The new Google TV Streamer 4K, the successor to the Chromecast with Google TV, is now officially on sale on Amazon, with a profound improvement in design and hardware.
Design aside, we find interesting new features in this new Google device, since we now have 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage memory, so the narrowing we had in the previous model is over. Network connectivity also improves, since we now find a RJ45 Gigabit network port, long awaited by many users. It is a pity that wireless connectivity is not upgraded to Wifi 6, we do not understand why.
The SoC is a Mediatek MT8696 similar to that of the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K MAX and would improve performance by 22% over the previous model. Audio is also taken care of, as we have support for Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Atmos. All these details we will explain in detail in our next review of the Google TV Streamer 4K in the next days.
Google TV Streamer 4K Specifications
Everything indicates that the Google TV Streamer 4K includes as engine an AMlogic S905X5 Mediatek MT8696 SoC, a more efficient processor thanks to its manufacturing in 6 nm. Inside we would have Cortex-A55 CPU cores that reach up to 2.0 Ghz and a POWERVR GE9215 iGPU that reaches 850Mhz. We will also have AV1, h.265 and VP9 decoding among others.
The RAM is 4 GB, and for storage we would have 32 GB of memory.
Other notable specifications
For network connectivity we have Dual Band Wifi aC, Bluetooth 5.1 and finally a Gigabit Ethernet port. The rest of the connectors are a USB-C for data, power and an HDMI 2.1 video output.
The remote control is updated in design, a programmable button is added that will undoubtedly be very useful and will have a Find My Device function in case we lose it. The operating system will naturally be Google TV, presumably already based on Android 14.
Price and availability
