Greetings, and welcome to TV box stop, today we have the long awaited review of the Alfawise
H96 Pro plus, Amlogic S912 Octa Core Android 6.0 4K TV box. After this short message, I'll
be doing some benchmarking and system tests to see how well it performs, so stay tuned,
I'll be right back after this.
Welcome back. The Pro plus comes packaged in this nice black and gold box, as you can
see in the box you have the box itself, you have an infra red remote control, an HDMI
cable, your power adapter, and the user manual. To the back, I see that it comes with 1 HDMI
Port, your standard RJ45 Ethernet jack, For audio options I see we have optical audio
and an audio video port. The power adapter jack is also here on the right.
On the left we have two USB Ports, these ports are 2.0 Ports. and on the other side we have
the SD card slot, It has no clock display, no USB 3.0, and the power indicator light
is at the top next to the logo. Its housing is made of plastic, and below the box has
ventilation ports to prevent overheating.
So I'll pause this video and connect the box to a TV, and when I return I'll do the benchmarks
and see how well it scores, So sit tight, I'll be back.
So I'm back, and this is the startup of the H96 Pro plus, and as you can see it takes
a couple of seconds, a little longer than I expected but , Ok there we go. And this
is the launcher. The launcher is similar to many of the other TV boxes I've reviewed,
with the navigation bar at the bottom. On this bar you have volume controls, this one
is the home button, and this is the back button, this one is the cascade button for switching
between apps, this is the screen capture button, this one is to adjust brightness, this one
over here is the power button, and this button hides the bar. Once you hide the bar, it can
be restored buy simply swiping upwards at the bottom of the screen.
To make this launcher easier to use, you can add shortcuts to your favorite apps by simply
clicking on this add button, and selecting any app you want to add from the list like
this, To remove shortcuts is the same process, only this time you would unselect the apps
you want to remove.
If we click on the apps section, you can see that the H96 Pro plus comes with some basic
standard apps. You have apps like Facebook, Gmail, Kodi, Miracast, Netflix, Google Play
store, media player, YouTube, and Twitter. The other apps shown here, are the ones that
I installed during the break for testing and benchmarking purposes.
One of the first app I always like to run, is the root checking app called root check.
For those who aren't familiar with what's root access, or what some people call being
rooted, This is an term used to indicate weather your Android operating system, is set up in
a way that allows you the freedom to download and install any app you like. This is important
because there a many apps that require your device to be rooted, and without it you cannot
download and install these apps. And as it shows here the H96 Pro plus is rooted, running
on Android 6.0 point 1 Marshmallow.
For system information, I like to run the app called AIDA64. AIDA64, gives you all the
information about your device that you need to know. And if we look under the system section,
it shows Amlogic to be the manufacturer, the model as the H96 Pro plus, it shows a total
of 3 GB DDR3 RAM, and the total internal storage as 25 GB, that's the remainder after the Android
installation. However, you are not limited to this, because you can now convert external
storage into internal storage, a new feature under Android 6.0. This can be done via an
external hard drive, a flash drive, or an SD card.
Under the CPU section, it shows that the H96 Pro Plus runs on an octa core cortex A53 CPU,
on a 64bit system. Its max speed is up to 1.5 GHz and not 2.0 as it is stated in the
promo. And below there's some more information about clock speeds and CPU utilization.
Under the display section, it shows the screen resolution, and the GPU as the Mali T820.
The Mali T820, is a tri core GPU running up to 750 MHz, with a refresh rate of 60 Hz.
It is equivalent, and exceeds the performance of the octa core Mali 450.
Under the network section, it shows that I'm connected to my 5.8 GHz WiFi, and it displays
the link speed and signal strength. A network speed test will be performed in a minute to
measure its performance.
Under the Android section, it shows that the H96 Pro plus is running on Android 6.0 marshmallow,
and just below here again it shows that it's a rooted device.
Under the thermal section, it shows the H96 pro plus to have an operating temperature
of around 50 to 60 degrees Celsius. This can increase or decrease depending in what you
are running on the box, along with room temperature.
Under the codecs section, it shows a list of all the different decoders that comes with
the box. I see that it comes with H.264 and VP9 decoding, and I am not seeing H.265 in
this list.
And thats it for AIDA64 system and hardware information.
One thing I noticed, is that I couldn't get the O T ei updates to work, I got this message
when attempting an update, so I don't know if the box is up to date or not.
I will now run a WiFi speed test, to see how the 5.8 GHz band performs. I'm running an
AC dual band router, on a 30MB internet connection. And from what I am seeing, with the router
in the same room the H96 Pro Plus, had no loss in download and up load speed. This could
change over longer distances, or with the router being in a different room.
And now on to the benchmarks.
For the first benchmark, I usually run the Antutu benchmarking application. For those
new to testing TV boxes, the Antutu benchmark, is a comprehensive benchmarking application
that runs a series of tests on your Android device. These test comprises of 3D graphics,
off screen rendering, image processing blur, 3D physics simulation, and image processing
fish eye. It carries out a test on memory performance, and CPU multi treading and multitasking
capability, And it also performs a test on user experience performance. This test takes
around 7 minutes, and in the end the H96 Pro plus got a score of 40676.
Next is the Geekbench 4 application. This is one of those benchmark apps I like to run
to test the CPU. The Geekbench 4 application, runs a series of tests on your CPU, and it
times how long the processor takes to complete each tasks. The quicker the CPU takes to complete
each one, the device in turn will get a higher score. The H96 Pro plus got a score of 431
single core, and 2209 multi core.
For the final benchmark we have the Ice storm extreme GPU benchmarking application. Ice
storm extreme, is a comprehensive graphics rendering application that measures GPU performance.
The first test measures GPU performance while processing lots of vertices. The other test
measures performance while processing lots of pixels. And the third test which is the
Physics test measures CPU performance. The H96 Pro plus got a score of 6152.
Let's open the Kodi application, which is the most widely used application on TV boxes.
If you go under settings to system information, here you can see what version of Kodi you
have installed. On the H96 Pro, it is Kodi 16.1 Jarvis. If you go under video addons,
here you get a list of all the major video addons that comes preinstalled on this box.
It comes with a variety of movies, TV shows, sporting events, and live TV for your enjoyment.
The Kodi application has built in video codecs for playing 4K videos at different frames.
You can also use the movie player that comes with your Android installation. So I have
some 4K videos at different frames, and I will run them to see how the box handles the
different formats.
This is a duck pond 4K video at 29.97 frames. I see there was a little stutter at the beginning,
but it plays smoothly after that without any issues.
Now I'll run this fireworks video at 50 frames. This is also a H.264 format and it plays without
any issues.
Let's now try this 4K H.264 video at 60 frames. And it looks like the Kodi player is having
some difficulties with this video, lets try it in the movie player. It plays better using
the movie player, but the picture was not smooth and there was some sound problems.
So it has some problems with 4K at 60 frames.
As always I like to end my TV box review with a high graphics game. This game, is called
Mortal Kombat X.
On the H96 pro plus, it runs smoothly with out any issues. For those of you who are wondering
what controller I'm using to play this game, I am using my rooted Android tablet and a
mirror screen application called Mirro o pee.
So I've come to the end of my review of the Alfawise H96 Pro plus, Amlogic S912 octa core
Android 6.0 4K TV box. If you are interested in this box, a link was placed in the description
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