**Testing the YouDo Quad: A Hands-On Review**
Today, I am here with the YouDo Quad and I wanted to test some benchmarks running on their Android 6.0 build. Now, this is their beta 1 build for the YouDo Quad, and I wanted to see how it performs. The operating system itself seems pretty smooth, transitioning between different apps with ease. It's very smooth, but I just wanted to show you guys what this thing benchmarks out at.
The YouDo Quad has a FreeScale IMX6 ARM Cortex A9 CPU, which is the quad-core version, and it has Edith Vivant TGC 2000 GPU with one gigabyte of built-in RAM as onboard Wi-Fi. The board itself is built very nice, I actually enjoy using the in-boone to build on this YouDo. It's not quite as fast as other single boards, but it's very smooth and they have optimized it very well.
Let's get into it and see how it performs under different benchmarks. First up, we have Geekbench 3. I've closed all other applications and cleaned the RAM out, so let's run this test. The results are in, and they are looking very good. Halfway through the benchmark, I ran the same benchmark on my iPhone 6s, and it finished about 30 seconds before the YouDo did. This is a good indication of the performance gap between these two devices.
I know the success is a very expensive phone, but this is what I have to compare it to. My single-core score is 2528 on my iPhone, while my multi-score is 4399. The YouDo has a score of 294 for single-core and 926 for multi-core. This is low compared to other devices. Let's move on to another benchmark.
This is an older benchmark, but I've run it on pretty much every Android device that I have owned, so I'm going to use it as a reference point. The screen will flip sideways while we're running this test, but it'll flip back when we're done. We scored 4234, which is below the HTC One X in this benchmark.
Another benchmark I want to run is the AnTuTu benchmark, also known as Antutu. This doesn't come pre-installed with Google Play, so I had to download it from the Amazon Appstore. It's a great tool for testing device performance, and it will give us graphics performance, read and write speed of the RAM, and i/o of the SD card that I'm using.
We'll click "test" here and let it run through. Unfortunately, this benchmark kept crashing on my first attempt, so we can't run it. I also downloaded 3DMark, but it wouldn't load either. So, I'm going to run a quick browser benchmark instead.
This is SunSpider, which tests the JavaScript of the browser. It'll use the CPU to do so. We're going to start now and see if we can finish this test. Our score is 2026, which is slightly faster than the Raspberry Pi 3 but also using a different operating system and browser. This could be due to better optimization for JavaScript.
In all in all, I'd say it's about on par with the Raspberry Pi 3. The big thing is that YouDo is coming out with their x86 board, which is an Adam X5 single-board computer. I've asked several questions about the YouDo Quad on their forum, and received no answer in the last two weeks. This lack of communication from the developers is disappointing.
I hardly got any views on my questions either, so development seems to be coming to a very slow standstill with the YouDo Quad. If they could have optimized this Android build, it could have been really nice for this little board. Hopefully, we don't have that problem with the x86 YouDo now.
The x86 YouDo is the only Kickstarter project I've ever backed, and I'm hoping that we get some good development out of this. It'll run Windows and Android, as well as other operating systems like Linux. This means we can have a decent lifespan for the board. With any luck, this will be a great device for those looking for a compact, powerful computer.
**Upcoming Content**
In my next YouDo Quad videos, I'll be testing video playback capabilities using the browser Cody and Netflix, possibly Crackle or Plex something like that. I'll also be testing how native Android apps run on this unit. Additionally, I'll definitely be making a video on emulation running on the YouDo Quad with their Android 6.0 build. Stay tuned for those!