoder up to 4Kx2K@60fps+1x1080P@60fps (Better video decoder than S905X/S912) * H.265/H.264 video encoding up to 1080P@60fps with low latency * Build-in Cortex-M4 core for always on processing * Build-in Cortex-M3 core for system control processing(S905X/S912 also feature with this) * Support LPDDR4@3200 * Amlogic S905X2 build-in 100M PHY and 1000M MAC
Android 7.1 TV Box is coming out
Now android 6.0 TV Box is still mainstream models on the market, although Google already released Android 7.0 and Android 7.1 OS about half an year. In order to provide newest and best android TV box for our customer, our engineers keep developing and testing in past few weeks in factory. Finally, we have developed stable android 7.1 TV box, see screen shot as below: We think android 7.1 OS device will be more popular than android andorid 6.0 in the near future. If you want know more about the details, feel free to contact us, thanks.
Amlogic Released Octa Core Chipset S912
Amlogic plans to launch at least three new processors for OTT boxes and set-top boxes this year: Amlogic S905X, Amlogic S912, and Amlogic S905D. We already knew Amlogic S905 specifications, but I’ve recently received a document with some more details about Amlogic S912 revealing Mali-T820 GPU, a lack of USB 3.0 support, but still some interesting features such as HDMI 2.0a, 4K VP9, 10-bit H.265, Gigabit Ethernet Mac, and so on.