Zidoo X9 Media Player review
4. Benchmarks
Since the player is based on the Android operating system, we were able to run some benchmarks in order to give you an idea of what you should expect from this little box. The CPU-Z software confirms the presence of the Mstar MSO9810 chipset -- a quad-core chip clocked at 1~1.5GHz and an ARM Mali-450 GPU:
CPU-Z also reports that the system is already rooted and that its total RAM is 1.60GB:
In the table below you see the the test results we got with various benchmarks:
Benchmark |
Score |
AnTutu 5.6.1 (Pics 1, 2) | 18147 |
AnTutu Video Benchmark (1080p) | |
3D Mark IceStorm Extreme | |
GeekBench 3 (Single Core) | |
GeekBench 3 (Multi-Core) | |
BaseMark OS II (overall score) | |
BaseMark X v1.1 | |
GFXBench ( T-Rex) | |
Quadrant benchmark | Cannot start |
The above tests have their own significance. The AnTutu Video Benchmark tests returned a high score of 698 points, reaching almost the top. The player scored 18147 points in the AnTutu benchmark, which is not the highest in the list but is still pretty good for a desktop Android device.
Moving on to the important read/write tests, the following write/read speeds were recorded using a 716MB file and external storage devices, through the ES File Explorer:
Source | Reading from Internal Storage (MB/sec) |
Writing To Internal Storage (MB/sec) |
USB3.0 (at USB2.0 port) | 17.07 |
20.58 |
USB3.0 (at USB3.0 port) | 27.54 |
23.87 |
100Mbit LAN | 1.46 |
7.36 |
external micro SDHC | 10.00 |
7.77 |
Wifi (2.4GHz) | 1.83 |
6.40 |
The Zidoo X9 player was fast in both the read/write tests with a storage device connected to the player's USB3.0 port.
The LAN speeds were much slower, especially when reading from the device (not very realistic scenario anyway)... The reading over network speeds were ~8.0MB/sec with a LAN connection and ~7.00MB/sec through Wifi (2.4GHz). The player also supports 5.0GHz Wi-Fi, which could improve the connection's stability and performance as well.
The microSDHC offers an extra option to expand the player's storage abilities, in case you need it.