ODROID XU4 Android 7.1 Benchmarks + Kodi test and native game test CyanogenMod 14.1
# Article: A Comprehensive Review of the Odroid XU4 with Cyanogen MOD 14.1
## Introduction and Setup
Hello, everyone! It's ETA Prime back again today with the Odroid XU4. I’m excited to share my experience testing the Cyanogen MOD 14.1 build on this device. If you're in the United States and looking to purchase an Odroid XU4, C2, or C1, I highly recommend checking out Aerodroid. They offer a wide range of single-board computers (SBCs) and accessories, eliminating the long wait times associated with shipping from China. Their inventory includes Raspberry Pis, Odroids, LCD screens, and everything you need for your SBC projects. Let’s dive right into it!
## Hardware Specifications
The Odroid XU4 runs very stably on Cyanogen MOD 14.1, which is based on Android 7.1. Let’s take a closer look at the hardware specs using Ida 64.
- **CPU:** Samsung Exynos Octacore 5422 with four cores running at 2 GHz and four cores at 1.4 GHz.
- **GPU:** Mali T628, a 6-core GPU clocking up to 543 MHz.
- **Graphics:** Supports OpenGL ES 3.0.
I’m using an eMMC module for storage, which has worked well so far.
## Performance Benchmarks
To gauge the performance of the Odroid XU4, I ran several benchmarks:
1. **3D Mark:**
- Slingshot ES 3.0 score: 651
- Ice Storm Unlimited score: 14,539
2. **n22 Benchmark:** Scored 59,611 after running it twice.
3. **Quadrant Benchmark:** Score of 18,484.
These scores are impressive for an SBC, especially when compared to other devices in its class. For instance, Android boxes with the Amlogic S912 processor typically score between 30,000 and 38,000, making the Odroid XU4 a standout performer.
## Gaming and Media Consumption
The Mali T628 GPU is quite powerful for an SBC. I tested Asphalt Extreme, the latest game in the series. The game runs smoothly at 60 FPS in 1080p.
For gaming, I used a wired Xbox 360 controller, which worked flawlessly. Configuring the display to 720p can further enhance performance if needed.
## Emulation Capabilities
Emulation is another area where the Odroid XU4 shines. I tested Conker’s Bad Fur Day, an N64 emulator known for its high demands. Despite some minor lag, the game ran smoothly with consistent FPS, making it a great choice for retro gaming enthusiasts.
## Software and Operating Systems
The device supports multiple operating systems:
- **Android**
- **Ubuntu**
- **Debian**
- **Linux Mint**
- **Kali Linux**
I primarily tested Android in this review, but the versatility of the Odroid XU4 is evident from its ability to run various OS.
## Comparison with Raspberry Pi 3
When comparing the Odroid XU4 with the Raspberry Pi 3:
- The Raspberry Pi 3 offers extensive development resources and community support, making it ideal for beginners.
- The Odroid XU4 is more powerful but may not receive consistent updates. It’s a formidable opponent if you’re looking for raw power.
## Recommendations
If you’re considering purchasing an SBC, start with the Raspberry Pi 3 unless you need more processing power. However, if performance is your priority, the Odroid XU4 is worth serious consideration.
Aerodroid is my go-to source for all SBC-related purchases in the U.S., so be sure to check them out.
## Conclusion and Call to Action
Overall, I’m impressed with the Odroid XU4. While it may not replace my Raspberry Pi 3 as a daily driver, it’s an excellent device for more demanding tasks. If you have any specific games or applications you’d like to see tested on this platform, feel free to comment below!
Thanks for watching, and I’ll catch you in the next video!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys it's ETA Prime back here again today I'm back with the ooid xu4 and I wanted to test out the Cyanogen MOD 14.1 build it's a really nice build everything seems very very stable here if you're in the states and you're looking to purchase an ooid xu4 C2 or C1 I definitely recommend aerro Droid they sell all types of single board computers and accessories so you don't have to wait for that China shipping and it's a big plus for me because every time I order something it's from China and it takes weeks to get here link is in the description if you want to go check them out they got raspberry pies o droids uh pretty much everything LCD screens everything you need for your single board computers let's get right into it here yeah this runs very very stable now there's no Bluetooth or Wi-Fi built on to the ooid xu4 but I am using a Wi-Fi dongle and it worked amazing like right out of the box we're going to go to about tablet as you can see I'm on Cyanogen MOD 14.1 this is Android 7.1 let's open up Ida 64 so we can see the specs of this board this is the hard kernel o Droid xu4 even though it says xu3 here I'm on the xu4 they're pretty much the same board the CPU is a Samsung exos octacore 5422 for the the cores are at 1.4 GHz and four of the cores are at 2 GHz the GPU is a Mali t628 6 core GPU and it clocks all the way up to 543 mahz we have open GL es 3.0 so I'm running this from an emmc module what I did was I went in and I Benchmark these I ran 3D Mark twice I ran n22 twice I ran gfx bench once because it takes so long geek bench will not finish let's check out 3D Mark so with slingshot es 3.0 I scored a 651 with ice storm unlimited I scored a 14539 now I've tested a lot of arm-based single board computers and this by far is the highest scoring Android single board computer that I have tested it's not super impressive in the scores but these are benchmarks let spe out of here next up I ran and22 Benchmark and I ran this twice and we scored a 59,61 19 really good score for this little tiny unit here um the Android boxes that run the am logic s912 8 core score anywhere from 30,000 to 38,000 so this is way above those let's go to ranking and if we look at the top the iPhone 7 plus is a 172,0 44 ridiculous score iPhone 6s well we'll do the Galaxy S7 here 1345 99 we scored a 59,61 not bad at all and still yet again the best arm Bay single board computer score that I have seen so far and we'll run a quick quadrant with quadrant I scored a 18 , 484 I know you probably can't see that I know this is an older Benchmark here but I have used it since the first My Touch came out so so I always use this Benchmark next up gfx bench so here's my results now this does have a Mali t628 6 core GPU and it's actually very very powerful for a single board computer but when we go to compare my device's best score here was a 614 compared to the Apple iPhone 7 which is a 3,776 the Nvidia Shield Android TV console scores a 3,330 so yeah I mean it's a low power device it's a single board computer this has crushed every Android box that I've tested except for the shield the shield in my opinion is the best Android TV media player that you can buy right now but this ooid does a really really good job we can run Android we can run umuntu we can run Debian we can run lacka we can run recall box there are tons of operating systems available for this single board computer next thing I wanted to do was just show you Cody now I installed this I installed AIS Wizard and I installed a nice add-on here which is one of my favorites go to movies video add-ons and I always use exodus we'll go to TV shows and I'm using Wi-Fi here so it's actually pretty fast I'm using a slower Wii connection that I have here very close um let's go to most popular one of the best shows right now on TV is Westworld well last episode uh already came out but it's so good if you haven't seen it go ahead and try it out what I'm going to do is just start this video and we can't go long into it because of the copywritten material but I want to show you that it does Cody works really well on the xu4 while running this Cyanogen MOD build so I'm using an Xbox 360 wired controller right now I also have a mouse and keyboard connected let's just skip right in here as you can see it runs really good let me get out of here can't show much more of that let me go and close everything that I've opened up and we're going to test a couple games here one of the games that I always get requested is Minecraft the problem is I own Minecraft on a different account it's actually my wife's account she's not here right now so I cannot install it from that account I will be coming back to this to test out Minecraft and if you want to see any other games running on this unit let me know in the comments I'll add them into the video but for right now we're going to test asphalt extreme the newest Asphalt game that's come out recently so with most Chinese Android TV boxes you cannot hook up your controller I'm using a wired Xbox 360 controller to play this game right now and it works great come on I I see it there we go now you can configure the display to go to 720p if you'd like and that should improve performance in pretty much everything but I'm running at 60 FPS 1080P and this game runs really well I'm 100% sure that Minecraft Pocket Edition is also going to run very good on this board I just need to wait so I can sign in with my other account and download it so that's asphalt extreme there looks great and I'm going to try Asphalt 8 so the CPU definitely handles tasks way better than the amlogic CPUs that come in the Chinese Android boxes like the amlogic s905 or even the newer s912 this is the same CPU and GPU that was in the international Samsung Galaxy S5 it's still a really nice CPU I mean compared to a $700 Android phone it's nothing compared to those but we're talking about a780 single board computer so there's one last thing I wanted to show you guys for my main View viewers I do a lot of emulation I want to test out conquer's Bad Fur Day this is one of the hardest games to run on the N64 emulator oh on any system and we get really good performance out of this game here now there's still going to be a little bit of lag I'm using mopin FZ from the Google Play store but I have the FPS listed at the very bottom bottom there and I just wanted to run through here a little bit and show you guys what you can expect in retro emulation it's really not that bad it looks good and it runs so much better than any other Android TV box that I've tested except for the Nvidia Shield but that's a $200 unit there so overall I really like the odroid xu4 I have tested a lot of operating systems on it now I'm probably not going to keep Android on this as like a daily driver because I have so many Android boxes but you could if you wanted to it is more expensive than the Raspberry Pi 3 but it is more powerful being more powerful doesn't mean it's a better board you guys have to know that because I I've had people ask me should I buy the O Droid or should I buy the Raspberry Pi 3 if you're just starting out get the Raspberry Pi 3 there is tons of development going on for the Raspberry Pi 3 and there will be for years to come with the ooid xu4 it does have a big Community but nothing like the Raspberry Pi so we're not sure if it's going to be developed for for the next 6 months or not they could just quit in the next 8 months and we'll never get an update that's things you need to look out for when looking at a single board computer I have a box of single board computers and a lot of them have not had an update in over a year so it really sucks I will always go to the Raspberry Pi and I will always suggest the Raspberry Pi but the ooid xu4 is a formidable opponent if you guys could hit that like button and subscribe cuz I got a lot more coming leave a comment tell me what you want to see running within Android and I'll get the video made like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys it's ETA Prime back here again today I'm back with the ooid xu4 and I wanted to test out the Cyanogen MOD 14.1 build it's a really nice build everything seems very very stable here if you're in the states and you're looking to purchase an ooid xu4 C2 or C1 I definitely recommend aerro Droid they sell all types of single board computers and accessories so you don't have to wait for that China shipping and it's a big plus for me because every time I order something it's from China and it takes weeks to get here link is in the description if you want to go check them out they got raspberry pies o droids uh pretty much everything LCD screens everything you need for your single board computers let's get right into it here yeah this runs very very stable now there's no Bluetooth or Wi-Fi built on to the ooid xu4 but I am using a Wi-Fi dongle and it worked amazing like right out of the box we're going to go to about tablet as you can see I'm on Cyanogen MOD 14.1 this is Android 7.1 let's open up Ida 64 so we can see the specs of this board this is the hard kernel o Droid xu4 even though it says xu3 here I'm on the xu4 they're pretty much the same board the CPU is a Samsung exos octacore 5422 for the the cores are at 1.4 GHz and four of the cores are at 2 GHz the GPU is a Mali t628 6 core GPU and it clocks all the way up to 543 mahz we have open GL es 3.0 so I'm running this from an emmc module what I did was I went in and I Benchmark these I ran 3D Mark twice I ran n22 twice I ran gfx bench once because it takes so long geek bench will not finish let's check out 3D Mark so with slingshot es 3.0 I scored a 651 with ice storm unlimited I scored a 14539 now I've tested a lot of arm-based single board computers and this by far is the highest scoring Android single board computer that I have tested it's not super impressive in the scores but these are benchmarks let spe out of here next up I ran and22 Benchmark and I ran this twice and we scored a 59,61 19 really good score for this little tiny unit here um the Android boxes that run the am logic s912 8 core score anywhere from 30,000 to 38,000 so this is way above those let's go to ranking and if we look at the top the iPhone 7 plus is a 172,0 44 ridiculous score iPhone 6s well we'll do the Galaxy S7 here 1345 99 we scored a 59,61 not bad at all and still yet again the best arm Bay single board computer score that I have seen so far and we'll run a quick quadrant with quadrant I scored a 18 , 484 I know you probably can't see that I know this is an older Benchmark here but I have used it since the first My Touch came out so so I always use this Benchmark next up gfx bench so here's my results now this does have a Mali t628 6 core GPU and it's actually very very powerful for a single board computer but when we go to compare my device's best score here was a 614 compared to the Apple iPhone 7 which is a 3,776 the Nvidia Shield Android TV console scores a 3,330 so yeah I mean it's a low power device it's a single board computer this has crushed every Android box that I've tested except for the shield the shield in my opinion is the best Android TV media player that you can buy right now but this ooid does a really really good job we can run Android we can run umuntu we can run Debian we can run lacka we can run recall box there are tons of operating systems available for this single board computer next thing I wanted to do was just show you Cody now I installed this I installed AIS Wizard and I installed a nice add-on here which is one of my favorites go to movies video add-ons and I always use exodus we'll go to TV shows and I'm using Wi-Fi here so it's actually pretty fast I'm using a slower Wii connection that I have here very close um let's go to most popular one of the best shows right now on TV is Westworld well last episode uh already came out but it's so good if you haven't seen it go ahead and try it out what I'm going to do is just start this video and we can't go long into it because of the copywritten material but I want to show you that it does Cody works really well on the xu4 while running this Cyanogen MOD build so I'm using an Xbox 360 wired controller right now I also have a mouse and keyboard connected let's just skip right in here as you can see it runs really good let me get out of here can't show much more of that let me go and close everything that I've opened up and we're going to test a couple games here one of the games that I always get requested is Minecraft the problem is I own Minecraft on a different account it's actually my wife's account she's not here right now so I cannot install it from that account I will be coming back to this to test out Minecraft and if you want to see any other games running on this unit let me know in the comments I'll add them into the video but for right now we're going to test asphalt extreme the newest Asphalt game that's come out recently so with most Chinese Android TV boxes you cannot hook up your controller I'm using a wired Xbox 360 controller to play this game right now and it works great come on I I see it there we go now you can configure the display to go to 720p if you'd like and that should improve performance in pretty much everything but I'm running at 60 FPS 1080P and this game runs really well I'm 100% sure that Minecraft Pocket Edition is also going to run very good on this board I just need to wait so I can sign in with my other account and download it so that's asphalt extreme there looks great and I'm going to try Asphalt 8 so the CPU definitely handles tasks way better than the amlogic CPUs that come in the Chinese Android boxes like the amlogic s905 or even the newer s912 this is the same CPU and GPU that was in the international Samsung Galaxy S5 it's still a really nice CPU I mean compared to a $700 Android phone it's nothing compared to those but we're talking about a780 single board computer so there's one last thing I wanted to show you guys for my main View viewers I do a lot of emulation I want to test out conquer's Bad Fur Day this is one of the hardest games to run on the N64 emulator oh on any system and we get really good performance out of this game here now there's still going to be a little bit of lag I'm using mopin FZ from the Google Play store but I have the FPS listed at the very bottom bottom there and I just wanted to run through here a little bit and show you guys what you can expect in retro emulation it's really not that bad it looks good and it runs so much better than any other Android TV box that I've tested except for the Nvidia Shield but that's a $200 unit there so overall I really like the odroid xu4 I have tested a lot of operating systems on it now I'm probably not going to keep Android on this as like a daily driver because I have so many Android boxes but you could if you wanted to it is more expensive than the Raspberry Pi 3 but it is more powerful being more powerful doesn't mean it's a better board you guys have to know that because I I've had people ask me should I buy the O Droid or should I buy the Raspberry Pi 3 if you're just starting out get the Raspberry Pi 3 there is tons of development going on for the Raspberry Pi 3 and there will be for years to come with the ooid xu4 it does have a big Community but nothing like the Raspberry Pi so we're not sure if it's going to be developed for for the next 6 months or not they could just quit in the next 8 months and we'll never get an update that's things you need to look out for when looking at a single board computer I have a box of single board computers and a lot of them have not had an update in over a year so it really sucks I will always go to the Raspberry Pi and I will always suggest the Raspberry Pi but the ooid xu4 is a formidable opponent if you guys could hit that like button and subscribe cuz I got a lot more coming leave a comment tell me what you want to see running within Android and I'll get the video made like always thanks for watching\n"