Hello viewers and welcome-to my channel, this is nick here once again with another-TV-box-stop-presentation.
today I have the unboxing and benchmarking review of the latest beelink GT1 Ultimate,
Amlogic S912. octa core Android 6.0 4K TV box. This is the 3rd generation of the Beelink
GT1 line. and I'm eager to see how this one performs. so stay tuned, I'll be back in a
moment.
Ok so I'm back, and thanks for staying with us. As promised, I have with me here the Beelink
GT1 Ultimate, and it comes in the usual Beelink black box packaging.
At the back, here it shows all the core hardware features of the box. Like the model is the
GT1. the CPU is the Amlogic S912 octa core cortex A53 CPU. the GPU is the Mali T820 tri
core GPU, running up to 750MHz. On this white tag here it shows that it comes with 3GB of
DDR4 RAM, and 32GB of internal storage, It has Ethernet 1000 Mbps LAN, and 802.11 dual
band 2.4 + 5.8GHz WiFi, and Bluetooth 4.0. The operating system is Android 6.0, running
on a 64bit system.
Now I'll just take a minute to unpack the contents of the box.
So in the box, you have the Beelink GT1 Ultimate unit itself. You get 1 infrared remote. 1
HDMI cable. a power adapter. and a user manual.
The design of the box is the same as the previous model, with the only noticeable difference,
is the cut diamond pattern here at the top, with the Beelink Ultimate logo displayed.
To the back of the box you get 1 HDMI port. 1 USB 2.0 Port. you have your standard RJ45
Ethernet jack. there's a optical audio SPDIF port, and the power adapter jack. To the side,
you have another USB 2.0 port, and a micro SD card slot. To the front there is only a
small power light indicator, and there is nothing on the other side.
So it's now time to connect this box to my TV, and when I return I'll run some system
and benchmarking apps to see how it scores.
So we're all set, and as I startup the box, it shows the usual Beelink startup animation
and logo. It's the same Beelink animation used in the previous models, and as we are
presented with the launcher, the launcher too is the usual launcher used in previous
versions. The launcher comes with a navigation bar at the bottom for easy navigation. However,
when you startup the box for the first time this bar isn't visible. you have to swipe
in an upwards motion at the bottom of the screen to get it. It has volume controls,
home and back buttons, a cascade button for switching between apps, a hide button to minimize
the bar, your screen capture button, and the power button.
You can add shortcuts to the launcher by simply clicking the plus or minus button, and select
or unselect any app you wish to add to the launcher. It also comes with additional screens
in case you need more space to add shortcuts.
Let's open the apps section and see what apps comes preinstalled on the box. As you can
see, what comes on the box is basic system and multimedia apps like app installer. web
browser and a file browser. media center, miracast, movie player, the Google play store,
Kodi, Kodi addon manager, and a fishing game. However, YouTube twitter and facebook, these
apps don't come preinstalled, so you would have to install them from the Google play
store for yourself.
So at this point I'm going to install some system information and bench-marking apps,
so I'll just pause the video for a second time, and when we return we'll see how it
scores.
So I've install all the apps I need. First let's check to see if the box is rooted.
It shows that the box is rooted, running on Android 6.0 Marsh mallow. this is something
they changed from the previous version, where you had to do an OTA up date in order to get
root access. And as we are on the subject of updates, let's check and see if there are
any OTA up dates for this box. And it says that your system is currently up to date.
please ensure that you're connected to the Internet before checking the updates.
Let's take a look at some system and hardware information.
Under system information, the manufacturer is Nexeon, and the model is the Beelink GT1.
below here it shows the total RAM to be 3GB, this is DDR4 RAM utilized in this version,
and it also shows the internal storage left from the 32GB after the Android installation.
Under the CPU heading. here it shows that the CPU is n octa core cortex A53 CPU. running
on a 64bit system. Below here it also shows the maximum CPU speed is limited to 1.5 GHz
and not 2.0 as it is stated on the box. a speed which this CPU is clearly capable of
reaching. the clock limitation is a precaution to prevent overheating, as these boxes don't
carry CPU fans or large heat-sinks for advanced heat dissipation.
Under the display heading. it shows your screen resolution. and it shows that the GPU is the
Mali T820 which has 3 GPU cores. some people simply say tri core GPU. Below here it shows
the screen orientation mode. and it has a refresh rate of 60hz.
Under the network section. it shows that I'm connected to my 5.8GHz WiFi band network,
and below here it shows the signal strength, link speed, and the frequency.
Under the Android heading. it shows the Android version is 6.0 Marshmallow. and below here
it also shows that the box is rooted.
Under the thermal section. it shows that the box has an operating temperature between 45
to 55° Celsius, this could rise anywhere in the vicinity of 60 to 70° under heavy
activity such as gaming and playing 4K content.
Under the codecs heading, here we have a list of all the audio and video decoders installed
on the box. in this list you can see a couple of the important ones like H.264 HEVC, and
VP9 decoding. I am yet to see H.265 decoding in this list, as well as in all the other
TV boxes previously reviewed on my channel.
And that's it for system and hardware information.
Now for some benchmarks.
First let's look at some memory benchmark speeds. it shows that the box has a RAM copy
speed of 3336 Mbps. the internal memory has a read speed of 49 Mbps and a write speed
of 24. and the SD card has a read speed of 20 and a write speed of 8.
I'll now do a WiFi speed test. The Okla app shows that the box performs well on the 5.8GHz
band, maintaining download and upload speed on a 30MB internet connection.
I'll now run the Antutu benchmark. This test is a comprehensive test performed on the boxes
3D graphics, memory performance, CPU multi treading and multitasking capability, and
it also performs a test on user experience performance. in the end the GT1 ultimate got
n Antutu score of 39183.
Now let's do the Geekbench 4 bench mark, this app puts the boxes CPU to task by running
a series of timed processes. the box then gets a score based on how long it takes to
complete each task. The Beelink GT1 got a Geekbench score of 426 single core, and 2080
multi core.
For the last benchmark, I'm running the Ice storm extreme GPU benchmark. this is just
one of the many tests found in the 3D mark application. It measures GPU performance while
processing lots of pixels and vertices, and it also performs a physics test that measures
high GPU rendering performance. When completed, the Beelink GT1 got an ice storm extreme score
of 5610.
It's called Kodi media hub because it can play all sorts of media types. so I'll now
run some 4K and 1080p videos to see how it performs.
As you can see, it was able to play most of the 4K and 1080p videos with out any issues,
with the exception of the two jelly fish videos that were a bit jerky. I am not surprised,
because all of my boxes to date had difficulty playing those two videos.
For my final demonstration, I'm running a game called WWE Immortals.
To play this game, I am using a Bluetooth game pad and a very cool application from
the Google play store called GKM touch, this app allows you to control any game using a
Bluetooth game pad controller.
As you can see the game ran without any issues, and it was very exciting to play and the 3D
graphics was of a high quality. Did you notice how I was able to get the blocking function,
something very difficult to do on TV boxes. i was able to get it using the GKM touch application.
So in summary, I would definately recommend the Beelink GT1 to anyone as a great TV box
to buy. the only issues I had with this box is the lack of a H.265 decoder missing in
the codecs list, resulting in certain 4K videos of a very high bit-rate having difficulty
to play. The other downside, is that even though it comes with a new kind of remote
and it works better than previous models, it's still an infrared remote, and I recommend
purchasing a wireless air mouse or a touch-pad keyboard for easier navigation. And the last
problem I had, was the glossy surface of the box picked up lots of finger prints making
it look really dirty at times.
So I have come to the end of my review of the Beelink GT1 Ultimate, Amlogic S912 octa
core Android 6.0 4K TV box. If you're interested in this box, a link was placed in the description
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