I did a quick and dirty test of the older Geekbench version on both the 2nd and 3rd-gen Fire TV Cubes and, sure enough, I did see about a 23% performance difference between the two devices with the older version of Geekbench. Update: Amazon let me know that the “20% more powerful” for the Fire TV Cube 3 over the Fire TV Cube 2 was achieved on an older version of Geekbench because it could better utilize all 8 cores in the new Cube than the version of Geekbench that I used. Compared to the top-performing Android TV device, the new Cube is just over 20% more powerful than the Nvidia Shield TV. Amazon also said the new Fire TV Cube is twice as powerful as the Fire TV Stick 4K Max and my testing lines up with that claim almost exactly. With a score of 4,938, the new Cube comes in at just over 18% more powerful than the outgoing 2nd-gen Fire TV Cube, which is pretty close to Amazon’s claim of the new model being 20% more powerful. This benchmark primarily taxes the device’s CPU but it also incorporates some light testing of the RAM and other components, so it does a good job of providing an overall performance rating. The Fire TV Cube 3’s octa-core (4 x 2.2GHz & 4 x 2.0GHz) Amlogic POP1-G CPU is a beast and simply dominates the Geekbench test, as seen in the chart above. I reran all benchmarks this week for all 4K devices (except the Tivo Stream 4K because I simply forgot about it) and reused my past scores (from roughly a year ago) for all 1080p devices. The scores listed below are the average of the top 2 scores for each test. However, benchmarks do provide an even playing field to directly compare the raw power of one device to another, which can provide some idea of how well devices will perform relative to each other.Īs with all my benchmark testing in the past, I ran each benchmark 3 times on a newly factory reset device with all possible OS and system app updates installed. For that reason, they’re not a good way to gauge real-world performance. Whenever discussing benchmark scores, it’s important to remember that these are synthetic tests that push a device to its absolute limits, which isn’t something that happens often in everyday use.
Here are benchmark comparison scores for the new Fire TV Cube 3 against the older Cube 2, the latest Nvidia Shield TV Pro, and many other Fire TV and Google/Android TV streaming devices. Amazon has tossed around some lofty claims of being 20% faster than the outgoing Cube and twice as fast as the very impressive Fire TV Stick 4K Max, but can the new Cube hold up to those claims? I’ve run it through a few popular benchmark utilities to gauge its raw performance and, spoiler alert, as you can probably already tell from the title of this post, the results are impressive. The new 3rd-gen Fire TV Cube has been released and it has some big shoes to fill to take over the flagship Fire TV spot from the much loved 2nd-gen Fire TV Cube.
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