**Testing the N22 Android Development Board**

As a four-core GPU board, I was eager to put the N22 through its paces and see how it performs in various tests. One thing that caught my attention was the release of Open GES 3.1 on the device's website in December, indicating that there may be some new features or updates available.

**Thermal Testing**

To assess the board's thermal performance, I conducted a series of tests using a small fan and placing it directly above the CPU. Given the lack of a heat sink to fit on the tiny CPU, this was the only way to ensure proper cooling. To my surprise, the board didn't throttle as expected, which suggests that it has some decent thermal management capabilities.

**Google Play Store Installation**

However, I did encounter an issue with installing Google Play Store on the device. The app wasn't pre-installed, and I had to use a method I've found effective for other single-board computers to install it manually.

**Benchmarking Results**

I ran a series of benchmarks to evaluate the board's performance, including 3DMark, OpenGL, Geekbench, SunSpider, and Octane 2.0. The results were varied:

* **3DMark**: Scored 8,834, which is decent but not phenomenal given the 8804 core GPU.

* **OpenGL**: Failed to run smoothly, resulting in a frozen board.

* **Geekbench**:

+ Single-core: 1.64

+ Multi-core: 4,661 (impressive considering it's a 10-core CPU)

* **SunSpider**: Scored 687 milliseconds, which is faster than the Raspberry Pi 3 but not designed for this type of performance.

* **Octane 2.0**: Not tested due to issues with running benchmarks smoothly.

**Rankings and Comparison**

The board didn't perform well in rankings, placing it at the bottom of the list behind iPhones. However, its single-core Geekbench score was impressive, considering its low power consumption.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I'm impressed with the N22's performance, especially when compared to other development boards. Its thermal management capabilities are a welcome surprise, and its multi-core Geekbench score is a testament to its potential. While it may not be suitable for demanding tasks like 3D modeling or gaming, it shows promise as an Android development board. With further testing and possibly even a newer build, I'm hopeful that we can unlock more performance from this device.

**Amazon Links and Further Resources**

If you're interested in purchasing the N22 Android Development Board, I've included Amazon links below for your convenience. Additionally, there's a forum dedicated to the 96 boards where you can ask questions and discuss any concerns before making a purchase.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys this ETA Prime back here again today I have another single board computer to show off to you this is the mediatech X20 from 96 boards this is an Android development board it is not meant to be a maker board but you could definitely get away making stuff with this board so this board was not put out to compete with the Raspberry Pi 3 this is a very expensive board coming in at $199 for this unit so here's what comes in the Box the board and you also have some brass standoffs you don't even get a power supply unless you order it with it it takes 12 volts I'm using a 12vt 3 amp power supply for this board let's go ahead and get into the specs because this thing is pretty loaded so all the 96 boards are laid out in the same fashion at the heart of this board we have The Helio X20 CPU it's a 10 core CPU two cores are a72 at 2.1 GHz four cores are a53 at 1.95 GHz and another four cores are A5 3 at 1.4 the GPU is a Mali t880 MP4 so it's a four core GPU and it can be clocked as high as 800 MHz not a bad GPU I've seen the mp2 perform pretty well in some lower n P10 phones so we'll see how this works the board also contains 2 GB of DDR3 RAM 8 GB of onboard emmc storage two USB 2.0 ports HDMI 1.4 SD card slot micro USB for fast Boot and it also uses a barrel Jack for power now this board is powered anywhere from 8 volts to 12 volts I'm using a 12vt 3 amp power supply for this it also has a power button and volume control right above the USB 2.0 ports I previously did a video on the highkey 960 from 96 boards and as you can see on the right here we have the highkey 960 on the left we have the mediatech X20 looks pretty much the same here they offer a bunch of boards and they're laid out in the same fashion so if you were to 3D print a case all of these boards should fit size comparison time starting from the very far left we have the Asus Tinker board followed by the X20 mediatech the orange Pi light the Raspberry Pi 3 and at the very bottom we have the Raspberry Pi 0w so the mediatech X20 is right in line with the Raspberry Pi sizes it is laid out a bit different as you can see the USB ports are coming off the side instead of the front of the board or the back of the board however you want to look at it I actually like this a lot better I wish they added one more USB 3.0 port to this board but I can definitely work with two USB 2.0 ports adding a hub shouldn't be any trouble at all even if it needs to be powered it's now time to move on to some performance now I'm very limited here we're only working with Android 6.0 but hopefully in the future mediatech puts out a new kit or even a Linux build for this board let's move over and see how it performs all right so in this video I'm just going to run some benchmarks and see how it performs in synthetic benchmarks I know that's not real world performance but later on down the road probably the end of this week I'll do a video on some native Android gameplay emulation and things like that the board did come pre-loaded with an older build and I went to get their newest build but that was released in December of 2016 so we're still working with an older build 2 GB of DDR3 RAM move over to the CPU we have The mediatech Helio X20 as you can see it's a 10 core CPU have eight a53 cores at 1.8 and two at 2.3 so their spec sheet was a little wrong the power management seems pretty decent we're not clocking every single core right now cuz we're not doing much at all so a lot of these cores should be sleeping and it looks like they are display I thought this was 1080P and there's no way to change it within the display settings it's only at 720 which is a bit disappointing their spec sheet was correct about the Mali t880 being a four core GPU but we only do open GES 3.1 a lot of new devices are doing 3.2 old build of marshmallow like I said this was released on their website in December this is the newest version I can find I'm really hoping for an update very shortly thermal through all of these tests I used a small fan the CPU is very small and I don't have a heat sink that will fit on it so I set a fan right on top we should not be throttling at all one thing I should mention is Google Play does not come pre-installed I had to install this using a method I use on a lot of single board computers that seems to work I was unable to run a 3D mark it does freeze the board same thing with gfx open GL it just freezes the board but I was able to pull off and in 22 a geek bench a SunSpider and an octane 2.0 Benchmark so for n22 we scored a 68,7 and66 not bad but it's not topof the line at all 3D score was decent at 8,834 given that we just have that 8804 core GPU not bad but not phenomenal either so I always like to check out the rankings and see where we stand against other devices so we're going to go into rankings we're going to be all the way at the bottom but as you can see those iPhones are destroying everything right now so we're not that far underneath the Galaxy Note 5 now I know the Note 5 is an older phone but they're still asking a grip for them on eBay so 68766 we way down here let's head over to geekbench and check out the single and multi-core scores this is geekbench 4 from the Google Play Store remember I do have sufficient cooling on the CPU we scored a 1,64 for single core and our multicore was 4,661 I'm actually impressed with the multi-core score then again it is a 10 core CPU let's see how this thing Stacks up we're just going to go to view online and see what they got listed here so we'll check the top multi-core scores here and at the top is that Kira 960 the same thing that's in that other 960 board that I have at 6,000 29 Galaxy S8 plus 551 we're not that far behind it I'm actually very surprised we scored so high so remember we scored a 4,661 we're still below the Galaxy Note 7 P9 it's really great to see that this board isn't at the bottom of the list since I wasn't able to get any other benchmarks to work without crashing the board we're going to do an online JavaScript benchmark this has been around for years this is SunSpider lower is better let's fast forward through this and see what we can score this Benchmark does have a lot to do with the browser you're using lower is better we scored a 687 milliseconds to put this into perspective the Raspberry Pi 3 running rasbian scores anywhere from a 2,800 to a 3600 so we're way faster than that but this board was not meant to compete with the Raspberry Pi the last Benchmark I ran in this video is an octane 2.0 browser base Benchmark going to just throw this out there the Raspberry Pi 3 scores anywhere from like an 1,800 to a 2600 and I'm being really nice about that 2600 the mediatech X20 scores an 8,801 now this score will vary depending on the browser you're using if I run these on my PC and chrome I always end up scoring higher if I run them in a so overall for an Android development board it does a pretty good job hopefully I can find something a little newer like a newer build or even build one from scratch because this one is from last December I'm sure we can get a little bit more performance out of it so keep an eye out cuz I'm going to have more videos on this coming up by the end of the week I'll do another video on Native Android apps and some emulation I know this is meant to be an Android development board it's $199 it's not meant to be a maker board but there's no reason we can't have fun with this thing if you are interested in purchasing something like this I'll leave Amazon links down below I'm also going to leave links to the 96 boards web page they have a forum there so you can ask tons of questions if you have anything that's worrying you about it before you purchase it if you don't want to buy it not going to hurt my feelings really appreciate you guys watching if you could hit that like button and subscribe like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys this ETA Prime back here again today I have another single board computer to show off to you this is the mediatech X20 from 96 boards this is an Android development board it is not meant to be a maker board but you could definitely get away making stuff with this board so this board was not put out to compete with the Raspberry Pi 3 this is a very expensive board coming in at $199 for this unit so here's what comes in the Box the board and you also have some brass standoffs you don't even get a power supply unless you order it with it it takes 12 volts I'm using a 12vt 3 amp power supply for this board let's go ahead and get into the specs because this thing is pretty loaded so all the 96 boards are laid out in the same fashion at the heart of this board we have The Helio X20 CPU it's a 10 core CPU two cores are a72 at 2.1 GHz four cores are a53 at 1.95 GHz and another four cores are A5 3 at 1.4 the GPU is a Mali t880 MP4 so it's a four core GPU and it can be clocked as high as 800 MHz not a bad GPU I've seen the mp2 perform pretty well in some lower n P10 phones so we'll see how this works the board also contains 2 GB of DDR3 RAM 8 GB of onboard emmc storage two USB 2.0 ports HDMI 1.4 SD card slot micro USB for fast Boot and it also uses a barrel Jack for power now this board is powered anywhere from 8 volts to 12 volts I'm using a 12vt 3 amp power supply for this it also has a power button and volume control right above the USB 2.0 ports I previously did a video on the highkey 960 from 96 boards and as you can see on the right here we have the highkey 960 on the left we have the mediatech X20 looks pretty much the same here they offer a bunch of boards and they're laid out in the same fashion so if you were to 3D print a case all of these boards should fit size comparison time starting from the very far left we have the Asus Tinker board followed by the X20 mediatech the orange Pi light the Raspberry Pi 3 and at the very bottom we have the Raspberry Pi 0w so the mediatech X20 is right in line with the Raspberry Pi sizes it is laid out a bit different as you can see the USB ports are coming off the side instead of the front of the board or the back of the board however you want to look at it I actually like this a lot better I wish they added one more USB 3.0 port to this board but I can definitely work with two USB 2.0 ports adding a hub shouldn't be any trouble at all even if it needs to be powered it's now time to move on to some performance now I'm very limited here we're only working with Android 6.0 but hopefully in the future mediatech puts out a new kit or even a Linux build for this board let's move over and see how it performs all right so in this video I'm just going to run some benchmarks and see how it performs in synthetic benchmarks I know that's not real world performance but later on down the road probably the end of this week I'll do a video on some native Android gameplay emulation and things like that the board did come pre-loaded with an older build and I went to get their newest build but that was released in December of 2016 so we're still working with an older build 2 GB of DDR3 RAM move over to the CPU we have The mediatech Helio X20 as you can see it's a 10 core CPU have eight a53 cores at 1.8 and two at 2.3 so their spec sheet was a little wrong the power management seems pretty decent we're not clocking every single core right now cuz we're not doing much at all so a lot of these cores should be sleeping and it looks like they are display I thought this was 1080P and there's no way to change it within the display settings it's only at 720 which is a bit disappointing their spec sheet was correct about the Mali t880 being a four core GPU but we only do open GES 3.1 a lot of new devices are doing 3.2 old build of marshmallow like I said this was released on their website in December this is the newest version I can find I'm really hoping for an update very shortly thermal through all of these tests I used a small fan the CPU is very small and I don't have a heat sink that will fit on it so I set a fan right on top we should not be throttling at all one thing I should mention is Google Play does not come pre-installed I had to install this using a method I use on a lot of single board computers that seems to work I was unable to run a 3D mark it does freeze the board same thing with gfx open GL it just freezes the board but I was able to pull off and in 22 a geek bench a SunSpider and an octane 2.0 Benchmark so for n22 we scored a 68,7 and66 not bad but it's not topof the line at all 3D score was decent at 8,834 given that we just have that 8804 core GPU not bad but not phenomenal either so I always like to check out the rankings and see where we stand against other devices so we're going to go into rankings we're going to be all the way at the bottom but as you can see those iPhones are destroying everything right now so we're not that far underneath the Galaxy Note 5 now I know the Note 5 is an older phone but they're still asking a grip for them on eBay so 68766 we way down here let's head over to geekbench and check out the single and multi-core scores this is geekbench 4 from the Google Play Store remember I do have sufficient cooling on the CPU we scored a 1,64 for single core and our multicore was 4,661 I'm actually impressed with the multi-core score then again it is a 10 core CPU let's see how this thing Stacks up we're just going to go to view online and see what they got listed here so we'll check the top multi-core scores here and at the top is that Kira 960 the same thing that's in that other 960 board that I have at 6,000 29 Galaxy S8 plus 551 we're not that far behind it I'm actually very surprised we scored so high so remember we scored a 4,661 we're still below the Galaxy Note 7 P9 it's really great to see that this board isn't at the bottom of the list since I wasn't able to get any other benchmarks to work without crashing the board we're going to do an online JavaScript benchmark this has been around for years this is SunSpider lower is better let's fast forward through this and see what we can score this Benchmark does have a lot to do with the browser you're using lower is better we scored a 687 milliseconds to put this into perspective the Raspberry Pi 3 running rasbian scores anywhere from a 2,800 to a 3600 so we're way faster than that but this board was not meant to compete with the Raspberry Pi the last Benchmark I ran in this video is an octane 2.0 browser base Benchmark going to just throw this out there the Raspberry Pi 3 scores anywhere from like an 1,800 to a 2600 and I'm being really nice about that 2600 the mediatech X20 scores an 8,801 now this score will vary depending on the browser you're using if I run these on my PC and chrome I always end up scoring higher if I run them in a so overall for an Android development board it does a pretty good job hopefully I can find something a little newer like a newer build or even build one from scratch because this one is from last December I'm sure we can get a little bit more performance out of it so keep an eye out cuz I'm going to have more videos on this coming up by the end of the week I'll do another video on Native Android apps and some emulation I know this is meant to be an Android development board it's $199 it's not meant to be a maker board but there's no reason we can't have fun with this thing if you are interested in purchasing something like this I'll leave Amazon links down below I'm also going to leave links to the 96 boards web page they have a forum there so you can ask tons of questions if you have anything that's worrying you about it before you purchase it if you don't want to buy it not going to hurt my feelings really appreciate you guys watching if you could hit that like button and subscribe like always thanks for watching\n"