Today i've got my hands on the new Ugoos UT8 Pro.
Now this is a brand new premium quality full Android 11- 4K TV box
and this one is actually powered by a brand new chipset by Rockchip.
Quickly put the specs up on the screen
So this is powered by the Rockchip 3568 Quad Core clocked at 2Ghz
For graphics you've got the Mali G52 with 8GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage.
We do have Wi-fi 6 with dual antennas.
So you've got your internal Wi-fi antenna and then you've got two external antennas that you can see right there.
We've got BT v5.0, a Gigabit LAN, MicroSD card slot
This is running full android version 11, supports 4K HDR at 60fps with HDMI 2.1
5.1 surround sound and comes with a standard infrared remote control.
now quick look what you get inside the box.
So we have a user manual, HDMI cable, power supply and you can see the voltage info. A remote control which does have a built-in mic foryour voice searches and
You can see the microphone button right there, This is powered by 2 AAA batteries and of course the tv box itself.
Now the box is made completely from a metal body and you can see it's finished in this really nice midnight blue color.
So on the front we have nothing, on the side we have an Aux in, audio jack, we've got MicroSD card slot, USB 3, usb 2
and if we keep going, we've got a Gigabit LAN, 2 more USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI 2.1 port,
you've SPDIF audio and a power socket now on this side you will see your antennas ventilation and a physical power button and that brings us back to the front and this is what the bottom of the tv box looks like
so we've got some ventilation and at the bottom we've got two reset holes one says recovery and
one says mask rom so very interesting box i like that you've got wi-fi six you've got three usb 3
ports which is very handy you've also got the micro sd card and a gigabit lan and your spdif
so pretty much feature packed lots of expansion options i can't wait to see how this one performs
so without any further ado let's go ahead get this all set up and find out exactly how good
it really is i'll be right back so first of all i ran a boot up speed test and this tv box took
only 26 seconds to fully load the home screen from a cold start now the home screen is a full android
desktop setup and immediately i'm happy to see that you do have a drop down status bar at the top
and a navigation bar at the bottom now if we head over to the main system settings
go to device preferences and check out the system storage info you will see that this box has
64 gigs of internal storage from which you have 56 gigs free to use and if we have a quick looking
about you will see that this box is running full android version 11. and as usual in yugos tv boxes
there are lots of features and i'll quickly skim through them so quick look under input
and devices you have hdmi cec keyboard and auto fill button manager and something new here we have
menu button so the menu button on the remote can be customized in various different ways which is
a new feature you also have mouse settings and the usb can also be customized from host to otg
and so on so forth now under display and sound you have some resolution settings
under color you have some modes and picture settings to play around with screen position
can also be adjusted along with the screen orientation we do have automatic frame rate
and here is a quick look at the settings for this feature and under advanced sound settings you can
see some of the compatible audio formats supported by this box next up under panels and interface we
have system bars so you can switch on and off both status and navigation bars you have recent
application window hardware monitor which gives you real-time system info for your cpu network
ram and lots more this info can be activated with a floating window to the far left of the screen
or you can just have it on the status bar at the top so pull down with the mouse when you want to
see that info now on the home screen you can see that there is only one pre-installed home screen
now the voice input application can actually be changed from you guys to google assistant
which i'm immediately going to do and finally you can change the animation options from here
as well now quick look under power options you have stay awake screen saver energy saver power
key and timer action and wake up from motion super user allows you to root and unroot your device
on demand and thereafter you have google assistant location accessibility options reboot and advanced
settings which takes you to the full android version of system settings now as soon as i
connected to wi-fi a firmware update has just popped up on the screen it's only 278 kb in size
and you can see the change log it will add hdr support for vp9 and adding plex media
server support too so it's good to see this box is supported by firmware updates good job yugos
so now let's check out the complete system apps what apps you get as standard i have not installed
anything yet so this comes with a few apps to get you started including chrome air screen
file manager and the full version of the official google play store so you can go ahead and download
your favorite apps which i'm doing right now so straight away youtube amazon prime disney they all
need to be downloaded immediately unfortunately netflix is not available from the play store
so you're going to have to sideload that from an apk which i will do a little bit later in the
video now the first app i tested was air screen which is a screen mirroring app for ios devices
and unfortunately it seems like the app is not supported as every time i open the app it simply
crashes so maybe air screen will provide an update but until then air screen is not supported so now
it's time to play some 4k video samples from a usb drive and i'll be doing this with the mx player
app that i just downloaded so let's begin with the high bitrate jellyfish demo so 160 megabits
per second is playing nice and smooth with no issues um i also then tested out the 180 megabits
per second video file and also that played absolutely fine and the biggest test was the 400
megabits per second file and again that played super smooth with no issues so lots of power
and performance this box handles high bitrate 4k with no sweat so now on to some 4k 60 with hdr
all right so moving on to the youtube test and this box does support youtube at 4k resolution
that's right folks spiderman is in fact peter parker
will perform their new song marry me and exchange files in front of a streaming audience all right
so now it's time for the netflix test and as i mentioned before netflix had to be sideloaded
and i used version 6.26 which installed and worked absolutely fine but a mouse was required in order
to navigate and whilst netflix did work quite well unfortunately you were limited to sd quality
amazon prime video also supported maximum sd quality only jeremy had done rather more than that
and unfortunately disney plus did not work i got to the sign in page and after signing in
the app would simply crash every time you open it okay for gaming we're going to be
testing out pubg mobile and here are the graphical settings for this game
maximum graphics you can select is hd and maximum frame rate is high
all of the graphic options are not available to select so checking out some of my actual
gameplay footage you can see that the game is smooth and plays very well with no issues or lag
now for you advanced users drm info shows google widevine level 3 and here is cpu zed where you can
check out the clock speeds at the top do note that it says rk3066 which is not actually true as that
is an old cpu clocked at 1.5 gigahertz and has the mali 400 this box is running the rk3568 which
is so new that cpu z does not actually recognize the name yet but it has detected the correct clock
speeds and graphics information furthermore this box is running android 11 and you do have a root
switch in settings so you can decide whether your box comes rooted or not in the wi-fi speed test we
got download speeds of 66 and upload speeds of 18 megabits per second so quite easily achieving the
top download and upload speeds that our office is capable of and here are the results for the
internal disk speeds so we achieved read and write speeds of 133 megabytes per second so that brings
us to our benchmarks beginning with geekbench single core 161 and multi-core score of 490
and in 92 we achieved 134k so let's see how that compares with the others so here is my top android
tv box chart for 2022 showing you the latest tv boxes and seeing how they compare with each other
now all the boxes are ranked by a score out of five and i have kept some of the best boxes of
last year to start off this chart so as you can see the new yugos ut8 pro has taken position 10
on this chart with a rating of 4.5 out of 5. and it looks like the new chipset is giving us
a better performance than the s922x now you can view the full versions of all my charts online at
chixtech.com and read them at your leisure so there you have it guys that was the yugos ut8
pro and here are my thoughts so first of all the drawbacks netflix and prime limited to sd quality
and netflix has to be side loaded disney plus and air screen keeps crashing because those apps
probably need updating to work with android 11. so not really a deal breaker as i'm sure they will be
updated soon and widevine level 3 security means limited capability for 4k streaming now on to the
positives you have a great performance from the new rockchip 3568 general operation is also smooth
and fast with android 11 did not experience any lag or stuttering while streaming 4k content on
youtube or even playing 4k content from usb drive yugos has jam-packed this tv box with so many
features and tweaks including root options so in the right hands this tv box can do so much now if
you're just looking for a cheap streaming box then this is not for you if you want advanced features
including root options a super fast processor which can even handle playstation 2 emulation
and ongoing ota updates then this is currently one of the best tv boxes for that purpose any
questions or anything you want me to update do let me know in the comments and i'll get it done for
you guys meanwhile thank you so much for watching and i'll see you all in the next one peace you