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Roku Streaming Plus vs Roku Ultra


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Any speed advance with the Ultra?

 

It seems to me to be loaded with fluff, Ultra has a USB port for sideloading content, SD card slot, remote finder MEH.

 

I’m only interested in speed, load times. I like the external WiFi power cable on the Plus, a little velcro and you position it any direction you want. I’m at a loss why they don’t have an external antenna on the TCL or any Roku TV, the idea of repositioning the TV is rather odd to get better WiFi.

 

Looking into buying another stick for the 6 month old new TV because Roku is so damn slow updating the OS on 32 inch Roku TCL TVs. We seem to be the last.

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samuelqwe

I used a 2017 Express and found no issues whatsoever. I now use a 2017 Streaming Stick and it works just about the same, if not just slightly faster with better WiFi. You should be just fine with the Streaming Stick+, it'll probably be plenty fast.

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It is amazing Roku doesn’t post specs on their processor, seems both are quad core, question is, same core?

 

The MIMO is worth the cost if you have a WiFi router that supports it.

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Roku Ultra - CPU: MStar MSO9380 @1.2GHz (ARM Cortex-A53 Quad Core)



 

Roku Streaming Stick - CPU: Mstar ???



 

Roku Streaming Stick Plus - CPU: Mstar ???



 

There are the CPU on both streaming sticks in the internal pictures. One is taped over and the other far too blurry too read. You can make out the CPU powering them which is the giant M with a star in it, so its def an mstar cpu, just not clear which model # or core count.

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Waldonnis

The Streaming Stick looks like a MStar 6A928, but the FCC internal photos are too low resolution to be sure.  Wouldn't surprise me if it was the case, as its featureset aligns with the Stick's capabilities.  No idea what the Plus is using, unfortunately. The shielding obscures the bottom of PCB2, and the top view is worthless for identifying the SoC.  It's probably a MediaTek/MStar of some sort (maybe a 6A938), but Roku may have sourced from a new vendor...wouldn't be the first time.  So many specialised/custom ARM SoCs out there...

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