ROCKCHIP H96 RK3576 M9 128GB TV BOX REVIEW.
This website has repeatedly told our readers NOT to buy Rockchip CPU’s in Android TV Boxes, today we capitulate, this box is marvelous and might be the best now available.
ROCKCHIP H96 RK3576 M9 TV BOX REVIEW.
Lets start by saying for £52 on AliExpress this is one very fast Android 14 TV box, it comes with the mobile version of the play store but it sometimes gets confused, some apps like Pluto TV won’t load.
That’s about the only thing that does not work, in fact it can play all forms of HDR and the complete package of audio codecs even though they are not listed as such in Aida64.
Lets get onto the performance straight out of the box, try and get the 128GB with 8GB ram version you wont be disappointed.
Using the AS 1 SSD test the 8GB DDR 4 tv box version has a ram copy speed of 9400 that has to be some sort of TV Box world record.
On TV BOX Reviews we still use the older Geek-bench 4.4 benchmark reason being all TV Boxes of the last several years use that standard.
Other reviewers like to use version 5 and 6 but that makes a proper comparison with competing TV boxes very difficult to compare.
So the last few years 80% of all known Boxes were really from Amologic mostly S905X4 or similar, Geek-bench 4.4 scores were around the 2,200 for their CPU.
This RK3576 scored on average 5700 points and even the high-end over priced S928x boxes found in Ugoos boxes can only reach 3500 it shows this cut down RK3588 can still really fly.
Where this box really excels is in it’s graphics department, this box will play any game with absolute ease, lets put it this way, its Mali – G52 MC3 is actually 6 times faster than that of the S905x4 G31 MP2 and all reviewers thinks that one is great.
AnTuTu 10.4 scores 341,400 which is three times that of the afore mentioned boxes above.
This box has no storage upgrade path but with the 128GB version you wont be running out of space anytime soon.
Speaking of this internal 128GB it has an amazing read speed of 211.64 MB/s and a write speed 203.24 MB/s that.s an insane speed for a cheap TV Box that the big boys simply can’t match or even get close as seen above.
It loads apps like a speed demon, it has the fastest menus going, its Wi-Fi 6 is superb, plays all TV apps including for educational purpose only IPTV perfectly.
My only gripe is the Play-Store really tries hard to protect your box from allegedly dodgy apps but you can enter the Play-store menu and switch off play protect app if you don’t value or need Googles app protection.
We don’t because we only use these boxes to watch free TV and play fantastic Android Games we don’t use them as mini-PC’s, bank access app’s or social media, but of course others can just be extra careful.
For 52 pounds it is an absolute steal and gives so much user future proofing for a TV Box you can buy, we think it may be the best out of the box money can currently buy!
X96 MAX-PRO-Q H728 TV Box.
Stop press – If your budget can’t quite stretch to £52 0r $65 we think we might have the answer in the brand new £25 X96 MAX-PRO-Q H728 TV box we will review soon and is on our test bench right now which is a brilliant box as well.
More info can be found here although we don’t agree on the conclusions at the end but everything else is spot on, judge for yourselves, don’t take our word for it.