Now that the brand new 2020 Amazon Fire TV Stick three and Fire TV Stick Lite have been released, it’s time to see how they stack up towards present Fire Flixy TV Stick models, previous and present. While computational benchmark scores are certainly not going to inform you how effectively a device will carry out at real-world everyday tasks, they’re still useful to know how a lot raw power each Fire Tv, Firestick, and Fire Tv Cube have to offer, should you push them to their limits. I’ve run all 10 Fire Tv models which have ever been launched via four well-liked benchmarks that take a look at their CPU, GPU, Memory, and more. Here are the results. Each Fire Tv was manufacturing unit relaxation and totally up to date to the latest software version accessible as of immediately. All gadgets were left idle for several hours previous to the take a look at and rebooted for every new benchmark. I ran each benchmark three occasions on each gadget (yup, that’s a hundred and twenty assessments total) and have taken the common of the 2 highest scores.

These are all newly run scores from the last 24 hours on the first, 2nd, & 3rd-gen Fire TV Stick, the Fire TV Stick Lite, the first & 2nd-gen Fire Tv Cube, the Fire TV Stick 4K, the 1st & 2nd Fire Tv packing containers, and the 3rd-gen Fire Tv pendant. One of the most well-liked benchmarks is Geekbench, which runs a couple of dozen tests and provides outcomes for each a single-core and all accessible CPU cores. It primarily taxes the device’s CPU, so it’s interesting that the Fire TV Stick Lite consistently scored ever so slightly better than the Fire Flixy TV Stick Stick 3, regardless that they've the very same CPU. This is likely attributable to the truth that the Fire TV Stick three has onboard Dolby decoding and Flixy TV Stick/AV tools control, which the Fire TV Stick Lite doesn't. One or each of those options in all probability take up a tiny bit of sources on a regular basis, which is reflected on this benchmark score.

A much more distinguished instance of this kind of CPU overhead taken by a characteristic is with the 1st-gen Fire Tv Cube and the 3rd-gen Fire Tv, which, once more, share the exact same CPU. Their single-core scores differ slightly, but there is a major distinction of their multi-core score as a result of the 1st-gen Cube’s all the time-listing mics consume about half of a core always to detect the Alexa wake phrase. The 2nd-gen Fire Tv Cube has a similar overhead requirement, but its highly effective 6-cores have loads of processing power to spare. The AnTuTu benchmark is a cumulative score of its CPU, Memory, and UX assessments. Like Geekbench, it heavily emphasizes the CPU (about 50% of the score), but not like Geekbench, AnTuTu devotes a 3rd of its rating to the portable streaming device’s reminiscence performance. It’s fascinating that The Fire TV Stick three outperforms the Fire TV Stick Lite by about 3% on this take a look at. Looking on the score breakdown shows that the vast majority of that benefit was in the reminiscence assessments.

To confirm the outcomes, I ran the PassMark reminiscence and disk assessments on the two new Firesticks and that test also showed a bonus for the Fire TV Stick 3 over the Fire TV Stick Lite, notably with data write speeds. These subsequent two benchmarks, 3DMark and GFXBench, each check the devices GPU. The GPU is primarily used for video games, so these scores represent every device’s gaming capabilities, but the GPU does play a part in rendering components of the interface and how smoothly it feels when rapidly navigating around. The 2 new Fire Tv Sticks are beaten solely by the 2nd-gen Fire Tv Cube and 2nd-gen Fire Tv box, that are each obvious powerhouses when it comes to gaming capabilities. It’s worth noting that in all of these benchmarks, together with these gaming benchmarks, the new 1080p Sticks barely, however consistently, outperform the Fire TV Stick 4K. It’s probably not an enormous enough distinction to be noticeable in common use, but it’s there nonetheless.

These three newest Firesticks all use the same GPU, use very similar CPUs, and have the identical 1.7Ghz CPU speed/cores. My guess for the Fire TV Stick 4K’s slightly inferior performance is the extra assets needed to output a 4K interface instead of a 1080p interface. The brand new 1080p gadgets do run Fire OS 7, while the Fire TV Stick 4K runs Fire OS 6, Flixy TV Stick so that can also need to do with the performance difference. The newer OS , which is based on Android 9 as an alternative of Android 7.1, portable streaming device could be barely higher optimized. The Fire TV Stick 4K is a superb system and has been very nicely obtained by the Fire Tv enthusiast group, so it’s good to see that the brand new entry-stage Fire TV Stick Lite and Fire TV Stick three carry out simply as nicely as the 4K Stick. It’s exhausting to believe that these relatively cheap and tiny new Fire Tv Sticks now pack about the same energy as the unique 1st-gen Fire Tv field that began it all.