The Ugoos AM9 Pro is here and it's redefining what an Android TV box can do in 2026! This powerhouse runs on Android 14 with the upgraded Amlogic S905X5-M processor, blazing-fast LPDDR5 RAM, and now features full Dolby Vision support — making it a major step up from the standard AM9. With HDMI 2.1b, three USB 3.0 ports, Wi-Fi 6, Gigabit Ethernet, and Ugoos's unmatched firmware update support, this box is built for enthusiasts who demand the best. Whether you're streaming 4K HDR, playing Dolby Atmos audio, or pushing the limits of Android performance, the AM9 Pro delivers.
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Timestamps:
Intro: 00:00
Unboxing: 00:57
Design and I/O Ports: 01:27
Launcher Layout & Bluetooth Remote Pairing: 02:19
Firmware and Features: 03:35
System and Hardware Info: 08:53
DRM Info / Root Access / Netflix ESN: 10:55
Mobile screen casting: 11:25
YouTube Quality: 11:51
4K Video Playback: 12:04
Dolby Atmos / DTS Audio: 14:21
3D Gaming: 17:26
Benchmarks: 18:13
Ranking Chart: 20:27
Pros and Cons (Summary): 21:25
Deals and Discounts / Outro: 22:04
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Timestamps:
Intro: 00:00
Unboxing: 00:57
Design and I/O Ports: 01:27
Launcher Layout & Bluetooth Remote Pairing: 02:19
Firmware and Features: 03:35
System and Hardware Info: 08:53
DRM Info / Root Access / Netflix ESN: 10:55
Mobile screen casting: 11:25
YouTube Quality: 11:51
4K Video Playback: 12:04
Dolby Atmos / DTS Audio: 14:21
3D Gaming: 17:26
Benchmarks: 18:13
Ranking Chart: 20:27
Pros and Cons (Summary): 21:25
Deals and Discounts / Outro: 22:04
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00:00What's happening YouTube? My name is Nick and welcome to TV box top the channel for the best
00:06reviews in Android TV boxes and accessories. In today's video I'm really pumped up and excited
00:12to finally review what might very well be the best Android TV box for 2026 and that is if no
00:19other model tops it which I doubt very much. I present to you the first official Android box
00:24running on LPDDR5 RAM from Ugoos called the Ugoos AM9 Pro. This model has got all the bells and
00:32whistles, Dolby Vision, Android 14, and all of the extensive unique chromy features that only Ugoos
00:39provides. So without wasting any more time I'll get right to it.
00:57And welcome back. So in the box you get the latest AM9 Pro model. You get a Bluetooth voice remote
01:07with a mouse feature. You get one HDMI cable. A 12V 1.67A DC power supply and USB type C
01:19power cable.
01:20A pair of external antennas. And your user manual. For design its body is made of metal with the Ugoos
01:31branding at the top. For IO you get one HDMI 2.1B port. One gigabit ethernet LAN port. One optical
01:42audio.
01:43One auxiliary port. One USB type C data transfer OTG port. A 12V USB type C power delivery port.
01:53Three USB 3.0 ports and a micro SD card reader. At the side you have your external antennas connector
02:03pins.
02:03At the front you have an infrared sensor and an LED power light and activity indicator.
02:11And below the box has four rubber feet. Its recovery button and a mask ROM button.
02:19So when you start up for the first time you will be greeted with a Ugoos startup animation.
02:25Followed by the pairing of the Bluetooth remote whichever of the two models you chose during purchase.
02:31This is done by pressing the menu button and the volume up button at the same time
02:36until the LED starts flashing and the box will pair to it automatically.
02:48Then you have the option to select between two preloaded launchers.
02:53Launcher 3. Which is more designed to be navigated with a mouse cursor or an A mouse.
03:07Launcher 3. And the other is Ulauncher.
03:10Which is Ugoosys custom launcher more designed to be navigated with a direction pad and OK button.
03:16For this review I'll be using launcher 3.
03:19So I'll set it to always to load each time I restart the box.
03:35So the Ugoos launcher 3 is one of my all time favorites.
03:39Simply because it has all of the features to navigate with a mouse cursor.
03:43Whether it's from a PC mouse or from a Bluetooth air mouse remote.
03:48You get drag and drop shortcuts.
03:50And you can also remove and uninstall apps using the drag and drop feature.
03:54You get multiple horizontal scrolling panels.
03:58And it comes with a navigation bar and full status bar with system controls.
04:03And with the navigation bar you have your recent apps feature.
04:27So it's firmware features include 4K display up to 2160p at 60Hz.
04:35And this is true 60Hz as detected by my capture card.
04:39And not 59.94Hz as seen in other models.
04:44Under advanced display settings you will find options to change
04:47its frame buffer size from 1080p to 4K 2160p.
04:52This option changes the resolution of the launcher and its entire interface.
04:57So if you need the launcher to display in true 4K resolution this is the option to do it.
05:02It also allows apps such as YouTube to play in full 4K resolution
05:06without being cropped into a 1080p frame.
05:27You can change its color mode to suit your high-end TVs up to 12-bit color depth.
05:33You have custom picture settings.
05:36Under preferred dynamic range is where you will find your advanced HDR display settings.
05:42You can set HDR always on, but now you have the option to choose which HDR display you want.
05:49Whether it's HDR10 always on, or HLG always on.
05:54Or you can disable HDR by setting it to always SDR.
05:59And for your auto HDR feature, you switch from forced conversion to match content dynamic range.
06:06If you select system preferred conversion it will turn HDR10 always on.
06:13Under format selection it shows that it has HDR10 and HLG hardware decoders built in.
06:20It does not support Dolby vision or HDR10 plus.
06:25You get auto frame rate switching.
06:28HDMI CC options.
06:31You have a button mapping feature to assign functions to the colored buttons on the remote.
06:37You can change the behavior of the menu button on the remote.
06:41You have screen rotation to portrait mode, reverse portrait and reverse landscape.
06:57You can change the speed of your USB ports.
07:01You can adjust the size and speed of the on-screen mouse cursor.
07:07Under panels and interface you can enable or disable the navigation bar or status bar.
07:14You can change the format of the recent apps window from horizontal to horizontal with perspective.
07:21You get a hardware monitor overlay feature to monitor all the parameters of the box.
07:26And you can control the speed of the UI's animation.
07:31You can enable USB microphone access.
07:35You have power key definition options.
07:43You have a root switch by the way of the Magix application.
07:47For audio you can enable or disable system sounds.
07:51You can allow apps to regulate the volume and how many steps they can regulate.
07:58You can switch its audio output from HDMI to optical audio.
08:03You can switch between USB audio usage whether it's for microphone or for outputting audio.
08:10And you have your surround sound audio options.
08:14And under enabled formats it shows that it has Dolby and DTS hardware surround sound audio decoders built in.
08:22Under storage is where you'll find your Sambra server, NFS client, and CIFS client options.
08:35As soon as I connected to the internet.
08:38I received the first of two firmware updates which is one of the main selling points of Hugo's boxes.
08:45And that is regular firmware updates or updates when necessary based on feedback from their customers.
08:54So at this point, for those of you who have seen my AM9 video may be wondering,
09:00what's the difference between that model and this updated Pro model?
09:04So let's take a look at its system and hardware information to see if we can identify any differences.
09:10The manufacturer of this chipset is Amlogic.
09:13It comes with 4GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 64GB of internal storage with Bluetooth 5.3.
09:21So the difference here is that the previous model has LPDDR4 RAM and this one has LPDDR5.
09:29Its CPU is the Amlogic S905X5-J.
09:33A quad core cortex A510 processor clocked at 2.4GHz configured in 64 bit mode.
09:41So the difference here is that it comes with Amlogic S905X5-J.
09:47Which is an upgraded CPU compared to the S905X5 in the previous model.
09:52Its display and graphics are powered by the Mali G310 GPU with support for open GLES version 3.2.
10:01Its network adapter supports dual band 2.4 plus 5G WiFi networks.
10:07Its Android version is version 14 and currently it's not rooted.
10:12But you can gain root access via the Magix application as I will show you in just a moment.
10:18Its GPU has Vulkan support API version 1.3.
10:23It has an idle CPU operating temperature of around 41 degrees Celsius.
10:29And under codecs, it comes with video decoders such as H.264, HEVC, AV1, Dolby vision, and VP9 decoding.
10:39And for surround audio you get Dolby Atmos EAC3, but I don't see any DTS-HD decoders.
10:46So the difference here is that in this model you now get Dolby vision decoding.
10:51So that's its system and hardware information.
10:55For digital rights management, in this model it comes with Google Widevine
10:59level 3 with no HDCP protection. In the previous model it had level 1 with HDCP 2.3.
11:07And for root access, the root checker app shows that it's currently not rooted out of the box.
11:13You simply head over to the settings area and enable the magic switch and restart the box.
11:18And now you will have root access.
11:25It comes with the official version of mirror cast that allows you to mirror your
11:30Android cell phones in HD 1080p quality.
11:33And here is a demonstration of me casting an Android cell phone to the box.
11:51For watching YouTube videos, you get up to 4K 2160p resolution with HDR.
12:05I will now play some HDR10, HDR10+, AV1, HLG, and Dolby vision videos.
12:13For this demonstration I'm using my custom made TV box top media player designed to detect all video
12:19formats and let's see which formats it can play.
12:22So this is HDR10.
12:48This is a Dolby vision video with PCM stereo.
13:04This is HDR10 plus, but the box does not feature that format so it plays as HDR10.
13:07This is HDR10 plus, but the box does not feature that format so it plays as HDR10.
13:22This is HDR10 with Dolby Atmos.
13:30And this is HLG.
13:46Here is another HDR10 video.
13:49Here is another HDR10 video.
13:49If you are following the development of my media player, here is a look at its settings area.
14:21Here is another HDR10 video.
14:22For surround sound audio, it can play all surround sound audio formats.
14:27However, it cannot play all of them on one media player.
14:31With the exception of DTSX that can only run on the coding media player,
14:36the others can play on my TV box top media player.
14:39This is not a fault of the media player as all the other media players has the same issue.
14:45This is a hardware decoding issue.
14:47So, this is Dolby Atmos.
15:01This is Dolby Atmos, the world's first object-based cinematic audio.
15:10This is Dolby Atmos.
15:16You get Dolby Atmos.
15:21You get Dolby Atmos.
15:33master audio.
15:45You get Dolby surround.
15:56You get Dolby through HD.
16:11And via the Kodi media player you get DTS-X.
16:42DTS-X
17:01Just remember in order for Kodi to play surround sound audio formats you have to set the settings
17:07area to export, set audio channels to 7.2 and enable audio passthrough and all its dependencies.
17:26For Android gaming even with its 64-bit architecture I would have preferred that they use the Mali-G57
17:35instead of this G310. To be quite honest it performs like the Mali-G31. So there is no real gaming
17:44improvement.
17:45Some 64-bit games even say that the chipset does not qualify. With that said games that do run, run
17:52smoothly in good quality without overheating.
18:13So I tried to install core-elec but it appears that the github page is offline at the moment.
18:20So let's take a look at some benchmarks and where it ranks on my TV box rankings chart.
18:25First the results of its RAM and internal storage read and write speeds.
18:32It has a RAM copy speed of 6539 MB per second.
18:37It's internal storage has a read speed of 201 MB per second and a write speed of 75 MB per
18:47second.
18:48Next the results of its dual WiFi 6 and Gigabit Ethernet LAN speed test.
18:54My tests revealed that its WiFi bands have excellent reception and bandwidth.
18:59The 5 GHz band achieved the maximum speed of my network of 337 MB per second.
19:07Its 2.4 GHz band also displayed excellent performance maxing out at around 136 MB per second.
19:15And its Ethernet LAN port is a gigabit LAN port. So it too achieved the maximum speed of my network.
19:22In benchmarking its Amlogic S905X5M single core and multi core threading performance, the Geekbench 5 CPU benchmark produced a score
19:32of 266 single core and 899 multi core.
19:38In benchmarking its graphics rendering performance, this is the only area where I have a bit of concern.
19:45The 3DMark Gamers benchmark wild life test produced a very high score with Vulkan support of 1266 with a very
19:55high FPS for an Android box of 7.58.
19:59However, this does not translate into high performance 64-bit Android gaming from my observation.
20:05I stand to be corrected, but I am getting similar if not the same performance as the Mali G31.
20:11And in the comprehensive AnTuTu benchmark version 11, it received a score of 346,478.
20:22So those are its benchmarks. Let's now see where it ranks on my chart.
20:27So I've updated the scores on my chart.
20:30And the new Yugoose AM9 Pro ranks at position number 5 at the time of recording this video.
20:37This is based on the latest version of the AnTuTu benchmark version 11.
20:42I give it a cautious 4 out of 5 star rating, keeping in mind my comments about its GPU performance.
20:49And like I said, I stand corrected, but they should have used the Mali G57 GPU in this model.
20:56For those who have been experiencing difficulty navigating my rankings chart on my blog, I apologize for not detecting that
21:03sooner.
21:04So the TV box rankings chart and my mini PC rankings chart both have been revamped, upgraded and restored.
21:12So see the link in the description where you can view the top ranked TV boxes for 2026.
21:17And it's also where you can compare the AM9 Pro's performance and firmware features to other boxes.
21:24So see the link in the description.
21:26In summary, the Yugoose AM9 Pro delivers the latest in Android TV box technology, firmware features, updates, and hardware performance.
21:35This model is not going to please everyone, as there are those who prefer the Android TV version with Google
21:42and Netflix certification.
21:44You will not get that from this model as it runs on the mobile version, has a 64 bit architecture,
21:50and has a root switch.
21:52So the model falls within the high performance gaming category.
21:56The only issue I have with this model is that they should have used the Mali G57 for better graphics
22:02rendering performance.
22:04So that brings to an end my review of the latest Yugoose AM9 Pro.
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