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Is a new TV box SoC competing with Amlogic S905(X) TV boxes thanks to its quad core Cortex A53 processor, Mali-450MP GPU, HDMI 2.0a, and its 4K VPU with HDR support. We’ve already seen a few products launched with the processor such as, and TV boxes, but I’ve only just received my first RK3328 TV box – courtesy of GearBest – with A95X R2 model. In the first part of the review, I’ll go through the specifications, and check out the devices, and the hardware design, before testing the firmware in several weeks. A95X R2 TV Box Specifications • SoC – Rockchip RK3328 quad core Cortex A53 processor @ 1.5 GHz with Mali-450MP2 GPU • System Memory – 1GB RAM • Storage – 8 GB eMMC flash + micro SD card • Video Output – HDMI 2.0a up to 4K @ 60 Hz with HDR10 and HLG support, 3.5mm AV port (composite) • Video Codec – 4K VP9, H.265 and H.264. 1080p VC-1, MPEG-1/2/4, VP6/8 • Audio – Via HDMI, AV port (stereo audio), and 3.5mm coaxial S/PDIF jack • Connectivity – 10/100M Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi (RTL8189 module) • USB – 2x USB 2.0 port, 1x USB 3.0 port • Misc – IR receiver, power button, front panel LED display • Power Supply – 5V/2A • Dimensions – 9.50 x 9.50 x 1. Lego Harry Potter Nds Rom Download here. 50 cm • Weight – 120 grams There’s no Bluetooth, and the box runs Android 7.1.1. A95X R2 TV Box Unboxing I reeived the box in its retail package marked “A95X R2 Android TV Box”. Click to Enlarge Rockchip RK3328 is connected to a low end 8GB eMMC 5.0 flash (140/8 MB/s R/W speed, 5K/0.6K IOPS), and two SKHynix H5TQ4G63CFR DDR3 chips (1GB RAM).

Ethernet is implemented through ZTE ZX2AA500 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver – also found in, and Essence H1102NL Fast Ethernet magnetics leading to a 10/100M Ethernet interface. It seems crazy to mix a Gigabit Ethernet transceiver with a Fast Ethernet transformer, but that’s what we have here. Maybe they had a large stock of the latter Realtek RTL8189ETV is used for 802.11 b/g/n WiFi.

Other ICs on RK3328_V2_0 board include Rockchip RK805-1 PMIC and DIO2133 stereo audio driver, while the front panel board is equipped with Holtek HT1628 LCD controller driver. The recovery button is placed right behind the AV port, and we can see a 4-pin header on the top right, which must be the serial console. There’s virtually no community development around RK3328 processor right now (AFAIK), but this may change soon, as Pine64 will shortly release ROCK64 board powered the processor. There’s basically nothing to see on the back side, except a sticker with the key specs: RK3328 / 8G-1G-8189.

I’d like to thank GearBest for sending a review sample, and if you are interested you can purchase A95X R2 TV box on their website [ Update: Use GBA95XR2 coupon to bring the price down to $32.99]. You’ll also find the 4K TV box on,, and for around $40. Continue reading. According to your picture instead of the H1102NL a larger 24-pin 1000Base-T transformer could also be used. So maybe this is just a ‘fix’ for Gigabit Ethernet issues (I had to learn half a year ago over at Pine64 forums that average users are happy to cripple Ethernet cables to ‘downgrade’ to stable 100 MBits/sec instead of suffering from way lower speeds due to the Gigabit Ethernet PHY issues some Pine64+ were affected from). Or maybe Rockchip’s RK3328 reference design knows only ZX2AA500 for now? At least we had/have such a situation with Allwinner H3 TV boxes but the other way around: SoC supports Gigabit Ethernet but Allwinner’s smelly BSP does not, that’s why there is not a single TV box out there with GbE.

: When will the rock64 be launched? No idea, at least the board should be officially announced this month. And you’ll find not much information even by googling for ‘rock64 rk3328’ but at least you find the schematics above in comment #6. Wrt nice cases for dev boards I don’t think my opinions are worth to share 🙂 Just as a thought: SBC customers expect vendors releasing schematic, somewhat quality components (so vendor can not source trash and ‘fix’ the problem by downclocking everything in a way the usual Android customer would never notice since only buying irrelevant numbers) and a certain level of qualified support. So they have higher costs compared to the TV box vendors using same SoCs they are compared with I guess only those SBC vendors that also don’t care that much about own efforts for software and support could compete with Android boxes made for a much larger mass market.